Antarctica - Discovery and exploration
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Can You Survive Antarctica?: An Interactive Survival Adventure
$9.99 Add to cartYou are surrounded by the vast, unforgiving landscape of the coldest place on Earth: Antarctica. Even during the summer months, bone chilling cold, raging blizzards, and treacherous ice threatens huma… [more below]
- Series: You Choose Books (Paperback)
- Author: Hanel, Rachael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1429673451
- Language: English
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Ernest Shackleton
$15.99 Read moreIn this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Ernest Shackleton, the fearless Antarctic adventurer.
When Ernest Sha- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #45
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0711245711
- Language: English
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Lost in the Antarctic: The Doomed Voyage of the Endurance (Lost #4): Volume 4
$7.99 Add to cartClimb aboard the doomed ship Endurance to join famed explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew who must battle the frigid Antarctic elements to survive being stranded at the edge of the world.
There wasn… [more below]
- Series: Lost #4
- Author: Olson, Tod
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1338207342
- Language: English
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Where Is Antarctica?
$7.99 Add to cartExplore Antarctica–the coldest, driest, and windiest continent on Earth–in this adventure-filled title in the Who HQ series.
Antarctica, the earth’s southernmost continent, was virtually untouched b- Series: Where Is?
- Author: Fabiny, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1524787590
- Language: English
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Antarctica: A Biography
$40.99 Add to cartSince the first sailing ships spied the Antarctic coastline in 1820, the frozen continent has captured the world’s imagination. David Day’s brilliant biography of Antarctica describes in fascinating d… [more below]
- Author: Day, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 642
- Publish Date: June 20 2013
- ISBN10: 0199861455
- Language: English
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South: The Endurance Expedition
$22.00 Add to cartAs war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole. But their initial optimism was short-lived as i… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Shackleton, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 27 2004
- ISBN10: 0142437794
- Language: English
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The Worst Journey in the World: With Scott in Antarctica 1910-1913
$18.95 Add to cartThe Worst Journey in the World is to travel writing what War and Peace is to the novel . . . a masterpiece.–The New York Review of Books
When people ask me, ‘What is your favorite travel book?’ I near… [more below]- Author: Cherry-Garrard, Apsley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0486477320
- Language: English
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The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
$38.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BEST SELLER – A riveting account of Shackleton’s famed Antarctic expedition, recounting one of the last great adventures in the Heroic Age of exploration–perhaps the greatest of them all—th… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 03 1998
- ISBN10: 0375404031
- Language: English
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The Worst Journey in the World
$19.00 Add to cartA firsthand account of Scott’s disastrous Antarctic expedition
The Worst Journey in the World recounts Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrard–the youngest- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Cherry-Garrard, Apsley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039385
- Language: English
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Antarctica: The Melting Continent
$24.00 Add to cartAntarctica-vast, cold, and mysterious. This frozen continent is full of incredible stories. Here you can discover incredible wildlife, awe-inspiring landscapes, and adventurous scientists and explorer
- Author: Romano Young, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1913750531
- Language: English
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Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
$17.99 Add to cartOn January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself p
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0393347788
- Language: English
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The Last Cold Place: A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica
$27.99 Read moreLab Girl meets Why Fish Don’t Exist in this “compelling blend of memoir, environmental writing, and scientific exploration” (Kirkus Reviews) from a young scientist studying penguins in Antarctica–a f… [more below]
- Author: de Gracia, Naira
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 198218275X
- Language: English
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My Antarctica: True Adventures in the Land of Mummified Seals, Space Robots, and So Much More
$18.99 Add to cartFollow Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author G. Neri to the end of the world in a captivating travel memoir that explores Antarctica through the curiosity and wonder of his inner child–the kid who … [more below]
- Author: Neri, G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 5, 2024
- ISBN10: 1536223328
- Language: English
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The Indestructible Tom Crean: Heroic Explorer of the Antarctic
$19.99 Add to cartHeroic Explorer of the Antarctic.
At the turn of the twentieth century, Antarctica is the last unexplored continent. The ice is unforgiving. It can break the human spirit. It takes many men willing to- Author: Thermes, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0593117727
- Language: English
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The White Darkness
$25.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager, a thrilling and powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with c… [more below]
- Author: Grann, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 038554457X
- Language: English
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Mawson’s Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
$21.95 Read moreThe dramatic story of explorer Douglas Mawson and “the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history” (Sir Edmund Hillary, mountaineer and explorer)
For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas- Author: Bickel, Lennard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 04 2000
- ISBN10: 1586420003
- Language: English
