 List price: $16.50 35 new & used available from $0.01. 'One of the most remarkable tales of human courage and determination. The story is gripping and the book is a classic of its kind' Sir Ranulph Fiennes Endurance is the story of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. The object of the ex... |
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-17 3 used available from $40.06. An illustrated account of Shackleton's last expedition to the Antarctic.... |
Race to The End: Amundsen, Scott, and the Attainment of the South Pole  List price: $27.95 33 new, used & collectible available from $15.15. In connection with the world-famous American Museum of Natural History: the gripping true story of the race to the South Pole A beautifully told, impeccably researched, and stunningly illustrated account of the arduous quest for social advancement, scientific knowledge, recognition, and pride.A century ago, England's Robert Falcon Scott and Norway’s Roald Amundsen two explorers with vastly d... |
A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2  List price: $4.00 On the 6th, being the day after leaving Ulietea, at eleven o'clock a.m., we saw land bearing N.W., which, upon a nearer approach, we found to be a low reef island about four leagues in compass, and of a circular form. It is composed of several small patches connected together by breakers, the largest lying on the N.E. part. ... |
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition  List price: $35.00 266 new, used & collectible available from $1.00. In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. Weaving a treacherous path through the freezing Weddell Sea, they had come within eighty-five miles of their de... |
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places  List price: $14.99 36 new & used available from $6.99. From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to "The Year Without Summer," Bill Streever journeys through history, myth, geography, and ecology in a year-long search for cold--real, icy, 40-below cold. In July he finds it while taking a dip in a 35-degree Arctic swimming hole; in September while excavating our planet's ancient and not so ancient ice ages;... |
The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness  List price: $15.00 78 new & used available from $1.74. Hundreds of hardy people have tried to carve a living in the Alaskan bush, but few have succeeded as consistently as Heimo Korth. Originally from Wisconsin, Heimo traveled to the Arctic wilderness in his feverous twenties. Now, more than three decades later, Heimo lives with his wife and two daughters approximately 200 miles from civilization -- a sustainable, nomadic life bounded by the migrating... |
 List price: $15.00 75 new & used available from $4.11. Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his masterpiece.Lopez offers a thorough examination of this obscure world-its terrain, its wildlife, its history of Eskimo natives and intrepid explorers who have arrived on their icy shores. But what turns this marvelous work of natural history into a breathtaking study of profound originality is his uni... |
Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology  197 new & used available from $0.01. This very concise, accurate introduction to the basic ideas and practices of contemporary cultural anthropology is designed to address the needs of anthropology professors who make extensive use of ethnographies and other supplementary readings in their courses. Not a standard textbook, Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology functions as a thorough annotated bibliography of the terms and concepts ... |
A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1 List price: $4.00 Whether the unexplored part of the Southern Hemisphere be only an immense mass of water, or contain another continent, as speculative geography seemed to suggest, was a question which had long engaged the attention, not only of learned men, but of most of the maritime powers of Europe.... |
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