South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-12
9 best books like South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-12 (Roald Amundsen): Das Boot, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy, Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals, The Worst Journey in the World, Farthest North, The Heart of the Antarctic: The Farthest South Expedition 1907-1909, South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917, The Ice Master
| Author | Lothar-Günther Buchheim |
| ISBN | 0304352314 |
It is autumn, 1941, and a German U-boat commander and his crew set out on yet another hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic. Over the coming weeks they must brave the stormy waters of the Atlantic in their mission to seek out and destroy British supply ships. But the tide is beginning to turn against...
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,...
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...
| 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...
| 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...
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 | 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...
