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  • Polar Wives

    The Remarkable Women behind the World's Most Daring Explorers

    by Kari Herbert ...
    The lives and adventures of seven intrepid women are revealed in "this gem of a book . . . as captivating as the northern landscape itself" ( Portland Book Review).Polar explorers were the superstars of the "heroic age" of exploration, a period spanning the Victorian and Edwardian eras. In Polar Wives, Kari Herbert reveals the unpredictable, often heartbreaking lives of seven remarkable women ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Search of the South Pole

    by Huw Lewis-Jones, Kari Herbert ...
    In 1911 the world was watching, waiting, hoping, attention focused on a desolate spot at the very end of the earth, as two men raced to conquer the South Pole. A hundred years after Roald Amundsen's triumph and Robert Scott's tragic demise, our fascination with the Antarctic remains as acute as ever. On the centenary of their epic expeditions, this book traces our search for the South Pole, from ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • An Unsung Hero

    by Michael Smith ...
    The story of the remarkable Tom Crean who ran away to sea aged 15 and played a memorable role in Antarctic exploration. He spent more time in the unexplored Antarctic than Scott or Shackleton, and outlived both. Among the last to see Scott alive, Crean was in the search party that found the frozen body. An unforgettable story of triumph over unparalleled hardship and deprivation. ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mawson

    And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen

    by Peter FitzSimons ...
    Sir Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, remains Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, his Australasian Antarctic Expedition left Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below Australia, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a human foot. He was on his way to fulfil a national dream he had first conceived three years earlier, while on his first ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Titanic

    by Rupert Matthews ...
    'Goodbye Miss Young. Good luck to you and don't forget to remember me to the folks back home.'Major Archibald Butt (1865-1912)The sinking of the Titanic on her maiden voyage in 1912 is one of the most dramatic stories in maritime history. The largest passenger steamship in the world, fitted with more advanced safety features than any of her rivals, she was proclaimed to be virtually unsinkable ... Read more

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  • Titanic: History in an Hour

    by Sinead Fitzgibbon ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago in 1912, and the subsequent deaths of over 1,500 passengers, sent shock waves around the world. Never before or since has a maritime disaster in a time of peace had such an impact.TITANIC: HISTORY IN AN HOUR is an entertaining and well researched account of the events leading up to the sinking of this ... Read more

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  • Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

    The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

    by David Roberts ...
    His two companions dead, food and supplies vanished in a crevasse, Douglas Mawson was still one hundred miles from camp.On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Loss Of The S.S. Titanic

    by Lawrence Beesley ...
    The Loss of the S.S. Titantic is Lawrence Beesley’s compelling first-person account of the tragic sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic on its maiden voyage in April 1912. Published amid the continued media frenzy a scant nine weeks following the tragedy, The Loss of the S.S. Titanic draws on Beesley’s experience as a second-class passenger and survivor, and, because of its rich detail and unique ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Loss of the Titanic: I Survived the Titanic

    I Survived the Titanic

    by Lawrence Beesley ...
    A grieving world has already recognised Lawrence Beesley as the chief recorder of the Titanic wreck. The sports master at an English public school, who was going West for a tennis tournament, he had no special qualifications for performing the task that fell to him alone out of nearly a thousand survivors but he brought to bare a splendid self-possession upon his observation of the whole sad story ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • South! (Illustrated)

    by Sir Ernest Shackleton ...
    In 1914, as Europe braces for an unfathomably deadly war, explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets sail for Antarctica to do the impossible: traverse the continent. He has a ship (the aptly named Endurance), a head brimming with optimism, and 28 men willing to follow him on an expedition across some of the most treacherous terrain on the planet. But Shackleton’s optimism doesn’t last long. Despite his ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Titanic

    by Rupert Matthews ...
    'Goodbye Miss Young. Good luck to you and don't forget to remember me to the folks back home.'Major Archibald Butt (1865-1912)The sinking of the Titanic on her maiden voyage in 1912 is one of the most dramatic stories in maritime history. The largest passenger steamship in the world, fitted with more advanced safety features than any of her rivals, she was proclaimed to be virtually unsinkable ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Endurance

    An Epic of Polar Adventure

    by Frank Arthur Worsley ...
    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