Shackleton
10 best books like Shackleton (Roland Huntford): Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom, Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals, Levels of Life, A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole, An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor, Shackleton's Boat Journey, The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak, The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound, Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
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,...
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
| Author | Katherine Eban |
| ISBN | 0062338803 |
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From an award-winning journalist, an explosive narrative investigation of the generic drug boom that reveals fraud and life-threatening dangers on a global scale—The Jungle for pharmaceuticals
Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs...
| 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....
| Author | Julian Barnes |
| ISBN | 0385350775 |
Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart.
"You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed..."
One of the judges who awarded...
| Author | Diana Preston |
| ISBN | 0618002014 |
On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier finally found what they sought -- the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. Inside, they made a grim discovery: Scott's frozen body lay between those of two fellow explorers. They had died just...
| 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 | Frank A. Worsley |
| ISBN | 1841580635 |
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 Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak
The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna- - The World's Most Deadly Peak Book Description Ed Viesturs has contributed to The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna- - The World's Most Deadly Peak as an author.ED VIESTURS still climbs...
The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound
| Author | Jack Huberman |
| ISBN | 1560259698 |
Surprisingly, no book of quotations on God and religion by atheists and agnostics exists. Luckily, for the millions of American nonbelievers who have quietly stewed for years as the religious right made gains in politics and culture, the wait is over. Bestselling author Jack Huberman's zeitgeist...
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
| Author | David Roberts |
| ISBN | 0393347788 |
“An important missing story from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration.”—Laurence Gonzales, author of Deep Survival
On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp....
