In "Two Years Below the Horn," engineer Andrew Taylor vividly recounts his experiences and accomplishments during Operation Tabarin, a landmark British expedition to Antarctica to establish sovereignty and conduct science during the...
Antarctica
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Author:Taylor, Andrew, Heidt, Daniel, Lackenbauer, WhitneySummary: - Author:Khoury, RaymondSummary:
On a ship anchored near the Antarctic ice shelf, a live CNN interview is sidetracked by a pulsating orb of shimmering light that dwarfs the ship with radiant splendor--and stuns a worldwide television audience. Soon this incredible...
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Author:Preston, Douglas J., Child, LincolnSummary:The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed on a frigid, desolate island off the southern tip of Chile. New York billionaire Palmer Lloyd is determined to have it for his museum--but from the first approach to the...
- Author:Trueit, TrudiSummary:
A heart-pounding final showdown changes the life of Cruz Coronado forever in the seventh and final book in this thrilling fact-based fiction series. Amid assignments that take the Explorer Academy recruits from the iceberg-filled waters...
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Author:Armstrong, JenniferSummary:Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous...
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Geopolitics and climate change now have immediate consequences for national and international security interests across the Arctic and Antarctic. The world's polar regions are contested and strategically central to geopolitical rivalry...
- Author:Perkins, Dennis N. T.Summary:
Part adventure tale, part leadership guide, Leading at the Edge draws on the amazing voyage of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition to present 10 timeless leadership lessons.
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Author:McNeil, JeanSummary:"Ice Diaries is stunningly written and should be on the shelf of anyone fascinated by the globe’s final geographic and psychic frontier.” — The New York Times
“It’s a discussion of the Antarctic as a physical landscape—...
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Author:McNeil, JeanSummary:Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize and one of the Guardian’s Best Books of 2016.
Drawn to understand what we might lose in a world without ice, acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Jean...
- Author:Perro, Bryan, Dion, FrédéricSummary:
Vais-je mourir ? La visibilité était de cent, peut-être deux cents mètres devant moi, le vent soufflait comme je l’avais rarement vu, et, d’un coup, j’ai été projeté dans les airs. Sans que je puisse rien y faire, la corde entre mon...
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Author:Larson, Edward J.Summary:Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration. Retold with added information, it's the first book to place the famed...
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Author:Viva, FrankSummary:A boy and a mouse take a bumpy sea journey to the majestic expanses of the Antarctic, where they see the sights and meet new friends.
