A Biography
Author: David Day
A groundbreaking history of human interaction with Antarctica, the last continent on earth. For centuries it was suspected that there must be an undiscovered continent in the southern hemisphere. But explorers failed to ... |
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Diaries, 26 November 1910-29 March 1912
Author: Captain Robert Falcon Scott
Scott of the Antarctic's amazing diary of the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition in which he perished along with Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans after reaching the South Pole behind Roald Amundse ... |
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The Year the World Discovered Antarctica
Author: Chris Turney
"The South Pole discovered" trumpeted the front page of "The Daily Chronicle" on March 8, 1912, marking Roald Amundsen's triumph over the tragic Robert Scott. Yet behind all the headlines there was a much bigger story. A ... |
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Author: Bal Gangadhar Tilak
The idea of a lost ancient civilization located at the North Pole at a time when its climate was friendlier to human habitation is suggested in many of the world's oldest myths and sacred scriptures. Drawing upon his vas ... |
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Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
Author: Edward J. Larson
Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, "An Empire of Ice" presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration. Retold with added information, it's the first book t ... |
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Author: Peter FitzSimons
Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December, 1911, he led an expedition from Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below, 2000 miles of which had ... |
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A Tale of Loss and Courage in Antarctica
Author: Apsley Cherry-Garrard
The story of 24-year-old Cherry-Garrard's experience on Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to the South Pole in 1910. |
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Resistance at the Tipping Point
Author: Subhankar Banerjee
A powerful collection of voices and images from the frontlines of the war against ecological devastation in the Arctic. First-person narratives from nearly prominent activists, writers and researchers who address issues ... |
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Author: Robert Scott
A world of words has been written about this book, and none of them got it completely right! For while this is certainly the true story of how Captain Scott and his team of British explorers died trying to reach the Sout ... |
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Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in Search of De Long and the Jeannette
Author: John Muir & William Frederic Badae
In the spring of 1881, the steamship Thomas Corwin began a daring voyage of 15,000 nautical miles into treacherous Arctic seas to search for captain G. W. De Long and his ship Jeannette, which had left San Francisco two ... |
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Conflict and Cooperation in the Circumpolar North
Author: Oran R. Young
Long recognized by naturalists and adventurers as a dramatically unique region, the Arctic has recently emerged as an area of increasing political, strategic, and economic importance. The Arctic is both one of the world' ... |
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Summers in Antarctica
Author: David G Campbell
THE CRYSTAL DESERT: SUMMERS IN ANTARCTICA is the story of life's tenacity on the coldest of Earth's continents. It tells of the explorers who discovered Antarctica, of the whalers and sealers who despoiled it, and of the ... |
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The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition
Author: Leonard F Guttridge
"As fascinating and exciting as any adventure novel."-The Atlantic Monthly "Adventure aplenty here, not to mention execution, mutiny, starvation, suicide, and cannibalism."-Salon.com "Will easily net the aficionados of a ... |
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An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram" 1910-1912
Author: Roald Amundsen
An account of the first expedition to reach the South Pole, by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. Losing the race to the North Pole to the American Robert Peary, Amundsen turned to the South Pole instead, and reached it ... |
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The Remarkable Women Behind the World's Most Daring Explorers
Author: Kari Herbert
Polar explorers were the superstars of the "heroic age" of exploration, a period spanning the Victorian and Edwardian eras. In this engaging book, author Kari Herbert explores the unpredictable, often heartbreaking lives ... |
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Ice and the English Imagination
Author: Francis Spufford
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 b ... |
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Ambition and Tragedy in the Antarctic
Author: David Thomson
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 ... |
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The Jeannette Expedition's Quest for the North Pole
Author: Leonard F Guttridge
A superb account of the American Navy's boldest and most tragically ill-fated effort to reach the North Pole. "A gripping tale,"--The Washington Post "Truly exciting,"--The Atlantic Monthly "Beautifully executed narrativ ... |
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Author: Pamela R. Stern
The approximately 150,000 Inuit are indigenous to four nations - Denmark (Greenland), Canada, the United States (Alaska), and Russia - and thus have had very different colonial experiences and participate as citizens of ... |
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An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic
Author: Valerian Albanov
In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prove even more disastrou ... |
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