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Illustrated Classics eBook Series

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  • THE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN SCOTT

    by CHARLES TURLEY ...
    Series Book 102 - Illustrated Classics
    The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. It was led by Robert Falcon Scott and had various scientific and geographical objectives. Scott wished to continue the scientific work that he had begun when leading the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic in 1901–04. He also wanted to be the first to ... Read more

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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

    $2.99 CAD

  • South (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. The Endurance Shipwreck, Weddell Sea Pack Ice, and an Antarctic Survival Memoir of Leadership and Resilience

    by Ernest Shackleton, Celia Orwinley ...
    South is Ernest Shackleton's gripping account of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917, a journey that became one of the great survival narratives of modern exploration. Written in a plain, disciplined prose shaped by journals, ship's records, and firsthand recollection, the book combines documentary precision with understated drama. Its literary context lies between Victorian ... Read more

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  • The Arctic Exploration Anthology

    The Personal Accounts of the Great Arctic Explorers

    by Fridtjof Nansen, Robert Peary, Matthew Henson ...
    Series series Texts of Discovery
    The stories of the first explorers of the Arctic and the North Pole have always been somewhat overshadowed by the famous and tragic race for the South Pole a decade later. In truth the story is no less riveting to the reader, in terms of bravery, resilience and determination.What is more, in an extra dimension to the story there is the enduring controversy over who was in fact the first to make it ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Worst Journey in the World

    The classic Antarctic expedition memoir of endurance, disaster and discovery

    by Apsley Cherry-Garrard ...
    A young member of Scott's expedition records what happens when exploration becomes an ordeal at the limits of human endurance.Apsley Cherry-Garrard was one of the youngest members of Scott's Antarctic team. His account of the expedition follows a journey that went disastrously wrong, capturing the physical horrors faced by the men alongside scientific discovery, extraordinary landscapes and the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Great White South: Or With Scott in the Antarctic

    by Herbert G. Ponting ...
    This classic book contains Ponting's well-written and witty account of Captain Scott's final Antarctic expedition of 1910-12. Fully detailed and with many of Ponting's own photographs, this moving account will make an excellent addition to the bookshelf of any admirer of Captain Scott, or anyone with an interest in travel and adventure. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back 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

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Roald Amundsen Anthology

    'The North West Passage' and, 'The South Pole'

    by Roald Amundsen ...
    Series series Bybliotech Discovery
    The Roald Amundsen Anthology: “The Gjoa Expedition 1903-07”, and “The South Pole, an Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram 1910-1912”.In this Anthology are combined the accounts of both of Amundsen’s two most momentous journeys of exploration; the first successful navigation of the legendary “North West Passage” in 1903-07, and his victory in the race to be the first man to ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD