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  • The Great White South Traveling with Robert F. Scott's Doomed South Pole Expedition

    by Herbert Ponting ...
    Venture into one of the planet's most unforgiving landscapes through the eyes of Herbert Ponting, the official photographer of Robert F. Scott's legendary expedition. In The Great White South, Ponting offers readers a breathtaking blend of vivid storytelling and extraordinary visual documentation of the race to the South Pole. His eloquent narrative captures the stark beauty of Antarctica's ... Read more

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  • The Great White South

    being an account of experiences with Captain Scott's South pole expedition and of the nature life of the Antarctic

    by Herbert George Ponting ...
    Series series BS Publishing
    Photographer Ponting joined Robert Scott's expedition to the South Pole in 1910. His remarkable book not only tells of the life among Scott's crew on board and at camp, but also provides numerous photos depicting the Antarctic landscape. Ponting also recorded, both in print and on film, habits of the native penguins and seals, and shares stories of his arrival at volcanic Mount Erebus, nearly ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Eyewitness Accounts With Scott in the Antarctic

    by Herbert Ponting ...
    Series series Eyewitness Accounts
    'Mr Ponting has it in his power greatly to delight!' Lady Kathleen Scott Herbert Ponting was the photographer on Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic in 1910 - 13. Based at the expedition hut at Cape Evans, Ponting spent the summers studying the continent's wildlife and landscape. He records close encounters with orcas and leopard seals on the ice at Cape Evans, expeditions to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Great White South: Or With Scott in the Antarctic

    by Herbert G. Ponting ...
    This classic book contains Ponting's well-written and witty account of Captain Scott's final Antarctic expedition of 1910-12. Fully detailed and with many of Ponting's own photographs, this moving account will make an excellent addition to the bookshelf of any admirer of Captain Scott, or anyone with an interest in travel and adventure. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to ... Read more

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    by Ernest Shackleton, Celia Orwinley ...
    South is Ernest Shackleton's gripping account of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917, a journey that became one of the great survival narratives of modern exploration. Written in a plain, disciplined prose shaped by journals, ship's records, and firsthand recollection, the book combines documentary precision with understated drama. Its literary context lies between Victorian ... Read more

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  • In the Kingdom of Ice

    The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

    by Hampton Sides ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and heroism in the Gilded Age from the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. • “A splendid book in every way…a marvelous nonfiction thriller.” —The Wall Street JournalOn July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from San Francisco on the USS Jeanette ... Read more

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  • The Last Viking

    The Life of Roald Amundsen

    by Stephen R. Bown ...
    The authoritative biography of the famous Norwegian polar explorer: "A fascinating account of a complex and driven man" ( Burnaby Now).The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries—the Northwest Passage, the Northeast Passage, the South Pole, and the North ... Read more

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  • Ice Ghosts

    The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition

    by Paul Watson ...
    "Intriguing [and] enjoyable." —Ian McGuire, New York Times Book ReviewIce Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1845—whose two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and their crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice—with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the recent incredible discoveries of the wrecks. Paul Watson, a Pulitzer Prize ... Read more

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  • Lost Beneath the Ice

    The Story of HMS Investigator

    by Andrew Cohen ...
    When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in the 1840s, the British Admiralty launched the largest rescue mission in its history. Among the search vessels was HMS Investigator, which left England in 1850 under the command of Captain Robert McClure. While the ambitious McClure never found Franklin, he and his crew did discover the fabled Northwest Passage.Like Franklin’s ships, though, ... Read more

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  • The Arctic Journals of John Rae

    by John Rae ...
    Series series Classics West
    Scottish doctor and explorer John Rae is a controversial figure in the history of the Arctic. He began his career with the Hudson's Bay Company as a surgeon in Moose Factory, Ontario, where he learned to survey, live off the land, and travel great distances on snowshoes. These skills served him well when, in 1846, he was charged with completing the geography of the northern shore of North America ... Read more

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  • Sailor on Ice: Tom Crean with Scott in the Antarctic 1910-1913

    by David Hirzel ...
    There are more famous names than Tom Crean's from the "heroic age" of Antarctic exploration, but there are few stories as compelling as his. The Antarctic is a harsh place of bitter cold and darkness, where only the strong and resourceful can hope to survive. Crean was such a man. Time and again he was one of three--at times the only one--whose courage in the face of insurmountable odds saved the ... Read more

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