Buy The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic or Return to Antarctica: The Amazing Adventure of Sir Charles Wright on Robert Scotts Journey to the South Pole or Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen: Ambition and Tragedy in the Antarctic.
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The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in theSOLD OUT"This is a great book about life at remote bases in Canada's far north as seen by a young English boy who went there by himself to see the world and got more than he could have bargained for. Beautifully written." --Sir Ranulph Fiennes"As spare, gleaming, and exhilarating as the Arctic wastes and the gentle, stoic Eskimos who had mastery of this realm .
Return to Antarctica: The Amazing Adventure of Sir$16.87By 1910, the Antarctic was the last place on earth that had never been explored, and British naval officer Robert Scott was obsessed that an Englishman - specifically himself - should conquer the pole. Despite being under-funded, under-equipped and unprepared, Scott sailed south in the antiquated whaling ship, Terra Nova, in what everyone assumed would be a cracking good adventure.
Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen: Ambition and Tragedy$9.96Between the middle of January and the end of March 1912 five men died in the attempt to return from the South Pole to their base on the edge of Antarctica. Their leader, the last to die and the man whose diary described their agonies was Robert Falcon Scott. The expedition had been beaten to the Pole by a band of racing Norwegians, led by Roald Amundsen. The bodies of the last three to die were found seven months later and, ever since, Scott's men have been British heroes.
Arctic Explorer: The Story of Matthew Henson ($2.22A biography of the Black explorer who discovered the North Pole.
The Magic Tree House Research Guide 18 Book Set$149.99These easy-to-read companion guides give children the facts behind their favorite Magic Tree House® adventures! Includes American Revolution, Ancient Greece and the Olympics, Ancient Rome and Pompeii, Dinosaurs, Dolphins and Sharks, Knights and Castles, Mummies and Pyramids, Penguins and Antarctica, Pilgrims, Pirates, Polar Bears and the Arctic, Rain Forests, Sabertooths and the Ice Age, Sea Monsters, Space, Titanic, Tsunamis and Other Natural Disasters, and Twisters and Other Terrible Storms.
Newman's Birds of Southern Africa (South AfricanSOLD OUTExtensively revised, this is a field guide to all the birds recorded from the Antarctic, through Southern Africa to the Zambezi. It contains updated paintings by the author, data on new vagrants and the latest species information.
Walking on Thin Ice: In Pursuit of the North Pole$29.99For adventurers, climbing the Seven Summits—including Everest—and reaching all four Poles is the Holy Grail of world exploration. In 1998, David Hempleman-Adams became the first man on the planet to do it. In Walking on Thin Ice, the world's most accomplished explorer recounts the final leg of his extraordinary15-year odyssey.
National Geographic Destinations, Antarctica the Last$18.04 Antarctica -- a place of intensely profound coldness, solitude, and beauty. Welcome to a landmass 98 percent covered in ice, a world of howling winds and rogue waves, a place of summer's radiant light and winter's interstellar dark. This book pushes the freezer door open to reveal the continent's physical geography, its explorers, and its wildlife -- blizzards of krill, societies of seals, and cacophonies of penguins.
Race for the South Pole: The Expedition Diaries of$10.76For the first time ever Roland Huntford presents each man's full account of the race to the South Pole in their own words.