Lodestar Books and Vertebrate Publishing are proud and delighted to announce their joint publication of a uniform, collected edition of the books of H. W. Tilman—surely Britain’s most accomplished independent explorer by both land and sea. Tilman’s seven mountaineering titles, his eight sailing titles, plus the biography High Mountains and Cold Seas by J. R. L. Anderson making sixteen volumes in all, are appearing in pairs at quarterly intervals over the two years from September 2015. Volumes one to ten have now been published, and you can buy singly, or the full set at a substantial discount.

Each pair comprises one each of the climbing and sailing books, taken in order of original publication, the first pair being Snow on the Equator, Tilman’s account of ten years’ exploration and climbing in Africa (with Eric Shipton and solo), and Mischief in Patagonia, recounting his first, ambitious expedition by sea, to make the first crossing of the Patagonian ice cap. Each book contains all of the text, photographs and maps of its first edition, and each has a new Foreword, and some an Afterword, by a present-day writer well-qualified to offer an appreciation of Tilman and the activities he himself relates with characteristic modesty and dry humour.

Sir Chris Bonington has contributed the Foreword to Snow on the Equator, and Sir Robin Knox-Johnston that for Mischief in Patagonia. Both are avowed Tilman fans—indeed they sailed and climbed together in the early 1990s in eastern Greenland, getting there aboard Sir Robin’s world-girdling yacht Suhaili. Series researcher Bob Comlay is a veteran of two Tilman voyages to Greenland in the early 1970s, and has contributed an Afterword to Mischief in Patagonia describing his own experience and impression of Tilman as both sailor and expedition leader.

Contributors to further volumes include: Doug Scott, Tom Cunliffe, John Porter, Roger Taylor, Gerda Pauler, Ed Douglas, Simon Yates, Libby Purves, Bob Shepton, Skip Novak, Colin Putt.

See the whole set: HERE

Recent releases include Nepal Himalaya
Ice With Everything in Mar 2017

In June 2017 look out for Jun 2017
Triumph and Tribulation
High Mountains and Cold Seas