Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
Title | Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration PDF eBook |
Author | David Roberts |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2013-01-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0393089649 |
"Gripping and superb. This book will steal the night from you." —Laurence Gonzales, author of Deep Survival On 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 plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface. Mawson was sometimes reduced to crawling, and one night he discovered that the soles of his feet had completely detached from the flesh beneath. On February 8, when he staggered back to base, his features unrecognizably skeletal, the first teammate to reach him blurted out, "Which one are you?" This thrilling and almost unbelievable account establishes Mawson in his rightful place as one of the greatest polar explorers and expedition leaders. It is illustrated by a trove of Frank Hurley’s famous Antarctic photographs, many never before published in the United States.
Scott's Last Expedition
Title | Scott's Last Expedition PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Falcon Scott |
Publisher | |
Pages | 596 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Antarctica |
ISBN |
Being the reports of the journeys and the scientific work undertaken by Dr. E.A. Wilson and the surviving members of the expedition
Title | Being the reports of the journeys and the scientific work undertaken by Dr. E.A. Wilson and the surviving members of the expedition PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Falcon Scott |
Publisher | |
Pages | 600 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Antarctica |
ISBN |
The Coldest March
Title | The Coldest March PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Solomon |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 2002-11-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300099218 |
Details the expedition of Robert Falcon Scott and his British team to the South Pole in 1912.
Scott's Last Expedition
Title | Scott's Last Expedition PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Falcon Scott |
Publisher | |
Pages | 521 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Antarctica |
ISBN |
Journals
Title | Journals PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Falcon Scott |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 592 |
Release | 2008-07-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0199536805 |
Captain Scott's own account of his tragic race with Roald Amundsen for the South Pole thrilled the world in 1913. This new edition of his Journals publishes for the first time a complete list of the changes made to Scott's original text before publication.
The Voyage of the 'Discovery'
Title | The Voyage of the 'Discovery' PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Falcon Scott |
Publisher | |
Pages | 724 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Antarctica |
ISBN |
Account of British National Antarctic Expedition 1901-04, leader R.F. Scott.