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John Robert Francis Wild, better known as Frank Wild is the relatively unknown giant of the "Heroic Age" of Antarctic Exploration.He played a significant role in several of the most important expeditions, being on board with Scott when theDiscoverysailed for McMurdo Sound in 1901 so heralding...
First person narratives and ephemera related to exploration of the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic regions. Special emphasis is placed on all listings in Michael Rosove's Antarctic Bibliography and encompassing publications from 1722 up to present day. Unique to Chet Ross Rare Books are books related to...
When Your Life Depends on It Extreme decision making lessons from the AntarcticBrad Borkan and David Hirzel Buy An interesting and unique book that takes six expeditions from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Scott, 1901-1904 and 1910-1913, Amundsen 1910-1912, Shackleton 1907-1909 and ...
In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica where he planned to make the first crossing of the uncharted continent on foot. What unfolded would become the defining saga of the ‘Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration’. Lansing’s 1959 book (...
Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic, The Flight to the South Pole Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. American hero and explorer Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr. tells the story of his first journey through Antarctica and the founding of a series of camps and bases referred to as “Little America.” ...
Written by the Director of Exploration on the expeditions, ‘The Ship Beneath The Ice’ is the remarkable story of how, over a century after it disappeared under the Antarctic ice, Ernest Shackleton’s ship was discovered in 2022. Whilst detailing the extraordinary journey Shackleton and the Endu...
Antarctica is like a big treasure house, there are many amazing phenomena we do not have around the Antarctic, there are a lot of penguins: gentleman penguin, tie penguin, rockhopper penguin and so on. They often live together by the thousands, which is a beautiful sight. ...
POLAR explorationSLED dogsOCEAN bottomGLACIAL EpochSEA cucumbers"Full Fathom 5000: The Expedition of HMS Challenger and the Strange Animals it Found in the Deep Sea" by Graham Bell is a comprehensive book on oceanography that explores the geological aspects of the sea floor. The book focuses on ...
She compares her voyage, to Ernest Shackleton's explorations in the Antarctic. "However, I pke to sleep under a quilt with my head on a goose down pillow," she writes. "So I would read my way into the unknown--into the pathless wastes, into thin air, with no reviews, no best-...