Antarctic
Birds : Ecological and Behavioral Approaches (Exploration of Palmer Archipelago)
David Freeland Parmelee, Harold F. Mayfield
Hardcover / Published 1992
Antarctica:
The Blue Continent
by David McGonigal, Lynn Woodworth
Book Description: Illustrated guide to Antarctica's environment, geography,
wildlife, and history.
Antarctica: The Blue Continent is a superbly illustrated and easy-to-understand
book that reveals this polar region's ruthless majesty and natural beauty.
The environment is Earth's harshest, coldest, most inhospitable climate.
A staggering 98% of the continent is covered with ice averaging 1.4 miles
in depth; 90% of the world's ice is found in there. In spite of the cold
and ice, Antarctica's shores and waters are home to an amazing variety
of vegetation and indigenous wildlife-seals, sea lions, whales, penguins
and sea birds-that have evolved in extraordinary ways to adapt to their
unforgiving habitat. The book features natural phenomena such as a glacier
made of jagged, Jurassic-era rock instead of ice, and entire mountain ranges
filled to their peaks with snow.
In the chapters on polar exploration, Antarctica profiles Captain Cook,
Roald Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott, and others. Readers will experience
why this continent has inspired so much effort and heroism in the quest
to discover its secrets.
This book is a concise version of the authors' 608-page Antarctica and
the Arctic.
Hardcover from Firefly Books
Book Published: September, 2003 |
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Antarctica
Unveiled: Scott's First Expedition and the Quest for the Unknown Continent
by David E. Yelverton
Hardcover from University Press of Colorado
Book Published: October, 2000
Antarctica
: A Guide to the Wildlife
by Tony Soper, Dafila Scott (Illustrator)
(Paperback)
Antarctica
by Claire Keegan
(Hardcover)
Below
the Convergence : Voyages Towards Antarctica, 1699-1839
by Alan Gurney
(Hardcover - February 1997)
The
Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition
by Susan Solomon
Hardcover from Yale Univ Pr
Book Published: 01 September, 2001
Endurance
: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by Alfred Lansing (Preface)
(Paperback - April 1999)
Ice
: The Antarctic Diary of Charles F. Passel
by Charles F. Passel
Hardcover - 480 pages (November 1995)
Texas Tech Univ Pr; ISBN: 089672347X
The
Ice Limit
by Lincoln Child, Douglas J. Preston
(Hardcover - July 2000)
Journey
to the Pole (Antarctica, 1)
by Peter Lerangis
(Paperback - June 2000)
The
Last Place on Earth
by Roland Huntford, Paul Theroux
On December 14, 1911, the classical age of polar exploration ended
when Norway's Roald Amundsen conquered the South Pole. His competitor for
the prize, Britain's Robert Scott, arrived one month later--but died on
the return with four of his men only 11 miles from their next cache of
supplies. But it was Scott, ironically, who became the legend, Britain's
heroic failure, "a monument to sheer ambition and bull-headed persistence.
His achievement was to perpetuate the romantic myth of the explorer as
martyr, and ... to glorify suffering and self-sacrifice as ends in themselves."
The world promptly forgot about Amundsen.
Biographer Ronald Huntford's attempt to restore Amundsen to glory, first
published in 1979 under the title Scott and Amundsen, has been thawed as
part of the Modern Library Exploration series, captained by Jon Krakauer
(of Into Thin Air fame). The Last Place on Earth is a complex and fascinating
account of the race for this last great terrestrial goal, and it's pointedly
geared toward demythologizing Scott. Though this was the age of the amateur
explorer, Amundsen was a professional: he left little to chance, apprenticed
with Eskimos, and obsessed over every detail. While Scott clung fast to
the British rule of "No skis, no dogs," Amundsen understood that both were
vital to survival, and they clearly won him the Pole.
Amundsen in Huntford's view is the "last great Viking" and Scott his
bungling opposite: "stupid ... recklessly incompetent," and irresponsible
in the extreme--failings that cost him and his teammates their lives. Yet
for all of Scott's real or exaggerated faults, he understood far better
than Amundsen the power of a well-crafted sentence. Scott's diaries were
recovered and widely published, and if the world insisted on lionizing
Scott, it was partly because he told a better story. Huntford's bias aside,
it's clear that both Scott and Amundsen were valiant and deeply flawed.
"Scott ... had set out to be an heroic example. Amundsen merely wanted
to be first at the pole. Both had their prayers answered." --Svenja
Soldovieri - Amazon.com
Paperback from Modern Library
Book Published: 17 August, 1999 |
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Let
Heroes Speak: Antarctic Explorers, 1772-1922
by Michael H. Rosove
(Hardcover)
Moments
of Terror : The Story of Antarctic Aviation
by David Burke
Hardcover - 320 pages (April 1994)
Howell Pr; ISBN: 0868401579
Lonely
Planet Antarctica (Lonely Planet Antarctica, 2nd Ed)
by Jeff Rubin
(Paperback - September 2000)
My
Season With Penguins : An Antarctic Journal
by Sophie Webb (Illustrator)
(Hardcover)
Of
Dogs and Men : 50 Years in the Antarctic
by Kevin Walton
(Hardcover)
The
South Pole
by Fridtjof Nansen, et al
(Paperback - January 2001)
Shackleton's
Boat Journey
by Frank Arthur Worsley, Edmund Hillary (Introduction)
(Paperback - October 1998)
Mawson's
Will : The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
by Lennard Bickel, Edmund Hillary
(Paperback - March 2000)
The
Race to the White Continent: Voyages to the Antarctic
by Alan Gurney
Hardcover from W.W. Norton & Company
Book Published: September, 2000
Scott's
Last Expedition : The Journals
by Robert Falcon Scott, Beryl Bainbridge
(Paperback - December 1996)
Shackleton
: The Antarctic Challenge
by Kim Heacox
Hardcover from National Geographic
Book Published: November, 1999
Shackleton's
Forgotten Men: The Untold Tale of an Antarctic Tragedy
by Lennard Bickel, Rt. Hon. Lord Shackleton
(Hardcover)
South:
A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage
by Sir Ernest Shackleton
Paperback from Carroll & Graf
Book Published: September, 1998
The
South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram,
1910-1912
by Roald Amundsen, A. G. Chater
Paperback from New York University Press
Book Published: June, 2001
Shackleton
by Roland Huntford
Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Anglo-Irish explorer, never achieved his
goal of reaching the South Pole, though he was knighted in 1909 for having
come within 100 miles. With bravery matched only by his theatricality,
Shackleton sought to top that accomplishment by landing on one side of
Antarctica and traveling the width of the icy continent by sledge. What
might have been a great exploratory journey turned into a raw struggle
for survival when his ship became trapped in pack ice, and he was forced
to lead his team on a desperate trek across hundreds of miles of the world's
most dangerous terrain. He made it home, but even his stature as one of
Edwardian England's greatest heroes could not save Shackleton from financial
risk taking; he ended his life mired in debt. Roland Huntford's biography
presents a balanced and lively portrait of a man who was, depending on
which of his contemporaries you asked, a national hero or a contemptible
rogue. --Robert McNamara - Amazon.com
(Paperback - May 1998)
Through
the First Antarctic Night
by Frederick A. Cook
(Paperback)
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South
with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917
by Frank Hurley
Sir Ernest Shackleton's trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914-1917 was
one of the great feats of human endurance -- one vividly captured in the
powerful and dramatic pictures taken by Frank Hurley, the expedition's
official photographer. The Publisher
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Volcanological
and Environmental Studies of Mount Erebus, Antarctica (Antarctic Research,
Vol 66)
by Philip R. Kyle
Hardcover from Amer Geophysical Union
Book Published: December, 1994
Special Order
With
Byrd at the Bottom of the World : The South Pole Expedition of 1928-1930
by Norman D. Vaughan, Cecil B. Murphey (Contributor)
Hardcover - 208 pages 1st Ed. edition (September 1990)
Stackpole Books; ISBN: 0811719049
The
Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
The harrowing story of the Scott expedition to the South Pole.
Delivery sometimes delayed.
White out! : Michael Guy's true account of Air New Zealand's DC-10
crash on Mount Erebus
by Michael Guy
Paperback from A. Taylor
Book Published: 1980
Out of Print - Try Used BooksThe Erebus enquiry : a tragic miscarriage of justice
by C. H. N. L'Estrange
Unknown Binding from Air Safety League of N.Z.
Book Published: 1995
Out of Print - Try Used BooksErebus : volcan antarctique
by Haroun Tazieff
Unknown Binding from Arthaud
Book Published: 1978
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