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1	The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition more books like this by Caroline Alexander add to wishlist In August 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 set sail aboard the "Endurance" bound for the South Atlantic. Their goal was to be the first men to cross Antarctica. Caroline Alexander tells the story of Shackleton's expedition accompanied by the photographs of Australian Frank Hurley. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage more books like this by Alfred Lansing add to wishlist Following two successful expeditions to the Antarctic, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) led his crew to the region in order to lead a transantarctic trek in the summer of 1914. This book focuses on the several months of hardship followed by the destruction of their ship "Endurance". Diaries and interviews with the crew assist the author in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	In the land of white death : an epic story of survival in the Siberian Arctic more books like this by Valerian Albanov add to wishlist This recounting of a 1912 disaster tells how a crew of a Russian ship survived on provisions for over a year and a half while frozen in the Siberian Arctic and how, almost without hope, some of the crew decided to try to make it across land. Only two survived. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Last Place on Earth more books like this by Roland Huntford add to wishlist First published in the late 1970s, this book details the events surrounding the first voyage to the South Pole. The British Naval officer Robert Falcon Scott and crew died on the return from the Pole, after discovering that Norwegian Roald Amundsen had reached the site first in 1911. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk more books like this by Jennifer Niven add to wishlist This chronicle of the aftermath of a 1913 shipwreck in Siberia tells of the struggle of 24 men, women, and children to survive in open nature and the intense rivalries that developed among them. Some of those marooned were eventually rescued after the captain left the camp and trekked across the wilderness for help. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Worst Journey in the World more books like this by Apsley Cherry-Garrard add to wishlist Cherry-Garrard, who accompanied Robert Falcon Scott to the Antarctic on the explorer's doomed quest for the South Pole, recounts the unforgettable journey across forbidding, inhospitable terrain. He was also a member of the search party that ultimately discovered Scott's frozen body along with his last notebook entries. With an introduction by ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.61! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica more books like this by Sara Wheeler add to wishlist Sara Wheeler was the first woman selected by the American government to be the "Writer in Residence at the US South Pole Station". She spent six weeks at the pole. In this book she reveals how people live on the bases and how the landscape affects them. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Endurance; an epic of polar adventure more books like this by F. A. Worsley add to wishlist The astounding and inspiring true story behind the forthcoming Wolfgang Petersen film of the same name. First published in 1931, "Endurance" is the full account of a doomed expedition to the Antarctic and the incredible rescue that followed. 20 illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.77! \| first editions \| SVS
9	To the End of the Earth: Our Epic Journey to the North Pole and the Legend of Peary and Henson more books like this by Tom Avery add to wishlist April 2009 is the one-hundredth anniversary of perhaps the greatest controversy in the history of exploration. Did U.S. Naval Commander Robert Peary and his team dogsled to the North Pole in thirty-seven days in 1909? Or, as has been challenged, was this speed impossible, and was he a cheat? In 2005, polar explorer Tom Avery and his team set out ... see all copies from $5.87! new only from $7.99! \| SVS
10	Shadows on the Wasteland: Crossing Antarctica with Ranulph Fiennes more books like this by Mike Stroud add to wishlist When Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dr. Mike Stroud ended their journey on foot across Antarctica in February of 1993, they were frostbitten and close to starvation. They had made the first coast-to-coast crossing of the continent, unsupported by men, animals or machines, and were too weak to continue over the floating Ross ice-shelf to open water. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Arctic adventure; my life in the frozen north more books like this by Peter Freuchen add to wishlist An adventure classic by the famed explorer who lived among the Greenland Inuit. (SEE QUOTE.) see all copies from $5.00! first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland more books like this by Gretel Ehrlich add to wishlist Ehrlich tells of her travels in Greenland: the months of unpunctuated days followed by months of endless nights, the chain of hospitality that she followed from north to south, and the ruggedness of solo travel in a cold wilderness. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.65! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13	Book of the Eskimos more books like this by Peter Freuchen add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Desperate People more books like this by Farley Mowat add to wishlist THEY COULD SURVIVE ANYTHING IN THE ARCTIC WILDERNESS--EXCEPT THE WHITE MAN.They were rich, the caribou were abundant. Their dogs were many and strong. The children in the tents were happy, and there was never any fear of going hungry. Then came the ruthless white man's civilization. And with it came slaughter of the herds, starvation of the flesh, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic more books like this by Harvey Oxenhorn add to wishlist Harvey Oxenhorn had taught Conrad and Melville, but knew nothing about ships or sailing until he made his first voyage on the Regina Maris--a tall ship converted into a study vessel for scientists and crew. Turning The Rig is his fascinating account of that voyage. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.35! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Farthest North more books like this by Fridtjof Nansen add to wishlist Nansen's three-year expedition to the North Pole with the Fram marked the beginning of the modern age of exploration. This book is an account, by Freidtjof Nansen, of that expedition. It describes his plan, ridiculed by his peers, to allow the specially designed Fram to become frozen in the treacherous pack ice of the Arctic Oceans. Drifting with ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $14.80! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	South: The Last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and the Endurance more books like this by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, Tim Cahill (Foreword by) add to wishlist "Literally the epic of the ice, ("South") is the narration, in rich detail . . . of Shackleton's final Antarctic journey, 1914-1917".--"Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger". 70 photos & line drawings. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Sea Ice & Rock more books like this by Chris Bonington, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston add to wishlist After meeting on the TV programme "The Krypton Factor", the authors of this book pooled their abilities on a light-hearted sail to Skye to climb the Cuillin Ridge. The Greenland expedition was something much more ambitious. First Robin had to nurse his famous wooden yacht through the enclosing icebergs of Watkins Fjord. Then Chris had to sort out ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $79.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917 more books like this by Frank Hurley (Photographer) add to wishlist This collection of photographs--more than 450 in all--records the exploits of the men who sailed on Shackleton's famous expedition that went wrong. Frank Hurley was the official photographer of the expedition, and later became one of Australia's foremost filmmakers and photographers. see all copies from $12.92! new only from $77.17!
20 view cover	Shackleton's forgotten men : the untold tragedy of the endurance epic more books like this by Lennard Bickel add to wishlist In Shackleton's Forgotten Men Lennard Bickel honours the memory of a group of men who carried out some of the most heroic and devoted journeys ever made in the Antarctic. This is the stirring account of the little-known, tragic expedition launched by Ernest Shackleton in 1915 to provide support for his own Antarctic expedition that would follow ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.97! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Alone more books like this by Richard E. Byrd add to wishlist When Admiral Richard E. Byrd set out on his second Antarctic expedition in 1934, he was already an international hero for having piloted the first flights over the North and South Poles. His plan for this latest adventure was to spend six months alone near the bottom of the world, gathering weather data and indulging his desire "to taste peace and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Berserk: My Voyage to the Antarctic in a Twenty-Seven-Foot Sailboat more books like this by David Mercy add to wishlist An unforgettable sailing adventure to the world's most dangerous continent describes what it is like to withstand heaving seas and crushing waves for days on end, seasickness, and the first sight of the treacherous baby icebergs. see all copies from $5.47! new only from $25.07! \| first editions
23 view cover	Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World more books like this by David Roberts add to wishlist Follows the author's reconstruction of the survival story of four eighteenth-century Russian sailors who were shipwrecked on the barren Arctic island of Svalbard for six years. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	My Attainment of the Pole: Being the Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909 more books like this by Frederick Albert Cook add to wishlist Cook, allegedly the first man to reach the North Pole, recounts his adventures at the top of the world, his meetings with eskimos and his hunting of musk ox, plus his subsequent debates with Robert Peary after he had returned to his homeland. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.11! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	South: The Endurance Expedition more books like this by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton add to wishlist This is the epic first hand account of the Endurance expedition. As the first world war broke out in Europe, Shackleton's expedition to the South Pole became trapped by ice. Their ship, the Endurance, was crushed and the men were forced to survive in and escape from one of the world's most hostile environment. Traversing glaciers, scaling cliffs ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS

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