Robins Books

THE SEVENTY GREAT JOURNEYS IN HISTORY

From the migrations out of Africa by our earliest ancestors to the latest voyages into space, an incredible team of historians, travellers and explorers brings to life seventy of humanity's most remarkable journeys. With hundreds of evocative photographs, paintings, illustrations and portraits, plus specially commissioned maps, this volume is for everyone who is fascinated by the stories and personalities of those who were there first, who explored the unexplored and who set out into the unknown, celebrating the romance and sheer thrill of travel in a way no book has done before.

WHITE HORSES OVER FRANCE

From The Camargue to Cornwall

A beautifully-written story about an equestrian journey made by the author which fulfilled a life-long dream. He and his wife bought two Camargue horses and rode them from the Mediterranean across the whole of France and back to their home in Cornwall.

SPANISH PILGRAMIGE

A Cantor to St.James

Robin Hanbury-Tenison and his wife Louella made the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain in the traditional way - riding on white horses over long-forgotten tracks. Their adventures are vividly and entertainingly recounted in this delightful and highly readable book.

WORLDS APART

An Explorer’s Life

“To have followed a dream and seen it become a reality, to have achieved more than I knew I had in me has meant more to me than the comfort and security of a conventional life.”

Robin Hanbury-Tenison’s life has been one of extremes. From the peace of his Cornish farm, he has ventured out again and again into some of the most remote and dangerous regions on earth.

But in addition to his intrepid adventures, Robin’s affinity with, and concern for, threatened tribal peoples led him to help found Survival International — and it is this intensifying battle to preserve the quality of life under threat from developers and machines that infuses his autobiography with a passion and conviction that makes it impossible to put down.

CHINESE ADVENTURE

A Ride Along the Great Wall

Explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison rode along the Great Wall of China with his wife. In the course of their journey they saw a China and its people that few foreigners have ever seen.

WORLDS WITHIN

Reflections in the Sand

At an age when most men would be content to rest on their laurels, restless Robin set off to cross the Sahara Desert on a camel. Accompanied by the legendary Tuareg tribesmen, the author wanted to journey not just into the silence of the great desert, but back to the roots of his own soul. Worlds Within is full of the adventure you would expect from such a man of action. However, it is also filled with the type of rare knowledge that was revealed to other desert travellers like Lawrence, Doughty and Thesiger

THE OXFORD BOOK OF EXPLORATION

Selected by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, described by the Sunday Times as the 'greatest explorer of the last twenty years', this is a comprehensive anthology of the writings of explorers through the ages, now fully revised and updated. The ultimate in travel writing, these are the words of those who changed the world through their pioneering search for new lands, new peoples, and new experiences. Divided into geographical sections, the book takes us to Asia with Vasco da Gama, Francis Younghusband, and Wilfred Thesiger, to the Americas with John Cabot, Sir Francis Drake, and Alexander Von Humboldt, to Africa with Dr David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley, to the Pacific with Ferdinand Magellan and James Cook, and to the Poles with Robert Peary and Wally Herbert. Driven by a desire to discover that transcends all other considerations, the vivid writings of these extraordinary people reveal what makes them go beyond the possible and earn the right to be known as explorers.

FRAGILE EDEN

A Ride Through New Zealand

Robin Hanbury-Tenison and his wife Louella explored the length of New Zealand on horseback. They entered the magic worlds of the remaining beech forests of the South Island and the even older kauri forest of the North Island. This book combines with rare sympathy the romance of the adventure story with the stark realities of twentieth-century life.