antarctica

Readers go exploring with Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen and English explorer Robert Scott as they compete to reach the South Pole.

"When a spontaneous time leap sends Nickolas Flux back to Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated Endurance Expedition to Antarctica, what's a teenage history buff to do? Try to avoid becoming stranded, of course! From the crushing of the Endurance to a heroic lifeboat journey, Nick must survive one of the most amazing expeditions of the early 1900s"--Provided by publisher.

Discusses features of the volcano Mount Terror that is located on Ross Island in Antarctica.

When an unidentified drone crashes in Antarctica, and the research station nearby stops communicating, Ryan Cross and the Shadow Squadron are sent to investigate--but their job is complicated by a Russian special forces team, and an officer of Phantom Cell who is more interested in the device than the safety of the American scientists.

Details the events surrounding Ernest Shackleton's expedition across Antarctica and describes the dangers they faced along the way.

Bill Cassidy chronicles the experiences he had while on meteorite recovery expeditions in the Antarctic and describes the U.S. Antarctic Search for Meteorites project and its influence on scientists' understanding of the Moon, Mars, and the asteroid belt.

An extraordinary character and one of history's great explorers, Ernest Shackleton pioneered the path to the South Pole over 100 years ago, becoming the dominant figure in Antarctic discovery. His incredible adventures on four expeditions to the Antarctic have captivated generations. But Shackleton was a flawed character whose chaotic private life, marked by romantic affairs, unfulfilled ambitions, and failed business ventures, contrasted with his celebrity status as the leading explorer.

As a boy he preferred reading sea stories to doing homework and, at age 16, became an apprentice seaman. Subsequently, Ernest Shackleton's incredible journeys to the South Pole in the early 1900s made him one of the most famous explorers of modern times. His courage in the face of dangerous conditions and unforeseeable tragedies reveal the great leader that he was.

When a freak accident involving an infallible gambler, a truck full of chickens, and a gas pump leaves easygoing Iple deaf, he decides to travel to Antarctica. While wandering the tundra trying to reconstruct his hearing and memory, he makes a startling discovery below a sheet of ice. There he finds Isabella, a dinosaur and the last DNA repository of a wealth of human and prehuman knowledge. What follows is a mesmerizing detour into our species' fear and wonder at the nature of prediction in this comic yet harrowing novella in Soft Skull's ShortLit series.