antarctica

Tells the life story of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, examining his goals and motivations, chronicling his race against Roald Amundsen to the South Pole, and describing his death on the return trip.

Ann Bancroft chronicles the experiences she and Liv Arnesen had as they walked, skied, and ski-sailed for nearlythree months as they set out to become the first women to cross the continent of Antarctica on foot.

The Endurance left England for Antarctica in August, 1914 with polar explorer Ernest Shackelton and twenty-seven men on board. By January 1915 the Endurance had become locked inside an island of ice. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed. Then the true test of survival began for Shackleton and his men and they struggled to survive for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas. Their ordeal ended only after a miraculous journey by Shackleton and a skeleton crew over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization.

Offers a detailed chronology of Captain Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen's rival expeditions to be the first team to reach the South Pole in 1909, describing the challenges each team faced on their race to the pole.

Tells the story of the British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary with the goal of crossing Antarctica.

Chronicles the life and legacy of Roald Amundsen, describing his accomplishments as a Norwegian explorer in the Polar Regions, and discussing such accomplishments as being the first to travel the Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, being the first man to reach both the North and South Poles, and related topics.

Presents an historical narrative on the British Antarctic expedition in 1908 of Ernest Shackleton and the crew of the "Nimrod," who became the first to reach the South Pole and chronicles their achievements as they traveled across hundreds of miles of frozen wilderness.

Describes the life and career of the Australian explorer, Sir Doulgas Mawson, focusing on his 1912 scientific expedition to Antarctica.

Letters and journal entries from a visit to Antarctica, the windiest, coldest, most forbidding region on earth.

An account of the disastrous 1914 expedition to Antarctica and how its members managed to survive.