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I have been in love with Titus Oates for quite a while now—which is ridiculous, since he's been dead for ninety years. But look at it this way. In ninety years I'll be dead, too, and the age difference won't matter. Sym is not your average teenage girl. She is obsessed with the Antarctic and the brave, romantic figure of Captain Oates from Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole. In fact, Oates is the... (more)

Endurance

Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

by Alfred Lansing

The astonishing saga of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's survival for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as "Time" magazine put it, "defined heroism". Alfred Lansing's scrupulously researched and brilliantly narrated book--with over 200,000 copies sold--has long been acknowledged as the definitive account of the "Endurance's" fateful trip. of photos and maps. Nationwide traveling museum exhibition.

The Worst Journey in the World

by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Only the writings of T.E. Lawrence, Sir Richard Burton, and Ernest Shackleton rank with this harrowing memoir by Cherry-Garrard, who accompanied Robert Falcon Scott to the Antarctic on the explorer's doomed quest for the Pole and who was in the party that ultimately discovered Scott's frozen body. This classic of exploration and adventure also includes the original Introduction by the author.

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

by Caroline Alexander

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 on foot of the Antarctic continent. Weaving a treacherous path through the freezing Weddell Sea, they had come within eighty-five miles of their destination when... (more)

Emperors of the Ice: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in the Antarctic, 1910-13

Emperors of the Ice: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in the Antarctic, 1910-13

by Richard Farr

Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard has always dreamt of becoming an explorer. So in the spring of 1910, when Captain Robert Falcon Scott offers young “Cherry” the position of Assistant Zoologist aboard the Terra Nova , Cherry considers himself the luckiest man alive. Cherry’s luck, however, will soon change. Far off in the icy unknown of Antarctica, where temperatures plummet below –77°F, exploration is... (more)

Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

by Richard Evelyn Byrd

When Admiral Richard E. Byrd set out on his second Antarctic expedition in 1934, he was already an international hero for having piloted the first flights over the North and South Poles. His plan for this latest adventure was to spend six months alone near the bottom of the world, gathering weather data and indulging his desire ?to taste peace and quiet long enough to know how good they really are.? But early on... (more)

Shackleton's Stowaway

by Victoria McKernan

On October 26, 1914, Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance set sail from Buenos Aires in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in exploration: the crossing of the Antarctic continent. The crew stood on deck to watch the city fade away. All but one. Eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow hid below in a locker. But the thrill of stowing away with the legendary explorer would soon turn to fear. Within months, the Endurance,... (more)

Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition: The Remarkable Journal of Shackleton's Polar-Bound Cat

Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition: The Remarkable Journal of Shackleton's Polar-Bound Cat

by Caroline Alexander

The carpenter has a very fine cat who is known as "Mrs. Chippie"... -- from the diary of Commander F. A. Worsley, captain of Shackleton's Endurance When Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance became trapped in the Antarctic ice, all twenty-nine members of the crew were pushed to their limits of survival, including Mrs. Chippy, the ship's estimable cat. Fortunately for posterity, Mrs. Chippy left a diary of... (more)

South: The Endurance Expedition

by Ernest Henry Shackleton

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO, OBE (1874-1922) was an Irish explorer of Anglo-Irish ancestry. He was a member of four Antarctic expeditions, three of which he led. After the Nimrod Expedition, 1907-09, he was knighted for his achievement in establishing a record furthest south latitude at 88°23'S, 97 nautical miles (180 km), from the South Pole. He is most noteworthy for leading the unsuccessful Imperial... (more)

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Penguin Classics)

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Penguin Classics)

by John Chatty, Edgar Allan Poe

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is Poe's only novel and his "greatest work" (Jorge Luis Borges). Reading a newspaper account in 1836 of a shipwreck and subsequent rescue of two men on board, Edgar Allan Poe found the germ of the story he would develop into The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket --his classic gothic sea novel. Published in 1838, this rousing sea adventure follows a... (more)

Voyaging: Southward from the Strait of Magellan

Voyaging: Southward from the Strait of Magellan

by Rockwell Kent

The 75th anniversary printing of the captivating story of Kent's journey to Tierra del Fuego.

My Season With Penguins: An Antarctic Journal

My Season With Penguins: An Antarctic Journal

by Sophie Webb

What is it like to live in a tiny polar haven for two months? To paint penguins outdoors in freezing weather? To be flipper-slapped by a bird whose wings are powerful enough to propel it swiftly through frigid waters? To look into the oddly expressive eyes of a penguin chick? With charming watercolors and intriguing journal entries, this book inspires our curiosity. Sophie Webb gives readers a vivid, frank,... (more)

The Frozen Ship: The Histories and Tales of Polar Exploration

The Frozen Ship: The Histories and Tales of Polar Exploration

by Sarah Moss

This thought-provoking examination of the most influential and popular accounts of polar exploration—from Viking settlers and Renaissance conquerors to expeditions led by such famous explorers as Ernest Shackleton, Richard Byrd, and Roald Amundsen—emphasizes themes of endurance, greed, obsession, and self-sacrifice in tales that have captured the popular imagination for centuries. The stories that consider the... (more)

Darkness on the IceLois Tilton

Darkness on the Ice

by Lois Tilton

Wolff--a Nazi SS officer and a vampire--thirsts for human blood like never before when he is assigned to a weather station in Greenland, and with enemies in scarce supply, he begins feeding on his fellow Germans. Original.

Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic (Adrenaline Classic Series)

Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic (Adrenaline Classic Series)

by Lennard Bickel

The drama of Shackleton's Antarctic survival story overshadowed the other expedition. Launched by the famous explorer (and led by Captain Aeneas Mackintosh), its purpose was to lay supply depots across the Great Ross Ice Shelf in preparation for the Endurance expedition. Despite completing the longest sledge journey in polar history (199 days) and enduring near unimaginable deprivation, this heroic band... (more)

Discovery of the North Pole By Dr. Frederick A. Cook and Commander Robert E. Peary U. S. .N.J. Martin (edited by) Miller

Discovery of the North Pole By Dr. Frederick A. Cook and Commander Robert E. Peary U. S. .N.

by J. Martin (edited by) Miller

Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure

by Frank Arthur Worsley

The legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of HMS Endurance. "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." It did not,... (more)

Below the Convergence

by Alan Gurney

The image of a huge southern continent has haunted the imaginations of geographers throughout history. Not until the second of his great voyages in 1773 did Captain James Cook lay the theory to rest. This book tells the story of British, American and Russian expeditions, from the astronomer Edmond Halley's voyage in the "Paramore" in 1699 to the sealer John Balleny's 1839 voyage in the "Eliza Scott", in search of... (more)

Arctic & Antarctic (Eyewitness Books)

by Barbara Taylor

Discover the icy wastes of the polar regions and the remarkable plants and animals that survive in such hostile conditions. Here is an exciting and informative guide to the vast, icy wastes at the ends of the earth. Superb color photographs of snowy mountains and frozen seas, rare animals and plants, and the teeming life on and under the ice offer a unique "eyewitness" view of our planet's polar wilderness.... (more)

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Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

by Alfred Lansing

by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

by Caroline Alexander

by Richard Farr

by Richard Evelyn Byrd

by Victoria McKernan

by Caroline Alexander

by Ernest Henry Shackleton

by John Chatty, Edgar Allan Poe

by Rockwell Kent

by Sophie Webb

by Sarah Moss

by Lois Tilton

by Lennard Bickel

by J. Martin (edited by) Miller

by Frank Arthur Worsley

by Alan Gurney

by Barbara Taylor

by L. Harrison Matthews