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“george marston”

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  • Aurora Australis

    Exploratory Tales from the Icy Expanse: A Journey of Adventure, Survival, and Discovery

    by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, Frank Wild, Tannatt William Edgeworth David, George Marston, Alistair Mackay, James Murray, Douglas Mawson ...
    Aurora Australis is a profound tapestry of exploration narratives and evocative descriptions capturing the indomitable spirit of the early 20th-century Antarctic expeditions. This anthology weaves together a medley of styles ranging from scientific treatises to poignant personal reflections, offering an immersive experience into the frosty climes and the heart of human courage. The diverse ... Read more

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  • Aurora Australis

    Writings, Science, Verse, and Illustrations from Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition

    by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, Frank Wild, Tannatt William Edgeworth David, George Marston, Alistair Mackay, James Murray, Douglas Mawson ...
    Aurora Australis is an extraordinary Antarctic miscellany, produced during the winter quarters of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907–09. Combining expedition narrative, lyric verse, comic sketches, scientific reflection, satire, songs, and visual art, it records both the hardships and imaginative resourcefulness of life on the ice. Its pages move between heroic exploration and domestic ... Read more

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  • Aurora Australis

    by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, Frank Wild, Tannatt William Edgeworth David, George Marston, Alistair Mackay, James Murray, Douglas Mawson ...
    Aurora Australis offers readers an immersive journey into the heart of early 20th-century Antarctic exploration, capturing the raw beauty and daunting challenges of the icy continent. This pioneering anthology, assembled amidst the unyielding conditions at the Antarctic basecamp during the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-1909, brims with a tapestry of adventurous narratives and reflective ... Read more

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    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

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  • Castaway!

    by Robert Carter ...
    The story of a stranding alone, on an island off the coast of New Zealand, of an English Clergyman. His survival, despair, and joy at rescue. ... Read more

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  • Eyewitness Accounts With Scott in the Antarctic

    by Herbert Ponting ...
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    '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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  • Life with the Esquimaux 1860-1862

    by A H Guernsey ...
    An early exploration briefly describes life with the Inuit peoples during the mid nineteenth century. Illustrated. ... Read more

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  • The Bottle Imp

    by Robert Louis Stevenson ...
    Short story set in Hawaii. According to the Author's Note: "Any student of that very unliterary product, the English drama of the early part of the century, will here recognise the name and the root idea of a piece once rendered popular by the redoubtable O. Smith. The root idea is there and identical, and yet I hope I have made it a new thing. And the fact that the tale has been designed and ... Read more

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  • The Mermaid's Prophecy and Other Stories

    Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection

    by T. Crofton Croker ...
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    Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post’s Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic.From T.Crofton Croker ... Read more

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  • The Decoying and Trapping of Birds and Animals - With Notes on Lark Mirrors

    by M. Browne, J. E. Harting ...
    Originally published in 1883. A compilation of fascinating and comprehensive advice and information. This well illustrated book deals with all manner of decoying and trapping methods used in the past by gamekeepers, poachers and bird collectors. ... Read more

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  • The Ends of the Earth

    An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic

    by Elizabeth Kolbert, Francis Spufford ...
    An innovatively packaged literary anthology published to commemorate the International Polar Year-and remind us what we're in danger of losing.The Arctic and Antarctic ice shelves have been an object of obsession for as long as we've known they existed. Countless explorers, such as Richard Byrd, Ernest Shackleton, and Robert Falcon Scott, have risked their lives to chart their frozen landscapes. ... Read more

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  • The Best Fishing Stories Ever Told

    Edited by Nick Lyons ...
    Series series Best Stories Ever Told
    The Best Fishing Stories Ever Told celebrates the art of hunting fish at many angles. This ancient tradition is practiced all over the world. Tales of baiting, angling, and the watery outdoors are recounted by great writers such as Rudyard Kipling, Guy de Maupassant, and Lord Byron. In scenic rivers, lakes, and seas, praise the trout, snap up that salmon, angle, aim, and sing the fisherman’s song! ... Read more

    $8.99 USD