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  • The Last Voyage Of The Karluk

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Bob Bartlett ...
    The Last Voyage of the Karluk begins with a grim confession: out of the original ship's company, only nine men survived the Arctic ordeal. Captain Robert A. Bartlett recounts the 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition under Vilhjalmur Stefansson, an ambitious scientific venture meant to map new lands, test theories of Arctic currents, and establish bases for future work. But the Karluk was an old whaler ... Read more

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  • Business Continuity

    IT Risk Management for International Corporations

    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Risk Management and Business Continuity are essential for the competitive capacity of any international corporation. The temporary unavailability of technology and services can endanger the existence of any company. It is cruical to develop an international strategy to deal with these problems. This book provides theoretical analysis and practical solutions on these topics. ... Read more

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  • The Worst Journey in the World

    “The Worst Journey in the world is to travel writing what ‘War and Peace’ is to novel... a masterpiece.” —New York Review of Books Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s 'The Worst Journey in the World', first published in 1922, is a harrowing account of the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition (19101913) led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott to Antarctica. As one of the youngest expedition members, Cherry-Garrard ... Read more

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  • Empire of Ice and Stone

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  • The Antarctic Exploration Anthology

    The Personal Accounts of the Great Antarctic Explorers

    Series series Texts of Discovery
    The frozen continent of Antarctica has always captured the imagination of explorers and adventurers from around the World, most especially in the first few decades of the 20th Century, when the race was on to be the very first person to reach the South Pole.In this carefully selected Anthology we present the personal accounts of the greatest early explorers of Antarctica: Captain Robert Falcon ... Read more

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  • The South Pole: An Account of The Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in The "Fram" 1910-12, Volume 1 and Volume 2

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