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Chasing Shackleton: Re-creating the World's Greatest Journey of Survival

10 best books like Chasing Shackleton: Re-creating the World's Greatest Journey of Survival (Tim Jarvis): The Empty Kingdom, Disenchanted: The Trials of Cinderella, Pagan's Vows, Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage that Redrew the Map of the New World, Shackleton's Boat Journey, The Sonnets, In the Valley of the Kings: Howard Carter and the Mystery of King Tutankhamun's Tomb, The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580, An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC - AD 409, Revolution on the Hudson: New York City and the Hudson River Valley in the American War of Independence

The Empty Kingdom
AuthorElizabeth E. Wein
ISBN0670062731
In The Lion Hunter, Telemakos, the half-British, half-Aksumite grandson of King Arthur, was sent for his safety to stay with one of Aksum's former enemies. When Abreha, ruler of Himyar, allegedly the boy's protector, catches him in the midst of what appears to be treachery, he sentences him to a fate...
Disenchanted: The Trials of Cinderella
AuthorMegan Morrison
Ella Coach has one wish: revolution. Her mother died working in a sweatshop, and Ella wants every laborer in the Blue Kingdom to receive fairer treatment. But to make that happen, she'll need some high-level support . . .

Prince Dash Charming has one wish: evolution. The Charming Curse forced...
Pagan's Vows
AuthorCatherine Jinks
ISBN0763627542
"Jinks again displays an amazing knack for blending utterly convincing period detail, earthy wisecracking, and profound respect for courtly and spiritual ideals."--BULLETIN OF THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Having renounced the sword, Pagan and Lord Roland arrive at the Abbey of St. Martin...
Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage that Redrew the Map of the New World
AuthorDouglas Hunter
A bold new account of explorer Henry Hudson and the discovery that changed the course of history.

The year 2009 marks the four-hundredth anniversary of Henry Hudson's discovery of the majestic river that bears his name. Just in time for this milestone, Douglas Hunter, sailor, scholar, and...
Shackleton's Boat Journey
AuthorFrank A. Worsley
ISBN1841580635
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...
The Sonnets
AuthorJorge Luis Borges
ISBN0143106015
 

This landmark collection brings together for the first time in any language all of the sonnets of Jorge Luis Borges. More intimate and personally revealing than his fiction, and more classical in form than the inventive metafictions that are his hallmark, the sonnets reflect Borges in...
In the Valley of the Kings: Howard Carter and the Mystery of King Tutankhamun's Tomb
AuthorDaniel Meyerson
In 1922, the British archaeologist Howard Carter opened King Tutankhamun’s tomb, illuminating the glories of an ancient civilization. And while the world celebrated the extraordinary revelation that gave Carter international renown and an indelible place in history, by the time of his death,...
The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580
AuthorR. Samuel Bawlf
ISBN0802714056
On September 26, 1580, Francis Drake sailed his ship, the Golden Hinde, into Plymouth Harbor on the southwest coast of England. He had long been given up for lost, and rumors quickly circulated about where he had been on his three-year round-the-world voyage, and about the plunder he had brought home...
An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC - AD 409
AuthorDavid Mattingly
ISBN0140148221
The definitive history of Roman Britain

In the first major narative history of the subject in more than a generation, David Mattingly brings life in Britain during four hundred years of Roman domination into vivid relief. Drawing on a wealth of new research and cutting through the myths and...
Revolution on the Hudson: New York City and the Hudson River Valley in the American War of Independence
AuthorGeorge C. Daughan
ISBN0393245721
The untold story of the fight for the Hudson River Valley―the control of which, both sides firmly believed, would determine the outcome of the Revolutionary War.

No part of this country was more important or contested during the American Revolution than New York City, the Hudson River,...
Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans
AuthorMalcolm Gaskill
In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible...
Man of War: My Adventures in the World of Historical Reenactment
AuthorCharlie Schroeder
ISBN1594630917

Confederates in the Attic meets The Year of Living Biblically in a funny and original memoir

In Arkansas, there is a full-scale Roman fort with catapults and ramparts. In Colorado, nearly a hundred men don Nazi uniforms to fight the battle of Stalingrad. On the St. Lawrence River, a group...
The Vast Unknown: America's First Ascent of Everest
AuthorBroughton Coburn
ISBN0307887146
By the author of the bestseller Everest: Mountain Without Mercy , this chronicle of theiconic first American expedition to Mt. Everest in May1963--published to coincide with the climb's 50thanniversary--combines riveting adventure, a perceptive analysis ofits dark and terrifying historical...
The European Discovery of America, Vol 1: The Northern Voyages, 500-1600
AuthorSamuel Eliot Morison
ISBN0195082710
The late Samuel Eliot Morison, a former U.S. Navy admiral, was also one of America's premier historians. Combining a first-hand knowledge of the sea and transatlantic travel with a brilliantly readable narrative style, he produced what has become nothing less than the definitive account of the great...
Scholar's Plot
AuthorHilari Bell
ISBN1634436784
I was done with being a squire…

When squire Fisk quarreled with his knight errant, Michael Sevenson, neither of them wanted to meet again. So of course, just six weeks later they find themselves in side-by-side cells, when Michael is accused of murdering the man who got his brother Benton...
A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
AuthorJohn Mack Faragher
ISBN0393328279
In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right...
The Sindbad Voyage
AuthorTim Severin
ISBN0349109958
Perhaps the greatest fictional sailor of them all. But could his amazing voyages, recounted in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, be recreated in the modern world? Or were they just the stuff of legend? Tim Severin was determined to find out. After three years of research, he created a precise...
Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe
AuthorAndrew Dickson
ISBN1847922457
Anti-apartheid activist, Bollywood screenwriter, Nazi pin-up, hero of the Wild West: this is Shakespeare as you have never seen him before.

From the sixteenth-century Baltic to the American Revolution, from colonial India to the skyscrapers of modern-day Shanghai, Shakespeare’s...
Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage
AuthorKathleen Winter
ISBN1770893997
The long-awaited follow up to Annabel and Kathleen Winter’s first work of narrative nonfiction.

In 2010, bestselling author Kathleen Winter took a journey across the storied Northwest Passage, among marine scientists, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and curious passengers....
Hostile Waters
AuthorPeter A. Huchthausen
ISBN0312966121
As the Cold War drew to a close, a Soviet submarine armed with fifteen nuclear missiles suffered a crippling accident, coming within moments of an apocalyptic meltdown that could have devastated the eastern seaboard of the United States. Although our own government-all the way up to the White House-was...
Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
AuthorGlyn Williams
ISBN0520266277
The elusive dream of locating the Northwest Passage—an ocean route over the top of North America that promised a shortcut to the fabulous wealth of Asia—obsessed explorers for centuries. While global warming has brought several such routes into existence, until recently these channels were...
Stalking the Red Bear: The True Story of A U.S. Cold War Submarine's Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union
AuthorPeter Sasgen
ISBN0312380232
Thrilling submarine espionage and an inside look at the U.S. Navy's "silent service" "Stalking the Red Bear," for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commanding officer of a nuclear submarine during the Cold War--the one man aboard a sub who makes the critical...
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