Life on the Yukon 1865-1967 : The Western Union Telegraph Expedition I

George R. Adams
Hardcover - $30.20

The Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

Caroline Alexander
Hardcover - $37.80

In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing...

Across Asia on a Bicycle : The Journey of Two American Students from Constantinople to Peking

Thomas Gaskell Allen
Paperback - $34.00

The South Pole : An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912

Roald Amundsen
Paperback - $35.30

"Amundsen was the supreme exponent of Polar technique. He towered above his rivals; he brought an intellectual approach to exploration and stood, as he still stands, the antipole to the heroic delusion.. . . The journey to the South Pole remains his...

Death in the Sahara : The Lords of the Desert and the Timbuktu Railway Expedition Massacre

Michael Asher
Hardcover - $31.50

Desert explorer Michael Asher investigates the most disastrous exploration mission in the history of the Sahara. In 1880, the French government ordered a surveying expedition for a railway that would bring the fabulous wealth of Timbuktu,...

Antarctic Destinies : Scott, Shackleton and the Changing Face of Heroism

Stephanie Barczewski
Paperback - $31.50

A study of the Antarctic explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton. As well as their most heroic expeditions, the author looks in detail at just how and why their individual reputations have evolved over the course of the last century.

Antarctic Destinies : Scott, Shackleton and the Changing Face of Heroism

Stephanie Barczewski
Hardcover - $41.60

This book looks at the two most famous expeditions of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration, Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition of 1910-12 and Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition of 1914-16. It focuses not only on the two expeditions,...

Arctic Hell-Ship : The Voyage of HMS Enterprise 1850-1855

William Barr
Hardcover - $63.00

In 1850, Richard Collinson captained the HMS Enterprise on a voyage to the Arctic via the Bering Strait in search of the missing Franklin expedition. Arctic Hellship describes the daily progress of this little-known Arctic expedition, and examines the...

Arctic Hell-Ship : The Voyage of HMS Enterprise 18501855

William Barr
Paperback - $47.90

In 1850, Richard Collinson captained the HMS Enterprise on a voyage to the Arctic via the Bering Strait in search of the missing Franklin expedition. Arctic Hellship describes the daily progress of this little-known Arctic expedition, and examines the...

One Time Fits All : The Campaigns for Global Uniformity

Ian R. Bartky
Hardcover - $71.80

"One Time Fits All" provides the first full framework for understanding attributes of civil time, which is used throughout the world today. It focuses on three components of uniform time all linked to the prime meridian at Greenwich--the International...