The following documents are available for download for free as a PDF, for your own reference when planning expeditions.

Photocopies can be purchased on request (excluding the Expedition Handbook).

Available for download as individual chapters

  Expedition Medicine

  Mountaineering in the Andes: a source book for climbers

  RGS-IBG Expedition Handbook

 GIS, GPS and Remote Sensing

Logistics manuals

  Tropical Forest Expeditions (PDF)

  Polar Expeditions (PDF)

  Bicycle Expeditions (PDF)

  Caving Expeditions (PDF)

  Desert Expeditions (PDF)

  Underwater Expeditions (PDF)

Field Technique manuals (Human Geography)

  Education Projects (PDF)

  MapAction Field Guide to Humanitarian Mapping

 Quick guide to Geo-Informatics (PDF)

  People-oriented Research (PDF)

  Simple Surveys (PDF)

Field Research manuals (Biological Conservation)

  Bats (PDF)

  Bird Surveys (PDF)

  Fishes (PDF)

  Insects (PDF)

  Primates (PDF)

  Reptiles and Amphibians (PDF)

  Small Mammals (PDF)