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The stowaway : a young man's extraordinary adventure to Antarctica2018
Summary: The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York's Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties' most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expedition to Antarctica. It... more »- place hold (0)
added 3 years ago
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In the kingdom of ice : the grand and terrible polar voyage of the U.S.S. Jeannette2014
Summary: In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress of ice rimming the northern oceans,... more »- place hold (0)
added 7 years ago
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Endurance : an epic of polar adventure2000
Summary: "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... more »- place hold (0)
added 15 years ago
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Race to the pole : tragedy, heroism, and Scott's Antarctic quest2004
Summary: The real story of Captain Robert Scott's legendary Antarctic quest, told by the man whom the Guinness Book of World Records has proclaimed "the world's greatest living explorer," Sir... more »- place hold (0)
added 16 years ago
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We die alone1999
Summary: One of the most exciting escape narratives to emerge from the challenges and miseries of World War II chronicles Jan Baalsrud's escape from Nazi-occupied arctic Norway. If this story of espionage and... more »- place hold (0)
added 17 years ago
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Shackleton's forgotten men : the untold tragedy of the endurance epic2000
Summary: This is a dramatic true story of Antarctic tragedy and survival among the heroic group that was to lay supplies across the Great Ross Ice Shelf in preparation for the Endurance expedition. Launched... more »- place hold (0)
added 21 years ago
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The Endurance : Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition1998
Summary: In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed... more »- place hold (0)
added 22 years ago
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