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Groups and evaluates the 12 "Adventures" in terms of social order, both in Doyle's time and in our own.

In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Russia's Tsar Nicholas II. Vladimir Lenin's Russian Revolution was now underway. But Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the Tsar. His goal was a world-wide revolt that would topple all Western capitalist regimes---starting with the British Empire.

In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton announced a new adventure---an ambitious overland trek from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans via the South Pole. The trip became an incredible account of decisive leadership in the face of unbelievable adversity. Shackleton's original words are illustrated with a wide selection of photographs taken by Frank Hurley, who acceompanied Shackleton, and paintings by another expedition member, George Marston.

Examines the personality of Sir Isaac Newton, the seventeenth-century genius who developed the laws of motion, looking at his abilities in math and science, as well as his obsessions with religion and alchemy.

Recounts the story of Shackleton's dangerous exploration of Antarctica under harsh conditions.

A simple biography of the well-known English mathematitian and scientific thinker who helped to change our thinking about the universe.

An illustrated account 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 journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabitable land.

Ice floes breaking apart, frostbite, waves as tall as the tower of London: Ernest Shackleton and his men faced these dangers and more on their Antarctic expedition.

In October 1915, the ship Endurance was crushed by Antarctic ice, and the crew became castaways in one of the harshest regions of the world.