Mawson's Will : The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written

Lennard Bickel
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MAWSON'S WILL is the dramatic story of what Sir Edmund Hillary calls "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history." For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced some of the most daunting conditions ever known to man: blister ...

Shackleton's Forgotten Men : The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic

Lennard Bickel
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A true story of the heroic group that was to lay supplies across the Great Ross Ice Shelf in preparation for the Endurance expedition. Launched by Shackleton, and led by Captain Aenaes Mackintosh, the team accomplished most of their mission, but all ...

The North Pole : A Narrative History

Anthony Brandt
Paperback - $26.95

"A few toes aren't much to give to achieve the Pole," observed Robert Peary, but as Anthony Brandt's gripping new anthology shows, much more was at risk for the men who tested the limits of endurance to reach the top of the world.

Drawing on the ex ...

The South Pole : A Historical Reader

Anthony Brandt
Paperback - $26.95

The words of the great explorers of Antarctica--James Cook, Ernest Shackleton, Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen and Richard Byrd--are gathered together in this gripping narrative history of the race to reach the South Pole.

The Worst Journey in the World

Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Paperback - $29.95

"The Worst Journey in the World" recounts Robert Falcon Scotts ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrardthe youngest member of Scotts team and one of three men to make and survive the notorious Winter Journeydraws on his firsthand ...

The Worst Journey in the World : A Tale of Loss and Courage in Antarctica

Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Paperback - $47.95

The story of 24-year-old Cherry-Garrard's experience on Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to the South Pole in 1910.

A Brief History of the Vikings : The Last Pagans or the First Modern Europeans?

Jonathan Clements
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Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their Scandinavian homeland to trade and raid along the coasts of Europe. Their influence extended from Newfoundland to Baghdad, their battles were as far-flung as Africa and the Arct ...

Ice Blink : The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition

Scott Cookman
Hardcover - $41.95

Two of the most advanced ships of the time.
129 handpicked men.
A commander who had survived three previous Arctic trips.
Lost without a trace.
What happened?

For a century and a half, the question of what happened to the Franklin ...

Ice Blink : The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition

Scott Cookman
Paperback - $32.95

Led by Arctic explorer Franklin, two ships and 128 men sailed from Greenland in 1845, to find the Northwest Passage. Fourteen days later, they were seen for the last time. What happened has remained an mystery. Drawing upon original research, Cookman ...

Our Lost Explorers : The Narrative of the Jeanette Arctic Expedition

George W. DeLong
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