Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot
9 best books like Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot (Ken McGoogan): Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy, The Worst Journey in the World, Farthest North, Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition, The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909, The Ice Master, Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition, Erebus: The Story of a Ship
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
This is a new reading of the thrilling account of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded.
In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped,...
Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy
| Author | Fergus Fleming |
| ISBN | 0871138042 |
Barrow's Boys is a spellbinding account of perilous journeys to uncharted areas under the most challenging conditions. Re-creating the successes and harrowing failures of the original extreme adventurers, Fergus Fleming captures the incredibly brave, and often downright insane, passion for...
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...
| Author | Fridtjof Nansen |
| ISBN | 0375754725 |
In 1893 Nansen set sail in the Fram, a ship specially designed and built to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel with the sea's drift closer to the North Pole than anyone had ever gone before. Experts said such a ship couldn't be built and that the voyage was tantamount...
| Author | Scott Cookman |
| ISBN | 0471404209 |
It has been called the greatest disaster in the history of polar exploration. Led by Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, two state-of-the-art ships and 128 hand-picked men----the best and the brightest of the British empire----sailed from Greenland on July 12, 1845 in search of the elusive Northwest...
| Author | Pierre Berton |
| ISBN | 0670824917 |
I think sub titles for books like this should “White Men Doing Stupid Things When They Should Have Asked Natives Instead”.
Because honestly, it would have been much easier if they had just followed the Inuit.
This massive book is about the discovery and exploration of the Arctic....
| Author | Jennifer Niven |
| ISBN | 0786884460 |
The Karluk set out in 1913 in search of an undiscovered continent, with the largest scientific staff ever sent into the Arctic. Soon after, winter had begun, they were blown off course by polar storms, the ship became imprisoned in ice, and the expedition was abandoned by its leader. Hundreds of miles...
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
| Author | Paul Watson |
| ISBN | 0393355861 |
Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1845—whose two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and their crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice—with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the recent incredible discoveries of the wrecks....
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...
