South, the Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-17
by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
Their tents were torn, their food was nearly finished, and the ship had failed to pick them up as planned. Gale-force winds blew, bitter with the cold of approaching winter. Stranded and desperate, the six men of the Northern Party faced disaster. Searching out a snow drift, they burrowed inside. Lieutenant Victor Campbell drew a line across the floor in the gloom to establish naval order: three officers on one side, the three seamen on the other. A birthday was celebrated with a carefully hoard...
Shackleton and the Lost Antarctic Expedition (Graphic Library: Disasters in History) (Graphic History)
by Blake A Hoena
International in scope, this series of non-fiction trade paperbacks offers books that explore the lives, customs and thoughts of peoples and cultures around the world.
The story of an ordinary thirty-something city girl who became the first British woman to walk to the South Pole. 'We called ourselves Plebs to the Pole. It was the first time travellers with no previous polar experience had the chance to attempt such a journey. Before our expedition, Antarctica had been sacred territory - the preserve of scientists and real explorers. No one had any idea how amateurs would perform in such extreme conditions.' In January 2000 Catharine Hartley, a thirty-four-yea...
The dramatic story of explorer Douglas Mawson and "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history" (Sir Edmund Hillary, mountaineer and explorer) For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced some of the most daunting conditions ever known to man: blistering wind, snow, and cold; the loss of his companion, dogs, supplies, and even the skin on his hands and feet. But despite constant thirst, starvation, disease, and snow blindness—he survived. Sir Douglas Mawson is rememb...
Aspects of Arctic and Sub-Arctic History
Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. In this highly anticipated sequel to his international bestseller The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with...
The Expeditions of Amundsen (Exploration Through the Ages S.) (Exploration Through the Ages)
by Richard Humble
A dramatic series telling the stories of important voyages of discovery. The books describe challenges and hardships faced by those who set out to discover new lands, new ocean passages, to open up new trade routes or to win fame or fortune. The seventh book in the "Exploration" series, this tells the story of the Norwegian explorer who was the first man to reach both the South Pole, in 1911, using sledge-dog teams, and the North Pole, in 1926, in an airship.
Surveys the history, geography, resources, environmental problems, people, and politics of the land inside the Arctic Circle.
In The Home of the Blizzard, Sir Douglas Mawson records his historic expedition to explore uncharted land in Antarctica. Pitted against formidable natural forces, he and his team faced unrelenting winds with speeds of up to two hundred miles per hour as well as freezing temperatures and day-long blizzards. They traversed the previously unexplored King George V Land directly south of Australia and collected geological samples and magnetic readings. After accident and illness led to the death of h...
Reise Um Die Erde Durch Nord-Asien Und Die Beiden Oceane in Den Jahren 1828, 1829 Und 1830. - Primary Source Edition
by Adolph Erman
