In "Two Years Below the Horn," engineer Andrew Taylor vividly recounts his experiences and accomplishments during Operation Tabarin, a landmark British expedition to Antarctica to establish sovereignty and conduct science...
Antarctica
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Author:Taylor, Andrew, Heidt, Daniel, Lackenbauer, WhitneySummary: -
Author:Preston, Douglas J., Child, LincolnSummary:The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed on a frigid, desolate island off the southern tip of Chile. New York billionaire Palmer Lloyd is determined to have it for his museum--but from the first approach to the...
- Author:Armstrong, JenniferSummary:
Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous...
- Author:Perkins, Dennis N. T.Summary:
Part adventure tale, part leadership guide, Leading at the Edge draws on the amazing voyage of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition to present 10 timeless leadership lessons.
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Author:McNeil, JeanSummary:"Ice Diaries is stunningly written and should be on the shelf of anyone fascinated by the globe’s final geographic and psychic frontier.” — The New York Times
“It’s a discussion of the Antarctic as a physical landscape—...
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Author:McNeil, JeanSummary:Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize and one of the Guardian’s Best Books of 2016.
Drawn to understand what we might lose in a world without ice, acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Jean...
- Author:Perro, Bryan, Dion, FrédéricSummary:
Vais-je mourir ? La visibilité était de cent, peut-être deux cents mètres devant moi, le vent soufflait comme je l’avais rarement vu, et, d’un coup, j’ai été projeté dans les airs. Sans que je puisse rien y faire, la corde entre mon...
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Author:Viva, FrankSummary:A boy and a mouse take a bumpy sea journey to the majestic expanses of the Antarctic, where they see the sights and meet new friends.
