Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals
10 best books like Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals (Robert Falcon Scott): Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe, Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842, The Worst Journey in the World, Farthest North, No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb, Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure, An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor, Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written, South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917
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...
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...
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...
No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb
| Author | Felice Benuzzi |
| ISBN | 1558218769 |
Let me begin by stating that I am a climber and have a desire for adventure; sure, those might seem to go hand in hand, but how many climbers are willing to suffer in their thirst for adventure? My suffering has been hardly that, but the limited hardship I've endured has brought an appreciation for those...
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 | 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,...
THE DEFINITIVE AND SPELLBINDING RECORD OF SHACKLETON'S LEGENDARY ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, IMMORTALIZED ON FILM BY PIONEERING PHOTOGRAPHER FRANK HURLEY Sir Ernest Shackleton's trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914-1917 was one of the great feats of human endurance -- one vividly captured in the powerful...
| Author | Roald Amundsen |
| ISBN | 1841582069 |
At last we got away, on October 19. The weather for the past few days had not been altogether reliable; now windy, now calm - now snowing, now clear: regular spring weather, in other words... With this matter of fact sentence begins one of the most famous journeys in all exploration - Amundsen's conquest...
| 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...
