Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
10 best books like Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written (Lennard Bickel): The Last Days of the Incas, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe, Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival, Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, 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, Farthest North, Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure
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...
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,...
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...
Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
| Author | Sara Wheeler |
| ISBN | 0375753389 |
It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. For centuries, Antarctica has captured the imagination of our greatest scientists and explorers, lingering in the spirit long after their return. Shackleton called it "the last great...
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...
| 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...
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 | Michael Smith |
| ISBN | 1848890532 |
The story of the remarkable Tom Crean who ran away to sea aged 15 and played a memorable role in Antarctic exploration. He spent more time in the unexplored Antarctic than Scott or Shackleton, and outlived both. Among the last to see Scott alive, Crean was in the search party that found the frozen body....
| 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...
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Exploration)
| Author | Roland Huntford |
| ISBN | 0375754741 |
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning writer Roland Huntford re-examines every detail of the great race to the South Pole between Britain's Robert...
