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  • Shackleton's Last Voyage: The Story of the Quest

    "Shackleton's Last Voyage: The Story of the Quest" is a compelling narrative that chronicles the final expedition of the legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton. The book, authored by A. H. Macklin and Frank Wild, provides a detailed account of the challenges faced by the crew as they navigated the treacherous Antarctic waters. Through vivid descriptions and personal anecdotes, the authors bring to ... Read more

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  • Shackleton's Last Voyage

    Enriched edition. The Story of the Quest

    Shackleton's Last Voyage: Compelling Narratives from the Ends of the Earth is an enthralling anthology that captures the raw spirit of exploration and resilience. The collection weaves together an array of vivid accounts and reflections that chronicle Sir Ernest Shackleton's final expedition. Delving into themes of leadership, tenacity, and the indomitable human spirit in the face of nature's ... Read more

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  • South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917

    I decided to leave South Georgia about December 5, and in the intervals of final preparation scanned again the plans for the voyage to winter quarters. What welcome was the Weddell Sea preparing for us? The whaling captains at South Georgia were generously ready to share with me their knowledge of the waters in which they pursued their trade, and, while confirming earlier information as to the ... Read more

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  • The Great White South

    being an account of experiences with Captain Scott's South pole expedition and of the nature life of the Antarctic

    Series series BS Publishing
    Photographer Ponting joined Robert Scott's expedition to the South Pole in 1910. His remarkable book not only tells of the life among Scott's crew on board and at camp, but also provides numerous photos depicting the Antarctic landscape. Ponting also recorded, both in print and on film, habits of the native penguins and seals, and shares stories of his arrival at volcanic Mount Erebus, nearly ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Voyage of the Discovery

    Series series Classics of World Literature
    When I received the script of The Voyage of the Discovery I was amazed. I had only to read a few pages to realise that it was literature, unique of its kind . . . Scott's mind was like wax to receive an impression and like marble to retain it'.So wrote Leonard Huxley, and he was not alone in his opinion. When this account of Scott's first Antarctic expedition appeared in 1905 the reviewers ... Read more

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  • The Mammoth Book of Antarctic Journeys

    32 eye-witness accounts of adventure in the Antarctic

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Series Book 366 - Mammoth Books
    The very best writing on the Antarctic, from James Cook's eighteenth-century assertion that 'no man will ever venture further than I have done' to Lynne Cox's description of her epic, icy swim in the twenty-first century - 32 first-hand accounts of men and women challenging one of the Earth's last true wildernesses.Here you will find both legendary tales of heroism and startling contemporary ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Mammoth Book of Polar Journeys

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Series Book 385 - Mammoth Books
    Exerting a magnetic pull our imaginations, the poles have been the object of many gripping first-hand accounts of exploration - literally, journeys to the ends of the earthA passport to the last wildnernesses of Earth, this is the definitive collection of first-hand accounts of polar exploration - 50 true stories of intrepid travel through the desolate and dangerous regions of both Arctic and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Shores of the Polar Sea

    A Narrative of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6

    When the British Arctic Expedition set sail from Portsmouth on May 29, 1875, the explorers hoped to reach the highest latitude, and perhaps even approach the ever-elusive North Pole. It was believed that, should they successfully pass through Smith Sound, between Greenland and Canada's Ellesmere Island, they would encounter an Open Polar Sea free from troublesome ice. With this primary goal, three ... Read more

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  • Titanic

    by Filson Young ...
    Published a mere 37 days after the tragedy, Filson Young’s Titanic laid to rest public speculation and rumour with its firsthand account of the sinking of the great ship. For the first time since the Titanic left Southampton on April 10, 1912, the public had a full and detailed view of life on the ship, the events leading up to its collision with an iceberg late on April 14, its tragic sinking in ... Read more

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  • The Worst Journey in the World

    Series series Bybliotech Discovery
    "The Worst Journey in the World" by Apsley Cherry-Garrard is the epic tale of the disastrous "Winter expedition" of the Author and his two companions- Henry Bowers and Dr Edward Wilson - all members of Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition to the South Pole, who attempted a scientific expedition in the midst of the Antarctic Winter - in the coldest temperatures found on Planet Earth.At the behest ... Read more

    $2.49 USD

  • The Antarctic Exploration Anthology

    The Personal Accounts of the Great Antarctic Explorers

    Series series Texts of Discovery
    The frozen continent of Antarctica has always captured the imagination of explorers and adventurers from around the World, most especially in the first few decades of the 20th Century, when the race was on to be the very first person to reach the South Pole.In this carefully selected Anthology we present the personal accounts of the greatest early explorers of Antarctica: Captain Robert Falcon ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Endurance

    An Epic of Polar Adventure

    The legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of HMS Endurance.You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. "What the ice gets," replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's unflappable leader, "the ice keeps." ... Read more

    $11.99 USD