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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by Alfred Lansing  
From Powells.com Days before the outbreak of World War One renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail to attempt the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. More than eighty miles from their destination, however, their...
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Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (98 Edition)
by Caroline Alexander Publisher Comments 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...
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Explorers Club Classics #04: South: The Last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and the Endurance
by Ernest Shackleton Publisher Comments The legendary expedition leader eloquently narrates his torturous two-year odyssey after his ship Endurance was crushed by a sea of ice in 1915. Shackleton and his crew confronted the most desolate place on earth--the frozen Antarctic wasteland and a...
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Water, Ice, and Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes
by Bill Green Publisher Comments "Nature writing of a very high order . . . a joyride for those who enjoy deep explorations of logic, human frailty and the laws of nature."-San Francisco Chronicle "[Bill Green's] prose rings with the elemental clarity of the ice he knows so well."-PEN...
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Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer
by Margot Morrell and Stephanie Capparell
Powells.com Staff Pick Morrell and Capparell do a wonderful job of articulating Shackleton's leadership successes in everyday terms that will resonate with decision-makers in all varieties of business. Lessons in team-building and performance management are evident throughout...
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Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica (Modern Library)
by Sara Wheeler Publisher Comments It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. For centuries, Antarctica has captured the imagination of our greatest scientists and explorers, lingering in the spirit long after their...
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Explorer: The Life of Richard E. Byrd
by Lisle A. Rose Publisher Comments Danger was all that thrilled him, Dick Byrd's mother once remarked, and from his first pioneering aviation adventures in Greenland in 1925, through his daring flights to the top and bottom of the world and across the Atlantic, Richard E. Byrd dominated...
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Mountains of Madness: a Scientist's Odyssey in Antarctica
by John Long Publisher Comments This extraordinary book is the first-person account of John Long's two unforgettable "summers" on the southern continent. Told in a highly accessible and entertaining style, "Mountains of Madness" is the account of his three-month long fossil hunt. As...
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South
by Ernest Shackleton Publisher Comments Comparable to "Into Thin Air" and "Alive, " this first-hand account of the expedition which is the subject of the "New York Times" bestseller "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Arctic Expedition" is written by the leader of the fateful expedition...
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The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition
by Susan Solomon Publisher Comments 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...
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The Worst Journey in the World
by Apsley Cherry-Garrard Publisher Comments Cherry-Garrard, who accompanied Robert Falcon Scott to the Antarctic on the explorer's doomed quest for the South Pole, recounts the unforgettable journey across forbidding, inhospitable terrain. He was also a member of the search party that ultimately...
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Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic Quest
by Ranulph Fiennes Publisher Comments The real story of Captain Robert Scott's legendary Antarctic quest is told by the man whom the Guinness Book of World Records has proclaimed "the world's greatest living explorer," Sir Ranulph Fiennes....
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Shackleton
by Roland Huntford Publisher Comments The acclaimed biographer of Robert Falcon Scott masterfully chronicles the life of one of the last great Edwardian heroes, Ernest Shackleton, from his Anglo-Irish childhood through the race for the South Pole to his last expedition to the North Pole...
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Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica
by Nicholas Johnson
Powells.com Staff Pick A personal account so full of history, hilarity, and raucous events that I can't stop rereading it! Johnson's voice is witty, insightful, and articulate as he details his fabulous and unforeseen experiences while working at McMurdo Station, a U.S. supply...
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Endurance :an epic of polar adventure
by F A Worsley Publisher Comments 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...
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Voyage Discovery V2
by Robert Falcon Scott Publisher Comments This publication reproduces in facsimile the rare, lavishly illustrated deluxe edition. Robert F. Scott is best known for his failed, fatal efforts to be the first to reach the South Pole, but his initial Antarctic expedition aboard the Discovery from...
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Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909
by Ernest Shackleton Publisher Comments Shackleton's own thrilling account of his first Antarctic expedition and astonishing march to reach the South Pole. With the same drama and adventure of Shackleton's later memoir, South, Heart of the Antarctic chronicles the first polar expedition he led...
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The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party
by Kelly Tyler-Lewis Publisher Comments The harrowing tale of the Ross Sea party, the other side of Shackleton's Endurance expedition. In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to make history by crossing the Antarctic continent. Shackleton's story is legend, but few...
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The Race to the White Continent: Voyages to the Antarctic
by Alan Gurney Synopsis In the 1830s, the forbidding Antarctic region represented the ultimate mystery. The prospect of discovering a lucrative whaling ground made this as yet uncharted and unexploited region especially enticing. This volume provides and account of three...
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Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica
by Tom Griffiths Publisher Comments Environmental historian Tom Griffiths reflects on the history of human experiences in Antarctica, taking the reader on a journey of discovery, exploration, and adventure in an unforgettable land....
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