This was at a time when survival techniques in Antarctica were being learned the hardest way, men went out and did things they thought best, sometimes had a thoroughly miserable, occasionally near-fatal time of it and then learned never to do it quite that way again. It gives a good ...
1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica revisits the exploits of these different expeditions. Looking beyond the personalities and drawing on his own polar experience, Chris Turney shows how their discoveries marked the dawn of a new age in our understanding of the natural world. Aerial Exp...
My husband is going to Antarctica in January. It’s been a lifelong dream but, as he points out, even though he’s traveled more than I have, I’ve been to more continents. So I think he may be partly motivated because he’s trying to catch up with me. We get competitive about t...
STRUCTURE OF THE QUEEN MAUD MOUNTAINS, ANTARCTICA Laurence M. Gould 1935 Pamphlet Fine By: Gould, Laurence M. Price $4.99~ List Price $30.00, You Save $25.01 WITHIN REACH: MY EVEREST STORY Mark Pfetzer and Jack Galvin 1998 1st ed Hardcover DJ New ...
ANTARCTICA: Polar Research and Discovery During the International Geophysical Year Carl Eklund, Joan Bechman 1963 1st ed Paperback Fine By: Eklund, Carl, Joan Beckman Price $6.95 - Item # PL5401-883 View Details Add To Cart K2 QUEST OF THE GODS: THE LOCATION OF THE LEGENDARY "HALL OF RE...
the Endurance was crushed by ice leaving the crew marooned on shifting and eventually crumbling sea-ice leading to their self-rescue after a number of harrowing adventures. Anglo-Irish Shackleton also took part in three other expeditions to Antarctica in addition to this, two of which he organize...
It is rare to read something that so closely mixes science fiction with reality, but Space 2069 does just that. From the pen of former BBC science correspondent David Whitehouse, this book affords us an intelligent portrait of where we may be in the next half-century: from an Antarctica-li...
Pittsburgh. He initiated the U.S. Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) project and led meteorite recovery expeditions in Antarctica in 1976. His name is found attached to a mineral (Cassidyite), on the map of Antarctica (Cassidy Glacier), and in the Catalog of Asteroids (3382 Cassidy)....
PART III. THE THIRD EXPEDITION, 1910–1912: ANTARCTICA AND THE SOUTHERN OCEAN- The Boss- The Great Deception- Terra Nova- The Southern Ocean- Rescue or Rebellion?- Triumph and Tragedy- Abandoning Ship- A Wandering AlbatrossPART IV. LAST VOYAGES- Ships in Ice, Ships of Air- The Lonely ...
Secret projects, new business partners, and long awaited books (Rifts Bestiary Volume 2, Rifts Antarctica, Yin-Sloth Expeditions, BTS: Beyond Arcanum, etc.) are also coming along. When we are able to announce many of the unnamed products, I think you’ll be pleased and, in some cases...