Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition
10 best books like Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition (Scott Cookman): The Terror, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu, Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy, The Worst Journey in the World, The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found, Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot, White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen's Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic, The Ice Master, Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
| Author | Dan Simmons |
| ISBN | 0316017442 |
The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic...
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,...
| Author | J. Maarten Troost |
| ISBN | 0767921992 |
With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost established himself as one of the most engaging and original travel writers around. Getting Stoned with Savages again reveals his wry wit and infectious joy of discovery in a side-splittingly funny account of life in the farthest reaches of the world....
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 | Martin W. Sandler |
| ISBN | 0763680338 |
The exciting true story of the captaincy, wreck, and discovery of the Whydah the only pirate ship ever found and the incredible mysteries it revealed.
The 1650s to the 1730s marked the golden age of piracy, when fearsome pirates like Blackbeard ruled the waves, seeking not only treasure but also...
| Author | Ken McGoogan |
| ISBN | 0786711566 |
John Rae's accomplishments, surpassing all nineteenth-century Arctic explorers, were worthy of honors and international fame. No explorer even approached Rae's prolific record: 1,776 miles surveyed of uncharted territory; 6,555 miles hiked on snowshoes; and 6,700 miles navigated in small...
White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen's Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic
| Author | Stephen R. Bown |
| ISBN | 0306822822 |
Among the explorers made famous for revealing hitherto impenetrable cultures-T. E. Lawrence and Wilfred Thesiger in the Middle East, Richard Burton in Africa-Knud Rasmussen stands out not only for his physical bravery but also for the beauty of his writing. Part Danish, part Inuit, Rasmussen made...
| 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...
Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
| Author | Stephen R. Bown |
| ISBN | 0306825198 |
The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and cost Peter the Great over one-sixth of his empire's annual revenue....
