Polar Regions category: 485 books
Ice with Everything
In climbing mountains or sailing the seas one often has to settle for less than one hoped.
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
‘For most men, as Epicurus has remarked, rest is stagnation and activity madness. Mad or not, the activity that I have been pursuing for the last twenty years takes the form of voyages to remote, mountainous regions.’
H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman’s fourteenth book describes three more of those...
by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2013
"The Worst Journey in the World" by Apsley Cherry-Garrard is the epic tale of the disastrous "Winter expedition" of the Author and his two companions- Henry Bowers and Dr Edward Wilson - all members of Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition to the South Pole, who attempted a scientific...
by David Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
His two companions dead, food and supplies vanished in a crevasse, Douglas Mawson was still one hundred miles from camp.
On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were...
by Jules Verne
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
An exhilarating narrative of an obsessed British expediter by Jules Verne. This northward excursion led by Captain Hatteras is full of life-threatening adventures and hair-breadth escapes of him and his crew. As he discovers the truth about the polar terrain this work presents amazing possibilities. A bitter-sweet ending awaits the readers in this mind-boggling thriller!
The South Pole
Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram," 1910–1912
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
The South Pole is a book by Roald Amundsen and it represents an interesting first-hand account of the Norwegian expedition's successful attempt to reach the South Pole in 1911. Amundsen spends a great deal of time talking about logistics and placing of depots in preparation for his polar attempt all...
Rowing to Latitude
Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2002
Two by sea: A couple rows the wild coasts of the far north
Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband, Doug Fesler, in a small boat of his own, she has disappeared every summer for years,...
by Bruce Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
"Nail-biting true adventure."--Kirkus Reviews
In 1909, two men laid rival claims to this crown jewel of exploration. A century later, the battle rages still. This book is about one of the most enduring and vitriolic feuds in the history of exploration. "What a consummate cur...
Roald Amundsen
La carrera hacia el Polo Sur
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Roald Amundsen, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Descubrir la biografía de Roald Amundsen, desde su infancia en Noruega hasta su muerte...
Endurance
Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age.
In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted...
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
Updated and revised to celebrate the author's 75th year
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2009
Ranulph Fiennes has travelled to the most dangerous and inaccessible places on earth, almost died countless times, lost nearly half his fingers to frostbite, raised millions of pounds for charity and been awarded a polar medal and an OBE. He has been an elite soldier, an athlete, a mountaineer, an...
by Michael Palin
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
No.1 bestseller Michael Palin's epic journey from the North Pole to the South Pole.
'The cracked and fissured ice-pack offers no comfortable reassurance - no glimmer of any reward to the traveller who has made his way to the top of the world. The Arctic Ocean, known to the Victorians as the...
Ada Blackjack
A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
From the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhabited Arctic island
In September 1921, four young men and Ada Blackjack, a diminutive 25-year-old Eskimo woman, ventured deep into the Arctic in a secret...
Alone Across the Arctic
One Woman's Epic Journey by Dog Team
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Eight sled dogs and one woman set out from Barrow, Alaska, to mush 2,500 miles. ALONE ACROSS THE ARCTIC chronicles this astounding expedition. For an entire year, Pam Flowers and her dogs made this epic journey across North America arctic coast. The first woman to make this trip solo, Pam endures...
Chasing Shackleton
Re-creating the World's Greatest Journey of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
In this extraordinary adventure memoir and tie-in to the PBS documentary, Tim Jarvis, one of the world's leading explorers, describes his modern-day journey to retrace, for the first time ever—and in period clothing and gear—the legendary 1914 expedition of Sir Ernest Shackleton.
In early...