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Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin
RRP: £10.99£7.37_______________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: the remarkable true story of the exploration ship featured in The Terror In the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the first,... -
South: The Endurance Expedition by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
RRP: £9.99£6.77The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was perhaps the most ambitious, elaborate and confident of all the British attempts to master the South Pole. Like the others it ended in disaster, with the Endeavour first trapped and then crushed to pieces in... -
The Worst Journey In The World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
RRP: £12.99£9.74One of the world's greatest works of travel and adventure writing, reissued on its 100th birthday.This is a gripping account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the youngest members of Scott's team, recorded the... -
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration by David Roberts 9780393347784
RRP: £13.99£12.81On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss... -
May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition by Russell A. Potter
£26.39May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth is a privileged glimpse into the private correspondence of the officers and sailors who set out in May 1845 on the Erebus and Terror for Sir John Franklin's fateful expedition to the Arctic.The letters of the crew and... -
Antarctica: A History in 100 Objects by Dr Jean de Pomereu
£18.89This stunning and powerfully relevant book tells the history of Antarctica through 100 varied and fascinating objects drawn from collections around the world. Retracing the history of Antarctica through 100 varied and fascinating objects drawn from... -
N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia by Mark Piesing
RRP: £12.99£8.73"GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." -Wall Street JournalThe riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which... -
Sir John Franklin's Erebus and Terror Expedition: Lost and Found by Gillian Hutchinson
£15.38In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin set out on a voyage to find the North-West Passage - the sea route linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. The expedition was expected to complete its mission within three years and return home in triumph... -
South: The Illustrated Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 by Ernest Henry Shackleton, Sir
RRP: £22.00£15.11Experience in the polar explorer's own words, Ernest Shackleton's thrilling yet ill-fated expedition on the ship Endurance, the wreck of which was discovered off the coast of Antarctica in March 2022.In 1914, Ernest Shackleton announced an ambitious plan... -
I May Be Some Time: The Story Behind the Antarctic Tragedy of Captain Scott by Francis Spufford
RRP: £12.99£9.34'A truly majestic work of scholarship, thought and literary imagination.' Jan Morris, The Times 'Shot through with crystalline brilliance.' Washington Post 'Fascinating.' Sunday Times When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole,... -
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition by Paul Watson 9780393355864
RRP: £12.99£11.99Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845-whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice-with the tale of the incredible discovery of the flagship's wreck in 2014. Paul Watson, who was on the... -
Captain Scott: Journey to the South Pole: Band 08/Purple (Collins Big Cat) by Collins Big Cat
£6.30One hundred years ago, Captain Scott, naval officer and explorer wanted to be the first person to reach the South Pole. Was he the first to reach it? Discover what happened to him and his men when they went to the coldest place on Earth. ... -
In Those Days: Shamans, Spirits, and Faith in the Inuit North by Kenn Harper
RRP: £13.99£9.91In this new collection, Kenn Harper shares tales of Inuit and Christian beliefs and how these came to coexist-and sometimes clash-in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During this period, Anglican and Catholic missionaries came to the North to... -
Endurance by Frank Arthur Worsley 9780393319941
RRP: £15.95£11.79You 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,... -
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition by Paul Watson 9780393249385
RRP: £21.99£19.68Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845-whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice-with the tale of the incredible discovery of the flagship's wreck in 2014. Paul Watson, who was on the... -
The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912 by Captian Roald Amundsen
£19.75Roald Amundsen records his race to be the first man to reach the South Pole. Amundsen's expertise enabled him to succeed where his predecessors, and competitors, did not. His rival Captain Robert F. Scott not only failed to reach the Pole first, but-due... -
The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition by Susan Solomon 9780300099218
£23.10"These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale." So penned Captain Robert Falcon Scott in 1912 as he confronted defeat and death in the crippling subzero temperatures of Antarctica. In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the... -
The Worst Journey in the World: With Scott in Antarctica 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard 9780486477329
£14.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486477329Author Apsley Cherry-GarrardFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 476g -
Penguin Diplomacy: Brian Roberts, polar explorer, treaty maker and conservationist by June Roberts
£14.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861519634Author June RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo Books -
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Anniversary Edition) by Alfred Lansing
RRP: £19.99£11.75In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a... -
True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole by Bruce Henderson 9780393327380
RRP: £15.95£11.73In 1909, two men laid rival claims to this crown jewel of exploration. A century later, the battle rages still. This book is about one of the most enduring and vitriolic feuds in the history of exploration. "What a consummate cur he is," said... -
Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean by Joy McCann
£24.52"The Southern Ocean is a wild and elusive place, an ocean like no other. With its waters lying between the Antarctic continent and the southern coastlines of Australia, New Zealand, South America, and South Africa, it is the most remote and inaccessible... -
Minds of Winter by Ed O'Loughlin
RRP: £9.99£6.73Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017.'Ed O'Loughlin is a skilled cartographer of both the Arctic and the human heart. What a magnificent novel' Ron Rash'A brilliant paean to the obsessions of the polar explorers . . ... -
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie 9781771641739
RRP: £18.95£13.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771641739Author Owen BeattieFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Greystone BooksPublisher Greystone BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm... -
The Race to the White Continent: Voyages to the Antarctic by Alan Gurney 9780393323214
RRP: £20.00£17.77In the 1830s, the forbidding Antarctic region represented the ultimate mystery. The prospect of discovering a lucrative whaling ground made this uncharted and untapped region especially enticing. Three expeditions to the pole were launched simultaneously... -
In Those Days: Arctic Crime and Punishment by Kenn Harper
RRP: £13.99£9.51In this second volume of In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History, Kenn Harper shares the tales of murderers, thieves, and fraudsters--as well as the wrongfully accused--in the early days of Northern colonization. In the nineteenth and... -
Ice Ship - The Epic Voyages of the Polar Adventurer Fram by Charles W. Johnson
£25.12Nominated for Mountbatten Maritime Award 2015 In the golden age of polar exploration (from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s), many an expedition set out to answer the big question-was the Arctic a continent, an open ocean beyond a barrier of ice, or an... -
An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science by Edward J. Larson
£19.35From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a riveting account of the great expeditions of Antarctica's Heroic Age that restores their status as grand scientific enterprises Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the... -
The Last Voyage of the Karluk: A Survivor's Memoir of Arctic Disaster by William Laird McKinlay 9780312206550
RRP: £17.99£12.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312206550Author William Laird McKinlayFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 249g -
Antarctica: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by David Day 9780190641320
RRP: £47.99£34.72Part of the What Everyone Needs to Know (R) series, David Day's book on Antarctica examines the most forbidding and formidably inaccessible continent on Earth. Antarctica was first discovered by European explorers in 1820, and for over a century... -
Journals in Greenland by Hans Egede
RRP: £19.95£16.76Hans Egede's remarkable 1770-1778 journals were first published in 1818 when the British launched their great nineteenth-century Arctic explorations and such information was in enormous demand. The coast of eastern Greenland had been virtually... -
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
RRP: £20.00£13.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307946911Author Hampton SidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Anchor BooksWeight(grams) 408g -
In Those Days: Inuit and Explorers by Kenn Harper
RRP: £14.99£10.13In the fifth volume of the In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History series, Kenn Harper shares tales of European explorers who came to the Arctic seeking adventure, riches, and the elusive Northwest Passage, and Inuit they encountered there... -
Hoosh: Roast Penguin, Scurvy Day, and Other Stories of Antarctic Cuisine by Jason C. Anthony 9780803226661
RRP: £26.95£17.01Antarctica, the last place on Earth, is not famous for its cuisine. Yet it is famous for stories of heroic expeditions in which hunger was the one spice everyone carried. At the dawn of Antarctic cuisine, cooks improvised under inconceivable hardships,... -
To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration by Edward J. Larson 9780062564481
RRP: £17.99£11.19*** National Outdoor Book Award WINNER! *** From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a "suspenseful" (WSJ) and "adrenaline-fueled" (Outside) entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time: in 1909 three daring... -
Antarctica: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by David Day 9780190641313
RRP: £10.99£10.51Part of the What Everyone Needs to Know (R) series, David Day's book on Antarctica examines the most forbidding and formidably inaccessible continent on Earth. Antarctica was first discovered by European explorers in 1820, and for over a century... -
My Attainment of the Pole by Frederick A. Cook 9780815411376
£19.15The subzero temperatures were only one of the dangers explorer Frederick Cook (1865-1940) faced in his attempts to reach the North Pole. During his extraordinary and harrowing journey, he fought off arctic wolves and polar bears, lived through ice... -
Lands that Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland by Spencer Apollonio 9781552382400
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Ice: The Antarctic Diary of Charles F. Passel by Charles F Passel 9780896723474
£29.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Elephant Voyage by Joan Druett 9780992258849
£13.75Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.