Antarctic Adventures
Antarctic Adventures

Author: John Barell

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2016-11-18

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1504366522

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Antarctic Adventures is more than a set of guidelines for how to take control of our lives through goal setting, decision making, and problem solving. It is also an approach to living a productive life characterized by inquiry, critical thinking, learning to pay attention to natural wonders, and being fully awake to lifes mysteries and opportunities. Based on the authors experiences exploring Antarctica, this book finds life lessons in the most renowned polar explorers as well as those like Sally Ride, who explored outer space, and successful men and women in sports and business.

Lost Antarctica
Lost Antarctica

Author: James McClintock

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2012-09-18

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780230112452

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The bitter cold and three months a year without sunlight make Antarctica virtually uninhabitable for humans. Yet a world of extraordinary wildlife persists in these harsh conditions, including leopard seals, giant squid, 50-foot algae, sea spiders, coral, multicolored sea stars, and giant predatory worms. Now, as temperatures rise, this fragile ecosystem is under attack. In this closely observed account, one of the world's foremost experts on Antarctica gives us a highly original and distinctive look at a world that we're losing.

Destination
Destination

Author: Robert Swan

Publisher: Scholastic

Published: 1999-05-01

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 9780439087773

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Follows the British adventurer Robert Swan and two other explorers on an exciting and dangerous 900-mile trek to the South Pole, following in the footsteps of Swan's childhood hero, Robert Falcon Scott, who made the journey exactly seventy-four years earlier.

The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913
The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913

Author: Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Publisher: Library of Alexandria

Published: 2020-09-28

Total Pages: 855

ISBN-13: 1613104367

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"The Worst Journey in the World" by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Admiral Richard Byrd
Admiral Richard Byrd

Author: Paul Rink

Publisher: Young Voyageur

Published: 2017-09

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0760354359

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Richard Byrd, survived six months alone at a tiny base in the Antarctic winter. His story is an epic of courage and an indomitable will to live.

Antarctic Adventure
Antarctic Adventure

Author: Sir Vivian Fuchs

Publisher:

Published: 1961

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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The story of the perils and hardships faced by the author and his twelve companions as they journeyed 2000 miles across the Antarctic ice.

Storms, Ice, and Whales
Storms, Ice, and Whales

Author:

Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Company

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 9780802821256

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First published in the Dutch East Indies in 1934 and later in The Netherlands, this account of ven der Does' nine-month journey aboard a whaler sailing to the Antarctic in 1923-24 provides details of the flora and fauna, including penguins and albatross, and describes such natural phenomena as the colors of the ice, the sea, and the sky. He also chronicles in detail the workings of the ship and describes the crew and their tasks. Ven der Does writes of the solitude as "Nowhere else in the world can one so deeply comprehend the meaning of endlessness as at the Pole, with its vast desolation."

Eagle on Ice
Eagle on Ice

Author: Patricia Potter Wilson

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780533159550

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A remarkable story that focuses on the 1928-1930 adventures of nineteen-year-old Paul Siple, the Eagle Scout selected to go on Commander Richard E. Byrd's first expedition to Antarctica.