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  The White Darkness

  by Geraldine McCaughrean

  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)
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  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)
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  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.
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  South

  The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917

  by Ernest Henry Shackleton

  An illustrated account of Shackleton's last expedition to the Antarctic.
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  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)
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  The Worst Journey in the World

  by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, 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.
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  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)
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  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)
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  The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

  by 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)
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  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)
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  An Antarctic Mystery

  or, The Sphinx of the Ice Fields

  by Jules Verne

  Jules Verne is best known for such novels as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea , Around the World in 80 Days , and Journey to the Center of the Earth , but he did a great deal of other work as well -- he published two books a year for decades, and left behind an oeuvre that approaches vast. In this novel, published in this edition as An Antarctic Mystery but also known as The Sphinx of the Ice Fields, ... (more)
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  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)
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  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)
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  Edward Wilson's Nature Notebooks

  by Edward Adrian Wilson, Edward Wilson

  Edward Wilson is remembered as the artist of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-1912, led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott. The "Terra Nova" sailed via Madeira, South Trinidad, South Africa and Australia, to New Zealand; from where she set sail for the Antarctic on 24 January 1911. During the expedition Wilson studied and drew biological specimens, and made finished watercolours. The expedition reached the... (more)
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  Mawson's Will

  The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written

  by Lennard Bickel

  Australian Sir Douglas Mawson chose not to go with Robert Scott to the South Pole in 1911, but instead set out on a less prestigious expedition to chart Antarctica's coastline. Mawson was not inexperienced - in 1908 he had led an important expedition to the South Magnetic Pole - but nothing could have prepared him for what happened on this trek. Mawson's task was to chart 1,500 miles of coastline and claim it for... (more)
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  The Antarctic Murders Trilogy

  Unfinished Business: Pursuit of an Antarctic Killer

  by Theodore Jerome Cohen

  Unfinished Business: Pursuit of an Antarctic Killer is Book II of The Antarctic Murders Trilogy. It continues the story of Captain Roberto Muñoz of the Lientur and the hunt for the millions of dollars in U.S. and British cash, negotiable securities, gold coins, and jewelry that were stolen from the Banco Central de Chile following the Chilean Earthquake of May, 1960. The story of the theft and murders that... (more)
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  Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences: Book 1

  Phoenix Rising

  by Philippa Ballantine, Tee Morris

  Evil is most assuredly afoot—and Britain’s fate rests in the hands of an alluring renegade . . . and a librarian.These are dark days indeed in Victoria’s England. Londoners are vanishing, then reappearing, washing up as corpses on the banks of the Thames, drained of blood and bone. Yet the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences—the Crown’s clandestine organization whose bailiwick is the strange and... (more)
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  The Complete H. P. Lovecraft Reader (68 Stories Included)

  by H. P. Lovecraft

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  The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

  by H. P. Lovecraft

  The eBook’s table of contents is listed below. It includes the year each story was written. The Tomb (1917) Dagon (1917) Polaris (1918) Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919) Memory (1919) Old Bugs (1919) The Transition of Juan Romero (1919) The White Ship (1919) The Doom That Came to Sarnath (1919) The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919) The Terrible Old Man (1920) The Tree (1920) The Cats of Ulthar (1920) The Temple... (more)
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  Edward Wilson's Antarctic Notebooks (Antarctica)

  by David Wilson, Christopher Wilson

  Dr. Edward A. Wilson (1872-1912) is widely regarded as one of the finest artists ever to have worked in the Antarctic. Sailing with Captain Scott aboard 'Discovery' (1901-1904), he became the last in a long tradition of 'exploration artists' from an age when pencil and water-colour were the main methods of producing accurate scientific records of new lands and animal species. He combined scientific, topographical... (more)