'Away at Christmas' is a collection of stories about the world's greatest explorers. From 1492 to the present day, it uses diary entries to highlight where each explorer was and what they did to celebrate the festival in some of the most remote and inhospitable places on earth. Each entry is a light-hearted but informative look at the lives of some well-known, and less well-known, navigators. A tribute to the spirit of human endeavour, this is an extraordinary collection charting the startling achievements of explorers through the centuries.