Books in the H.W. Tilman: The Collected Edition series

Mischief among the Penguins is H.W. Tilman's account of his voyage to the Southern Ocean island groups of Crozet and Kerguelen, on his fifty-year-old wooden pilot cutter Mischief.

It's 1938, the British have thrown everything they've got at Everest but they've still not reached the summit. War in Europe seems inevitable; the Empire is shrinking. Still reeling from failure in 1936, the British are granted one more permit by the Tibetans. Mount Everest 1938 by H.W. Tilman is the account of this pioneering expedition.

Mostly Mischief's ordinary title belies extraordinary voyages made by H.W. Tilman in both Arctic and Antarctic waters, including the first ascent of a mountain to start below sea level.

In Mischief's Wake gives H.W. Tilman's account of the loss of Mischief, the pilot cutter in which he had sailed over 100,000 miles to high latitudes in both Arctic and Antarctic waters.

The circumnavigation of Spitsbergen is the first of three voyages described in H.W. Tilman's final book. Triumph and Tribulation closes his literary legacy, a testament to a remarkable life.

The scope of H.W. 'Bill' Tilman's When Men & Mountains Meet is broad, covering his disastrous expedition to the Assam Himalaya, a small exploratory trip into Sikkim, and his wartime heroics.