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History : Polar Regions

Polar Regions eBooks

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Antarctic Accounts
By: Amundsen, Roald; Ernest Shackleton
Published by: InfoStrategist

Narratives of Antarctic exploration and adventure by two world-renowned polar explorers – Captain Roald Amundsen’s account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the “Fram” (1910-1912) and Sir Ernest Shackleton’s account of the British expedition (1914-1917) aboard the Endurance and the Aurora. more...

Price: $5.99


Leading at the Edge
By: Perkins, Dennis N.T.; Holtman, Margaret P.; Kessler, Paul R.; McCarthy, Catherine
Published by: AMACOM

Leadership expert Dennis N.T. Perkins reveals how Shackleton’s vision, actions, and philosophy of leadership provide a compass to executives and managers in today’s climate of fierce competition, economic uncertainty, and constant change. more...

Price: $24.95


The South Pole
By: Amundsen, Roald
Published by: InfoStrategist

World-renowned polar explorer Captain Roald Amundsen’s (1872-1928) conversational, candid, and engrossing account of his Norwegian expedition’s successful race, first aboard the Fram and then by dogsled, to be the first to reach the South Pole. more...

Price: $4.99


Encyclopedia of the Antarctic
By: Riffenburgh, Beau
Published by: Routledge

The Antarctic is unique, geographically, politically, and scientifically. Antarctica is the only major part of the Earth's landmass not directly governed by one nation, but under the control of a Treaty. This work offers information on a variety of factors, issues, and individuals influencing and relating to the Antarctic. more...

Price: $425.00


Exploring Polar Frontiers
By: Mills, William James
Published by: ABC-CLIO

This encyclopedia covers the history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration, from the voyage to Pytheas ca. 325 BC to the present. Features include: A-Z biographical, geographical and subject entries on Arctic and Antarctic exploration and explorers and an alphabetical chronology of expeditions. more...

Price: $230.00


Gender on Ice
By: Bloom, Lisa
Published by: University of Minnesota Press

Bloom focuses on the conquest of the North Pole as she reveals how popular print and visual media defined and shaped American national ideologies from the early twentieth century to the present. more...

Price: $60.00


The Ice Museum
By: Kavenna, Joanna
Published by: Penguin Books (USA)

A legend, a land once seen and then lost forever, Thule was a place beyond the edge of the maps, a mystery for thousands of years. And to the Nazis, Thule was an icy Eden, birthplace of Nordic “purity.” In this exquisitely written narrative, Joanna Kavenna wanders in search of Thule, to Shetland, Iceland, Norway, Estonia, Greenland, and Svalbard, unearthing the philosophers, poets, and explorers who claimed Thule for themselves, from Richard Francis Burton to Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen. Marked by breathtaking snowscapes, haunting literature, and the cold specter of past tragedies, this is a wondrous blend of travel writing and detective work that is impossible to set down. RVIEW: Thule, real or not, is ripe and beguiling material for a literary and geographic adventurer, and Kavenna is formidable on both fronts. . . . Highly cerebral, erudite, refreshing. (The New York Times Book Review) more...

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In the Lena Delta: A Narrative of the Search for Lieut.-Commander DeLong and His Companions Followed by An Account of the Greely Relief Expedition and a Proposed Method for Reaching the North Pole
By: Melville, George W.
Published by: Digital Scanning, Inc.

In the Lena Delta is the story of the U.S. explorer and naval engineer, George Melville, who led an expedition that found the remains of Lieutanant G.W. De Long and his party from his previous expedition on the Jeannette. In July of 1879, as chief engineer, Melville set sail with De Long from San Francisco on the Jeannette through the Bering Strait, heading for Wrangel Island off the northeast coast of Siberia. On September 5th, the ship became trapped in the pack ice near Herald Island (now Gerald Island), east of Wrangel. more...

Price: $4.95


Journals
By: Scott, Robert Falcon; Jones, Max (ed.)
Published by: OUP Oxford

Captain Scott's own account of his tragic race with Roald Amundsen for the South Pole thrilled the world in 1913. This new edition of his Journals publishes for the first time a complete list of the changes made to Scott's original text before publication. - ;'For God's sake look after our people'. Captain Scott's harrowing account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 was first published in 1913. In his journals Scott records his party's optimistic departure from New Zealand, the hazardous voyage of theTerra Nova to Antarctica, and the trek with ponies and dogs across the ice to the Pole. On the way the explorers conduct scientific experiments, collect specimens, and get to know each other's characters. Their discovery that Amundsen has beaten them to their goal,. and the endurance with which they face an 850-mile march to safety, have become the stuff of legend. This new edition publishes for the first time a complete list of the changes made to Scott's original text before publication. In his Introduction Max Jones illuminates the Journals' writing and publication, Scott's changing reputation, and the continued attraction of heroes in our cynical age. - ;definitive...Max Jones and the publishers are to be congratulated on this new version of a classic story, and for offering it at such a reasonable price. It should be the last word for a very long time. - Polar Record 42 more...

Price: $8.95


The Last Great Quest
By: Jones, Max
Published by: OUP Oxford

The story of Captain Scott's last Antarctic expedition is one of the greatest adventure stories ever told. Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Lieutenant Henry Bowers, Petty Officer Edgar Evans, Captain Lawrence Oates, and Dr Edward Wilson all died on the return trek from the South Pole, starved and frozen, only eleven miles from a supply camp. In November 1912, a rescue party discovered their last letters and diaries, which told a story of bravery, hardship, and self-sacrifice that. shocked the world. Recent decades have seen controversy rage over whether Scott was the last of a line of great Victorian explorers, intent on discovering uncharted lands, or a hopeless incompetent driven by personal ambition. Rejecting the stereotypes, Max Jones reveals a complex figure, a product of the passions and preoccupations of an imperial age. He also shows how heroes are made and manipulated, through a close examination of the unprecedented outpouring of public grief at the news of the death of. Scott. - ;Scott's last Antarctic expedition is one of the great adventure stories of the twentieth century. On 1 November 1911, a British team set out on the gruelling 800-mile journey across the coldest and highest continent on Earth to travel to the South Pole. Five men battled through unimaginably harsh conditions only to find the Norwegian flag had been planted at the Pole just weeks before. Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Lieutenant Henry Bowers, Petty Officer Edgar Evans, Captain Lawrence. Oates, and Dr Edward Wilson all died on the return trek, starved and frozen to death, only eleven miles from a supply camp. In November 1912, a rescue party discovered their last letters and diaries, which told a story of bravery, hardship, and self-sacrifice that shocked the world. Recent decades have seen controversy rage over whether Scott was the last of a line of great Victorian explorers, intent on discovering uncharted lands, or a hopeless incompetent driven by personal ambition. Rejecting more...

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