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South : A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage

Ernest Henry Shackleton
Paperback - $26.95

The chief source for Alfred Lansing's bestselling "Endurance", this unparalleled story of the limits of human courage and perseverance presents Shackleton's enthralling personal account of his doomed ship and his heroic rescue of its crew. of photos ...

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South : The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-17

Ernest Henry Shackleton
Paperback - $33.95

This annotated edition of Shackleton's legendary, ill-fated Antarctic expedition features highly revealing side notes to the explorer's vivid narrative as well as dramatic archival photographs.

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South : The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917

Ernest Henry Shackleton
Paperback - $24.95

This is Shackleton's account of one of the most famous voyages of all time. In 1914, a journey began with the hopes of a first in exploration, but after the expedition's ship, Endurance, is trapped, then crushed by ice, a desperate struggle for survi ...

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South

Sir Ernest Shackleton
Paperback - $48.95

Captain Mackintosh and his party left the Aurora' on the evening of January 25. They had nine dogs and one heavily loaded sledge, and started off briskly to the accompaniment of a cheer from their shipmates. The dogs were so eager for exercise after ...

Book cover for Shawn Shallow: Rescue at the Top of the World

Rescue at the Top of the World

Shawn Shallow
Paperback - $26.95

- Meticulously recreated from century-old journals
- The greatest Arctic rescue story in history

Book cover for Susan Solomon: The Coldest March

The Coldest March : Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition

Susan Solomon
Hardcover - $75.95

This riveting book tells the tragic story of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his team who in November 1911 began a trek across Antarctica, striving to be the first to reach the South Pole. After marching 900 miles, the men found that a group of Norwe ...

Book cover for Francis Spufford: I May Be Some Time

I May Be Some Time : Ice and the English Imagination

Francis Spufford
Hardcover - $138.95

I May Be Some Time is a richly engrossing cultural history of the human obsession with ice, Eskimos, and polar exploration. When Captain Scott died on his way back from the South Pole, history became a myth embedded in both the public and private ima ...

Book cover for David Thomson: Scott, Shackleton, and Amundsen

Scott, Shackleton, and Amundsen : Ambition and Tragedy in the Antarctic

David Thomson
Paperback - $34.95

Between the middle of January and the end of March 1912 five men died in the attempt to return from the South Pole to their base on the edge of Antarctica. Their leader, the last to die and the man whose diary described their agonies was Robert Falco ...

Book cover for George E. Tyson: Arctic Experiences

Arctic Experiences : Aboard the Doomed Polaris Expedition and Six Months Adrift on an Ice-Floe

George E. Tyson
Hardcover - $41.95

In 1871 veteran navigator George Emory Tyson joined the first American expedition to explore the North Pole, but by August 1872, after the mysterious death of the Polaris' leader, Charles Francis Hall, the ice pack in which the ship was travelling be ...

Book cover for Mikhail Vodopyanov: Wings Over the Arctic

Wings Over the Arctic

Mikhail Vodopyanov
Paperback - $65.95



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