Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
by Ranulph Fiennes and No Author Listed
Ranulph Fiennes has travelled to the most dangerous and inaccessible places on earth, almost died countless times, lost nearly half his fingers to frostbite, raised millions of pounds for charity and been awarded a polar medal and an OBE. He has been an elite soldier, an athlete, a mountaineer, an explorer, a bestselling author and nearly replaced Sean Connery as "James Bond". In his autobiography he describes how he led expeditions all over the world and became the first person to travel to bot...
Chris Hill undertook a unique one-man journey that took him through eight Arctic countries over a period of two years. The expedition began in Alaska, USA, and ended one dark polar night in the Russian Arctic. He covered over 65,000 miles using whatever transport was available, from aeroplanes to skidoos. On his travels he met Eskimos (Inuit), Lapps (Saami), North American Native peoples and many Russian ethnic groups - people from all walks of life. He was struck by the tremendous warmth and ho...
The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: Antarctic (Mammoth Books)
by John Keay
Farthest South - Ernest Henry ShackletonBorn in Ireland, Shackleton joined the merchant navy before being recruited for Captain Scott's 1901 expedition to Antarctica. He was with Scott on his first attempt to reach the South Pole and, though badly shaken by the experience, realized that success was now feasible. In 1907, with a devoted team but little official support, he launched his own expedition. A scientific programme gave it respectability but Shackleton was essentially an adventurer, begu...
The Heart of the Antarctic (Annotated, Large Print) (Sastrugi Press Classics)
by Ernest Shackleton
Reise um die Erde durch Nord-Asien und die beiden Oceane in den Jahren 1828 bis 1830
by Adolph Erman
Michael Cosgrove had a beautiful family, a successful career, and a lovely Southern California home overlooking the Pacific Ocean. At the age sixty, he decided to leave that all behind to sail around the world. In spite of his romanticized vision of rugged individualism and salty tales to share with his grandchildren, Cosgrove quickly realizes that sailing around the world isn't going to be as easy as he'd imagined. From a psychotic crewmate, sleep deprivation, and mental breakdowns, to stormy...
The Conquest of the Poles and Modern Adventures in the World of Ice
by Alfred Judd
The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-13
by Apsley Cherry-Gerrard
The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2
by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the admiral's vigilant censorship or the control of his heirs and friends. With this study Eugene Rodgers provides a scrupulously honest and objective account of Byrd's 1929 expedition to Antarctica.Without discrediting the expedition's success or B...
Wanderjahre Eines Jungen Hamburger Kaufmannes: Eine Reise Um die Erde in 1000 Tagen (Classic Reprint)
by Oswald Kunhardt
Forgotten Footprints: Lost Stories in the Discovery of Antarctica
by John Harrison
Hard on the heels of his masterful and critically acclaimed Wales Book of the Year, Cloud Road: A Journey Through the Inca Heartland, John Harrison's Forgotten Footprints is the untold story of the sailors, sealers and eccentrics who discovered the last continent: Antarctica. A thrilling record of lost triumph and tragedy, a saga of adventure and ambition against all odds, and a compelling insight into extraordinary personalities and the times that shaped them, Forgotten Footprints captures the...