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  • The Great White South Traveling with Robert F. Scott's Doomed South Pole Expedition

    par Herbert Ponting ...
    Venture into one of the planet's most unforgiving landscapes through the eyes of Herbert Ponting, the official photographer of Robert F. Scott's legendary expedition. In The Great White South, Ponting offers readers a breathtaking blend of vivid storytelling and extraordinary visual documentation of the race to the South Pole. His eloquent narrative captures the stark beauty of Antarctica's ... En savoir plus

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  • Eyewitness Accounts With Scott in the Antarctic

    par Herbert Ponting ...
    Collections series Eyewitness Accounts
    'Mr Ponting has it in his power greatly to delight!' Lady Kathleen Scott Herbert Ponting was the photographer on Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic in 1910 - 13. Based at the expedition hut at Cape Evans, Ponting spent the summers studying the continent's wildlife and landscape. He records close encounters with orcas and leopard seals on the ice at Cape Evans, expeditions to ... En savoir plus

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  • South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition (1914-1917)

    In August of 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton set out with a crew of twenty-eight aboard the ship 'Endurance' in an effort to become the first men to cross the vast Antarctic land mass. Their adventurous tale of exploration soon became a struggle for survival when the ship was enclosed by a sea of ice which slowly crushed it leaving them stranded in a barren icy wilderness. What would follow is one of ... En savoir plus

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  • In the Kingdom of Ice

    The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

    par Hampton Sides ...
    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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Lost Beneath the Ice

    The Story of HMS Investigator

    par 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, ... En savoir plus

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  • Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

    par Richard E. Byrd ...
    Richard E Byrd (1888-1957), was an American naval officer and explorer. Originally published in 1938, ‘Alone’ provides a gripping account of his second expedition to Antarctica in 1934. Contents: Richard E. Byrd; Preface; 1933: The Idea; March: The Decision; April i: God of 2.5; April ii: The Night; May i: The intimation; May ii: The Blow; June i: Despair; June ii: The Struggle; June iii: The ... En savoir plus

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  • The Arctic Journals of John Rae

    par John Rae ...
    Collections series Classics West
    Scottish doctor and explorer John Rae is a controversial figure in the history of the Arctic. He began his career with the Hudson's Bay Company as a surgeon in Moose Factory, Ontario, where he learned to survey, live off the land, and travel great distances on snowshoes. These skills served him well when, in 1846, he was charged with completing the geography of the northern shore of North America ... En savoir plus

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  • Arctic Obsession

    The Lure of the Far North

    More than an account of the human delusion and fortitude in penetrating one of the most inhospitable areas of the world, Arctic Obsession goes beyond the gripping history of northern exploration, of the searches for the Northwest and Northeast Passages.From early medieval times to the twenty-first century, what has been the beguiling attraction of the North? What manner of men were they who boldly ... En savoir plus

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  • Franklin

    Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation

    par Andrew Lambert ...
    In 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin led a large, well equipped expedition to complete the conquest of the Canadian Arctic, to find the fabled North West Passage connecting the North Atlantic to the North Pacific. Yet Franklin, his ships and his men were fated never to return. The cause of their loss remains a mystery. In Franklin, Andrew Lambert presents a gripping account of the worst catastrophe ... En savoir plus

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  • Arctic Labyrinth

    The Quest For The Northwest Passage

    par Glyn Williams ...
    As a result of global warming and the subsequent shrinking of Arctic ice, for the first time in seafaring history a navigable Northwest Passage, linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, will open up. The possibility of seasonal shipping lanes has renewed the world's interest, and there are lessons to be learned for the next explorers striving to be the first to finally realize a sustainable and ... En savoir plus

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

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • From Far and Wide

    A Complete History of Canada's Arctic Sovereignty

    par Peter Pigott ...
    Is the Canadian North a state of mind or simply the lands and waters above the 60th parallel? In searching for the ill-fated Franklin Expedition in the 19th century, Britain's Royal Navy mapped and charted most of the Arctic Archipelago. In 1874 Canadian Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie agreed to take up sovereignty of all the Arctic, if only to keep the United States and Tsarist Russia out. But ... En savoir plus

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