Shackleton's Boat Journey

7 best books like Shackleton's Boat Journey (Frank A. Worsley): Permanent Record, The Heart of the Antarctic: The Farthest South Expedition 1907-1909, An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor, Shackleton, South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917, The Ice Master, Erebus: The Story of a Ship

Permanent Record

Author	Edward Snowden
ISBN	1250237238

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.

In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden...

The Heart of the Antarctic: The Farthest South Expedition 1907-1909

Author	Ernest Shackleton
ISBN	0451200462

What induced me to start reading E. Shackleton’s dramatic diary on his first Antarctic journey as a leader of an expedition was William’s Grill “Shackleton’s Journey” illustrated and narrated by himself. Despite being a children-purposed colorful table book, it appeared a page-turner...

An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor

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....

Shackleton

Author	Roland Huntford
ISBN	0786705442

An amazing book on the amazing life of one of the great polar explorers. It appears that his fame has become more to the forefront in the past few years since one usually heard about Byrd and Scott but not Shackleton.

Polar exploration is often surrounded by more myth than fact and the author rights...

South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917

Author

Frank Hurley

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...

The Ice Master

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...

Erebus: The Story of a Ship

Author

Michael Palin

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...