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Collins Classics eBook Series

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  • South

    by Ernest Shackleton ...
    Series series Collins Classics
    HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.Now we clung to a battered little boat, 'alone, alone – all, all alone; alone on a wide, wide sea.'The ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 was to be the first land-crossing of Antarctica. When disaster strikes, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s party has no choice but make an impossible journey across an uncharted ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

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  • South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition (1914-1917)

    by Ernest Shackleton ...
    In August of 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton set out with a crew of twenty-eight aboard the ship 'Endurance' in an effort to become the first men to cross the vast Antarctic land mass. Their adventurous tale of exploration soon became a struggle for survival when the ship was enclosed by a sea of ice which slowly crushed it leaving them stranded in a barren icy wilderness. What would follow is one of ... Read more

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  • The Worst Journey in the World

    by Apsley Cherry-Garrard ...
    In 1910 Robert Falcon Scott led the Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole, part scientific and part adventure. After realizing they had been beaten to the pole by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian Expedition, the party suffered a final tragedy: the loss of Scott and his companions to the Antarctic cold on their return journey.The Worst Journey in the World is an autobiographical account by one of the ... Read more

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  • Farthest North

    The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer

    by Fridtjof Nansen ...
    "If Outside magazine had been around during the first turn of the century, Fridtjof Nansen would have been its No. 1 cover boy."-The Chicago Sun-Times In September of 1893, Norwegian zoologist Fridtjof Nansen and crew manned the schooner Fram, intending to drift, frozen in the Arctic pack-ice, to the North Pole. When it became clear that they would miss the pole, Nansen and companion Hjalmar ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Worst Journey in the World

    by Apsley Cherry-Garrard ...
    Series series Bybliotech Discovery
    "The Worst Journey in the World" by Apsley Cherry-Garrard is the epic tale of the disastrous "Winter expedition" of the Author and his two companions- Henry Bowers and Dr Edward Wilson - all members of Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition to the South Pole, who attempted a scientific expedition in the midst of the Antarctic Winter - in the coldest temperatures found on Planet Earth.At the behest ... Read more

    $2.49 CAD

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  • The Antarctic Exploration Anthology

    The Personal Accounts of the Great Antarctic Explorers

    by Ernest Shackleton, Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen ...
    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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  • Endurance

    An Epic of Polar Adventure

    by Frank Arthur Worsley ...
    The legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of HMS Endurance.You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. "What the ice gets," replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's unflappable leader, "the ice keeps." ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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

    by Roald Amundsen ...
    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Astounding Sea Stories

    Fifteen Ripping Good Tales

    Edited by Tom McCarthy ...
    Stories that will entertain, inform, and inspire.Few people would want to test their mettle in an ice-encrusted boat with Ernest Shackleton, or search for the Northwest Passage with Franklin’s doomed crew, or watch their mates being beheaded by angry pirates like Daniel Collins. But it’s quite another thing to read these true accounts while settled into a favorite chair. Here are stoic and hardy ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Scott's Last Expedition: Diaries, 26 November 1910 - 29 March 1912 (Illustrated)

    Diaries, 26 November 1910-29 March 1912

    by Captain Scott ...
    Reviews:'A worthy memorial of one of the great achievements of our time' WINSTON CHURCHILL'A battle cry to the youth and manhood of England' DAILY MIRRORScott of the Antarctic's amazing diary of the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition in which he perished along with Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans after reaching the South Pole behind Roald Amundsen. Scott's diary has been ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Eyewitness Accounts With Scott in the Antarctic

    by Herbert Ponting ...
    Series series Eyewitness Accounts
    'Mr Ponting has it in his power greatly to delight!' Lady Kathleen Scott Herbert Ponting was the photographer on Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic in 1910 - 13. Based at the expedition hut at Cape Evans, Ponting spent the summers studying the continent's wildlife and landscape. He records close encounters with orcas and leopard seals on the ice at Cape Evans, expeditions to ... Read more

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  • Scott's Last Expedition

    by Robert Falcon Scott, Beau Riffenburgh, Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    The final letters and diary entries of Robert Falcon Scott – written in his last days, while hopelessly trapped in a tiny tent by a raging blizzard on the Great Ice Barrier – are among the most poignant and haunting passages ever penned. ‘Had we lived,’ he wrote, ‘I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every ... Read more

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