antarctica

Readers will learn about a great mountain range buried under ice, massive glaciers, and the wildlife that survives the cold. Majestic photographs and detailed maps will engage readers as geographical, historical, and weather information introduce them to the fifth-largest continent on Earth.

Felicity Aston, physicist and meteorologist, took two months off from all human contact as she became the first woman -- and only the third person in history - to ski across the entire continent of Antarctica alone. She did it with the simple apparatus of cross-country, without the aids used by her prededecessors - two Norwegian men -- each of whom employed either parasails or kites. Aston's journey across the ice at the bottom of the world asked of her the extremes in terms of mental and physical bravery, as she faced the risks of hypothermia and unseen cracks buried in the snow so large they might engulf her. She had to deal with her emotional vulnerability in face of the constant bombardment of hallucinations, brought on by the vast sea of whiteness which caused the lack of stimulation to her senses, as she faced what is tantamount to a form of solitary confinement.

Relates how twenty-seven men and sixty-nine sled dogs aboard the Endurance struggled to survive when the ship became stuck in the ice during an expedition to Antarctica in 1914.

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.

Shares stories about what its like to be lost and forced to survive in Antarctic.

Riley accompanies Uncle Max, Aunt Martha, and Cousin Alice to Antarctica, the coldest place on earth, to investigate the diet of the penguins there to see whether it has changed because of rising ocean temperatures.

"Max Flash, amazing escapologist and master illusionist, returns for a cool fifth mission. Max is dispatched to the Antarctic to investigate a distress signal from a ship that has been trapped by a sheet of rapidly forming ice, and whose crew has mysteriously vanished. Could the crew's disappearance be connected to the sightings of strange beasts in the area? Max's investigations soon lead him to a secret base deep beneath the Antarctic ice..."--Provided by publisher.

Peppi, a penguin who is unhappy at the zoo, accompanies a toy penguin on his trip to visit Santa Claus and the two find a real home at the South Pole.

Presents an interactive story that places the reader in the midst of Antarctica, struggling for survival. The reader can select from three story paths, fifty-three choices, and twenty different endings to the book.

Photographs, illustrations, and facts describe the Antarctic expedition of Ernest Shackleton that began in 1914.