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“david hirzel”

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  • Hold Fast: Tom Crean with Shackleton 1913-1916

    by David Hirzel ...
    There are more famous names than Tom Crean's from the "heroic age" of Antarctic exploration, but there are few stories as compelling as his. The Antarctic is a harsh place of bitter cold and darkness, where only the strong and resourceful can hope to survive. Crean was such a man. Had he weakened and failed somewhere along the way of his adventurous life, the lives of all might well have been lost ... Read more

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  • Antarctic Voyager: Tom Crean with Scott's "Discovery" Expedition 1901-1904

    by David Hirzel ...
    Go now with Tom Crean to the Antarctic in 1901. See this strange new world as he sees it, experience the cold, the danger as he did. "Antarctic Voyager" takes you along with Tom Crean, a seaman on Robert F. Scott's 'Discovery' expedition 1901-1904. No one had spent a year in the ice, this far south, no one knew at the time how men would survive in this dark, forbidding, yet beautiful new world ... Read more

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  • Sailor on Ice: Tom Crean with Scott in the Antarctic 1910-1913

    by David Hirzel ...
    There are more famous names than Tom Crean's from the "heroic age" of Antarctic exploration, but there are few stories as compelling as his. The Antarctic is a harsh place of bitter cold and darkness, where only the strong and resourceful can hope to survive. Crean was such a man. Time and again he was one of three--at times the only one--whose courage in the face of insurmountable odds saved the ... Read more

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    When Your Life Depends On It

    Extreme Decision Making Lessons from the Antarctic

    by Brad Borkan, David Hirzel ...
    Narrated by Dennis Kleinman ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 53 min

    Gold Medal winner: Best Audiobook 2022 from Wishing Shelf Awards. Finalist: Voice Arts Awards: Best Audiobook Narration - History category. Winner of multiple Book awards.Brings you right into the action of the life-and-death decisions made by early Antarctic explorers.Packed full of:Thrilling stories of survival and adventure.Incredible stories of bravery.Camaraderie and teamwork even when all ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    It Takes Two or Three - The Superpower of Small Teams

    From Hollywood to the Moon and Everything in Between

    by Brad Borkan, David Hirzel ...
    Narrated by Dennis Kleinman ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 33 min

    Everyone talks about leadership and teamwork, but where are the truly inspiring examples? Look closer, and you’ll find extraordinary small teams behind many of history’s greatest achievements.It Takes Two or Three reveals the secrets of epic teamwork. Discover how small teams shaped the world—from the women’s rights movement in the 1800s to the Wright Brothers’ first flight in the early 1900s, ... Read more

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    Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results

    How an Explorer, an Engineer and a Statesman Shaped our Modern World

    by Brad Borkan, David Hirzel ...
    Narrated by Dennis Kleinman ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 30 min

    What do you do when someone tells you, “It can’t be done”?This is the award-winning extraordinary story of three people — an explorer, an engineer and a statesman — who repeatedly proved critics and naysayers wrong.Roald Amundsen — the Norwegian explorerIsambard Kingdom Brunel — the greatest engineer the world has ever seenTeddy Roosevelt — the cowboy turned statesmanAudacious Goals, Remarkable R. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • HIDEO SASAKI: A LEGACY OF COLLABORATIVE DESIGN

    by Richard F. Galehouse ...
    Hideo Sasaki was one of the most consequential designers and educators of the twentieth century. His legacy lies in bringing the design professions of landscape architecture together with the other planning and design disciplines in his teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the professional practice that he founded, Sasaki. The author, Richard Galehouse, first a student and later a ... Read more

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    The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

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    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and heroism in the Gilded Age from the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. • “A splendid book in every way…a marvelous nonfiction thriller.” —The Wall Street JournalOn July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from San Francisco on the USS Jeanette ... Read more

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  • The Best Survival Stories Ever Told

    Edited by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Series series Best Stories Ever Told
    This collection of classic tales comprises over thirty accounts of true-life adventure taken from contemporary memoirs, letters, and journals. They span the years from 1800 to the end of the twentieth century, in a period which can be termed the modern age of exploration. Among the writers are:Ernest ShackletonDouglas MawsonSalomon AndréeSebastian SnowEd DrummondEdmund HillaryMaurice HerzogLewis ... Read more

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  • Lost Beneath the Ice

    The Story of HMS Investigator

    by Andrew Cohen ...
    When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in the 1840s, the British Admiralty launched the largest rescue mission in its history. Among the search vessels was HMS Investigator, which left England in 1850 under the command of Captain Robert McClure. While the ambitious McClure never found Franklin, he and his crew did discover the fabled Northwest Passage.Like Franklin’s ships, though, ... Read more

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  • In the Land of White Death

    An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic

    by Valerian Albanov, Jon Krakauer ...
    Translated by Alison Anderson ...
    Series series Modern Library Exploration
    “One helluva read.”—Newsweek • “Gripping.”—Outside • “Spellbinding.”—Associated Press • “Powerful.”—New YorkIn 1912, the Saint Anna, a Russian exploration vessel in search of fertile hunting grounds, was frozen into the polar ice cap, trapping her crew aboard. For nearly a year and a half, they struggled to stay alive. As all hope of rescue faded, they realized their best chance of survival might ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Ate His Boots

    The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage

    by Anthony Brandt ...
    After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled Northwest Passage. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound waters of the Canadian Arctic in search of a route, and then, after 1845, to find ... Read more

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