An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor
10 best books like An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor (Michael Smith): The Last Days of the Incas, Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe, Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival, Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842, Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals, The Worst Journey in the World, Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure, A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole, Captain Scott, Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
The Last Days of the Incas
Kim MacQuarrie lived in Peru for five years and became fascinated by the Incas and the history of the Spanish conquest. Drawing on both native and Spanish chronicles, he vividly describes the dramatic story of the conquest, with all its savagery and suspense. This authoritative, exciting history...
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage
“Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York...
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
| Author | Dean King |
| ISBN | 0316159352 |
A spectacular true odyssey through the extremes of the Sahara Desert in the early 19th century. Reader and protagonist alike are challenged into new ways of understanding culture clash, slavery and the place of Islam in the social fabric of desert-dwelling peoples.
In a calm May morning in...
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
| Author | Nathaniel Philbrick |
| ISBN | 0606334696 |
In the late 1800s America arraigned a conglomerate of six vessels who set out to map the Pacific Ocean. Nathan Philbrick describes the suffering of the crew, thirst, immobilized in the 'victim's or equatorial regions, and irascible bad tempers. Illness was prevalent.
The worst thing was the lack...
| Author | Robert Falcon Scott |
| ISBN | 0786703822 |
In November 1910, a ship called Terra Nova left New Zealand on its way south to Antarctica. On board was an international team of explorers led by Robert Falcon Scott, a man determined to be the first to reach the South Pole. A year and a half later, Scott and three members of his team died during a brutal blizzard....
The Worst Journey in the World
| Author | Apsley Cherry-Garrard |
| ISBN | 0143039385 |
The Worst Journey in the World recounts Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, the youngest member of Scott's team and one of three men to make and survive the notorious Winter Journey, draws on his firsthand experiences as well as the diaries of his compatriots...
Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure
| Author | Richard Evelyn Byrd |
| ISBN | 1559634634 |
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...
| Author | Diana Preston |
| ISBN | 0618002014 |
On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier finally found what they sought -- the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. Inside, they made a grim discovery: Scott's frozen body lay between those of two fellow explorers. They had died just...
| Author | Ranulph Fiennes |
| ISBN | 0340826991 |
This biography on Captain Scott by Ranulph Fiennes will rank in my top ten books for 2003. I have to confess that I have no in-depth knowledge on artic travel and exploration other than having read a few good books on the subject.
Having said that, out of the books that I have read on the subject...
| Author | Lennard Bickel |
| ISBN | 1586420003 |
Mawson's Will is the dramatic story of what Sir Edmund Hillary calls "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history." For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced some of the most daunting conditions ever known to man: blistering wind, snow, and cold; loss of his companion,...
| Author | Roland Huntford |
| ISBN | 0786705442 |
An amazing book on the amazing life of one of the great polar explorers. It appears that his fame has become more to the forefront in the past few years since one usually heard about Byrd and Scott but not Shackleton.
Polar exploration is often surrounded by more myth than fact and the author rights...
| Author | Frank A. Worsley |
| ISBN | 1841580635 |
This is an account of the Shackleton boat journey. The journey began in August 1914 in London and the next the world knew of Shackleton was in May 1916, when three ragged men staggered into the whaling station at Grytviken on South Georgia. On August 1, 1914, on the eve of World War I, Sir Ernest Shackleton...
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
| Author | David Roberts |
| ISBN | 0393347788 |
“An important missing story from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration.”—Laurence Gonzales, author of Deep Survival
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....
Erebus: The Story of a Ship
In his major new work, Michael Palin – former Monty Python stalwart and much-loved television globe-trotter – brings to life the world and voyages of HMS Erebus, from its construction in the naval dockyards of Pembroke, to the part it played in Ross’s Antarctic expedition of 1839–43, to its...
