By Charles Swithinbank

Reflections upon forty years of exploration and research on the frozen continent.

Published: 1996 by The McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, Blacksburg, Virginia

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By Judy Skelton

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By Stephanie Barczewski

Stephanie Barczewski looks afresh at the two most famous expeditions of the heroic age of antarctic exploration, Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition of 1910-12 and Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition of 1914-16.

Published: 2007 by Continuum Books

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By Beau Riffenburgh

In 1911 Douglas Mawson organised and led the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) - a scientific investigation of the Antarctic on a scale never before considered. At the same time it was responsible foir the exploration of vastly more territory than any other Antarctic expedition. It consisted of three land bases operated by 32 men, seven major sledging journeys (as well as numerous shorter ones), and a full oceanographic programme in addition to its shorebased scientific studies. Yet what was intended by Mawson to be a scientific exercise devoid of heroic adventure, also proved to be a tale of death, determination, and raw courage.

The late Sir Edmund Hillary described it as "the greatest survival story in the history of exploration". The dynamic character of Mawson, the expedition's sheer scale, and that most of what happened on it has never entered the public consciousness were very appealing reasons to investigate such an epic venture. The result is the first examination of the full expedition since Mawson's "The Home of the Blizzard" was published in 1915.

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By Bryan Lintott

The British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) was the first British expedition to explore and make a scientific study of the Antarctic Peninsula. A team of enthusiastic and adventurous young explorers and scientists lived, worked and travelled Antarctica for almost three years. Their aptitude for innovation and intensive research laid the foundations of modern British Antarctic science.

Published: 2010 by Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England

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By Felicity Aston

Could you ski to the South Pole? That was the challenge that British Adventurer, Felicity Aston put to women from around the Commonwealth as she set out to create the most international all-female expedition ever to the South Pole.

The team would not be experienced explorers but 'ordinary' women who wanted to inspire others to follow their dreams or make a change for the better in their lives. She received more than 800 applications and embarked on a three-month journey around the world to interview candidates. 'What is skiing?' was the question that greeted her in Ghana. At the close of 2009, Felicity led a team from places as diverse as Jamaica, India, Singapore and Cyprus - some of whom had never even seen snow or spent the night in a tent before joining the expedition - on a 900 km skiing trek across the Antarctic, one of the toughest and most notoriously hazardous journeys on the planet. Eighty-mile-an-hour winds ripped through base camp; frostbite and injuries were an everyday occurrence; and, deadly crevasses emerged from the cracking ice beneath their feet. But they also shared beliefs, ideas, philosophies and laughter, made lasting memories and broke no less than six World Records.

Published: 2011 by Summersdale

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By Robert Keith Headland

A historical chronology of all Antarctic regions compiled during 25 years at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. This book lists the voyages to the far southern parts of the Earth, in particular to Antarctica, from those directly engaged in exploration and research, sealers and whalers exploiting its resources, to those accidental discoveries made by early merchants blown off course.

The author is happy to provide signed copies on request.

Published: 2009 by Bernard Quaritch Ltd

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By JOHN THOMSON

In 1957 on the Antarctic Plateau Sir Edmund Hillary, the great New Zealand mountaineer, raced his expedition leader, Vivian Fuchs, to the South Pole for reasons that were never fully explained. Hilary's actions threw Fuchs' Trans Antarctic Expedition (TAE) into confusion. Examining records that could explain why Hilary acted as he did took the writer into part of the history of the TAE: the part that somehow had escaped close examination for around half a century. CLIMBING THE POLE is the result.

Published: 2010 by The Erskine Press

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By Richard Pierce

The discovery of Captain Scott's body in the Antarctic in November 1912 started a global obsession with him as a man and an explorer. But one mystery remains - why did he and his companions spend their last ten days in a tent only 11 miles from the safety of a depot that promised food and shelter? Birdie Bowers, a notoriously secretive painter, is a woman with a dead man's name. Her parents were fascinated by her relative, Henry 'Birdie' Bowers, one of Scott's companions.

And a hundred years after his death, she is determined to discover what really happened to him. On her way to an exhibition of things recovered from Scott's tent, she collapses, and is rescued by Adam, who falls in love with her, and agrees to travel with her to the Antarctic to discover the site of Scott's tent, and the resting place of the man she was named after, now under 30 metres of ice. Dead Men tells the story of two paths.

One is a tragic journey of exploration on the world's coldest continent, the other one of present-day passion. Dead Men explores the weight of the past and the redemptive power of love.

Published: 2012 by Duckworth

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By David Tatham

The Dictionary of Falklands Biography describes people concerned with the history of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia from the first discoverers in the 16th century up to the eve of the Falklands conflict of 1982. Entries range from brief notes on lesser personalities to essays of 3,000 words on some of the leading figures.
The Dictionary contains great explorers like James Cook, Bougainville, Bellingshausen and Ernest Shackleton; political figures - ministers, a king, one saint, British, French, Argentine and Spanish governors; and naval commanders involved in heroic exploration and dramatic battles. Special interests include students of natural history and the environment, from Charles Darwin to recent ornithologists; geologists; farmers and agriculturalists; sailors, whalers and sealers; philatelists and a wide range of native Falkland Islanders from pillars of the community to the decidedly eccentric.

Published: 2009 by

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By Beau Riffenburgh

Douglas Mawson is often considered the greatest figure in the history of Antarctic science. After making a record-setting sledging journey on Ernest Shackleton's first expedition, he organised and led the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, at that time the most intensive scientific effort planned in the far south. On this expedition, Mawson made a remarkable solo journey described as "the greatest survival story in the history of exploration". This booklet examines Mawson's life and expeditions, including his incredible tale of death, determination and courage.

Published: 2010 by Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England

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By John Kelly

Due South catalogues moments in time experienced during a journey to Antarctica, the last great wilderness. As selected artist with the British Antarctic Survey, this work is an attempt to present the reality of Antarctica, not simply a visual record, but an account of the emotions and fleeting thoughts of life in the 'freezer'.

Published: 2004 by Signal Books

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By Anthea Arnold

Once the pole had been 'conquered' by Amundsen and Scott, the next great journey was the crossing of the Antarctic continent, first attempted by Filchner in 1912 and then by Shackleton in 1914. As part of the International Geophysical Year, the Trans-Antarctic Expedition was set up, with Vivian Fuchs in charge. He would start from a base on the Weddell Sea and after reaching the Pole continue to the Ross Sea, using supply depots laid by a New Zealand team, led by the conqueror of Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary. In January 1956, an advance party of eight men was left at Shackleton base to build accommodation, explore and lay depots to ease the passage of Fuch's team the following year.
The achievement of this expedition still resonates today but the near death experience of the Advance Party at Shackleton base has been largely forgotten. The eight men left only just survived in a dreadful Antarctic winter, living by day in a sno-cat crate and sleeping in tents at night while trying to erect a poorly designed hut with inadequate manpower and equipment. The loss of much of their stores put their survival on a knife edge.

Published: 2007 by The Erskine Press

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By JOHN THOMSON

The life and diaries of Thomas Orde Lees. The aristocracy of Antarctic exploration does not include the name of Thomas Orde Hans Lees. He came away from Shackleton's 1914 expedition with the reputation of being the elast popular and most criticised of the men involved in the Endurance adventire in the Weddell Sea. Previous accounts of Shackleton's adventure have unfailingly mentioned that Orde Lees was unpopular. Though they have plundered his journal for much of the detail of life on board Endurance, on the pack ice and finally on Elephant Island, the part he played in keeping the men alive has not been recoginsed. This book is a long overdue testament to a much misunderstood - and probably unfairly maligned man.

Published: 2003 by The Erskine Press

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By EDWARD J LARSON

This fascinating new account of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration is the first book to place the famed expeditions of British explorers Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, the Norwegian rival Roald Amundsen, and others in a larger scientific, social and geopolitical context.

Published: 2011 by Yale University Press, New Haven and London

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By Alfred Lansing

Endurance is a re-creation of Sir Ernest Shackleton's epic adventure in the Antarctic - one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded.

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By Charles Swithinbank

The first international expedition (1949-52) through the eyes of its youngest member.

Published: 1999 by The Book Guild Ltd., Lewes, Sussex, England

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By Leif Mills

"Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages. Bitter cold. Long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful....." What sort of men would this apocryphal advertisement attract?
None but the brave. Frank Wild was one of those Argonauts who battled against the elements in the frozen lands. When some of the men who had been isolated with the Ross Sea party were eventually rescued, the captain described them as: "Just about the wildest looking gang of men I have ever seen in my life. Smoke-bleared eyes looked out from grey, haggard faces; their hair was matted and uncut; their beards were impregnated with soot and grease. Their speech was jerky, semi-hysterical and almost unintelligible...." Despite the unending hardships, Wild undertook more antarctic exploration voyages than any of his contemporaries over a period of twenty years. This is his story.

Published: 2007 by Caedmon of Whitby, Yorkshire, England

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By Paul Davies

Captain Robert Scott led two expeditions to the Antarctic and Sir Ernest Shackleton led three. Each of these expeditions has strong connections with Plymouth and South Devon, with many of the crew and scientists having been recruited from this area.

By examining the contribution of these men to the expeditions and indentifying the many polar memorials and landmarks in Devon, this inspiring period of Antarctic Exploration (1901-22) is brought vividly to life.

Published: 2011 by Kingsbridge Books

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By Stephen Haddelsey

Much has been written on Antarctic explorer, Ernest Shackleton. This is the story of the Endurance expeditions other hero, Joseph Russell Stenhouse (1887 1941) who, as Captain of the SS Aurora, freed the ship from pack ice and rescued the survivors of the Ross Sea shore party, deeds for which he was awarded the Polar Medal and the OBE. He was also recruited for special operations in the Arctic during the First World War, became involved in the Allied intervention in Revolutionary Russia, and was later appointed to command Captain Scott s Discovery. Stenhouse was one of the last men to qualify as a sea captain during the age of sail.

Published: 2008 by The History Press Ltd

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By Henry Worsley

'In Shackleton's Footsteps' is a thrilling combination of historical and contemporary adventure and recounts the most ambitious of centenary celebrations.

In 1908, the legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton led a group of three men on a daring and death-defying attempt to become the first men to reach to reach the South Pole.

Exactly one hundred years later, a team of three men led by Henry Worsley decided to retrace the 820 mile route that Shackleton and his men had taken, then to go on to finish the journey to the Pole. Inspired by Shackleton's spirit, courage and peerless leadership, Worsley walks in his hero's footsteps and comes to truly understand the limits of human endeavour.

Published: 2011 by Virgin Books

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By DIXIE DANSERCOER and ALAIN HUBERT

On 4th November 1997, two Belgian explorers, Alain Hubert and Dixie Dansercoer, set out on an incredible journey. From the coast of Dronning Maud Land they headed south through the most inhospitable terrain in the world to the American base at McMurdo Sound. They intended to cross the Antarctic continent from South to North without any outside assistance.

Published: 2001 by Bluntisham Books, Huntingdon, England

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By Robert Keith Headland

South Georgia is a remote and beautiful island with a varied and intriguing history. This extensively illustrated book is the only comprehensive account of the island, combining historical, geographical, commercial, scientific and political events in a remarkable tour de force. The account is written by a former officer of the British Antarctic Survey, Robert Headland, who spent several periods of scientific duty on the island, the first of these in 1977 greatly stimulating his interest in all aspects of this unique environment. He was present on the island in 1982 during the invasion by the Argentinians, and was personally involved with the events there until he surrendered the civilian population of the scientific station and was taken prisoner by Argentinian forces. Details of these and other events connected with the invasion are included in this book.

Signed copies by the author are available on request.

Published: 1992 by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England

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By Lara Dagnell and Hilary Shibata

The Japanese Antarctic Expedition, 1910-12, under the leadership of army lieutenant Nobu Shirase was the first exploration of Antarctic territory by Japan. After initial scepticism about the expedition, they sailed from Tokyo on 29th November 1910, in Kainan-maru, a vessel only 100 feet in length. They arrived in Wellington on 8th February 191 and three days later departed for the Antarctic

416pp, 8pp colour, 100 photographs and illustrations.

Published: 2011 by The Erskine Press

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By Kelly Tyler-Lewis

In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set forth to make history with the first-ever crossing of the Antarctic continent. He sailed into the Weddell Sea aboard the Endurance, while a ship called the Aurora sailed into the Ross Sea to create a lifeline of vital food and fuel depots to supply the epic crossing. Yet all went tragically wrong when the Aurora broke free of her moorings in an Antarctic gale and stranded ten men ashore. Left with little more than the clothing on their backs and scavenged equipment, the men vowed to carry on in the face of impossible odds. Meanwhile the rest of the Aurora crew, cast adrift at the mercy of the elements, battled for survival. The lost men struggled to save themselves and carry out their mission with little hope of rescue...

Published: 2006 by Bloomsbury Publishing, London

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By Damien Gildea

Antarctica is home to one of the greatest collections of unclimbed mountains on earth, but Antacrtica is not unexplored. The mountains of Antarctica have a rich history that spans a century. his comprehensive overview of mountaineering in Antarctica encompasses journeys from the Heroic Age of Antarctic exloration, through the expansion of international scientific activity in the later half of the Twentieth Century, up to the modern advenure tourism of the new millenium.

Published: 2010 by Editions Nevicata

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By Caroline Alexander

In the annals of expeditionary history, Sir Ernest Shackleton's South - his acount of the legendary Endurance expedition - stands out as a classic. Until now however, another stiring record of this ill-fated 1914-1915 journey to the Antarctic has remained confined to the attention of specialists and scholars. It is the remarkable journal of the ship's cat, Mrs Chippy, who accompanies the carpenter Harry "Chippy" McNeish from their home in Cathcart, Scotland.

Published: 1998 by Bloomsbury Publishing, London

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By Roald Amundsen

"My Life as an Explorer" is a classic of Polar literature, written by the one man to do more to further the exploration of both Polar regions than any other person. First sailing to the Antarctic in the 1899 Belgain expedition, Amundsen never lost his passion for exploring, following this trip with a journey around the top of Canada to prove the existence of the North West Passage between 1903 and 1906. Setting sail for the Antarctic a full month or so after Scott, Amundsen still managed to beat the British team to the Pole by a full month. Making a lot of money out of shipping during the First World War, Amundsen followed his epic journeys by being only the second man to travel round the top of Siberia from Atlantic to Pacific oceans, then flying over the North Pole by airship. The first man to travel to both ends of the world, Amundsen died in a plane crash in 1928, while searching for a missing polar expedition.

Published: 2008 by Amberley Publishing

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By Tom Smith

Comprising an account of his early life, adoption by the gipsys; his travels during eighteen voyages to various parts of the world, during which he was five times shipwrecked; thrice on a desolate island near the south pole, once on the coast of England and once on the coast of Africa.

Thomas Smith was born around 1801, under another (yet undetermined) name. At the age of seven or eight he ran away from home, first living with a band of Gypsies and then going to sea on a collier. The rest of his life was at sea. He was serving on naval transports in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars before absconding. Then he made four Antarctic sealing voyages, three to South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and one to the South Shetland Islands on their discovery. The Falkland Islands were a port of call on the way south.

Thence when serving in the Sperm Whale industry in the Pacific Ocean he became associated with the revolutionary wars in South America to the east and the Maori conflicts to the west. He landed on the Galapagos Islands and Easter Island while following whales through the Pacific islands from New Zealand to Japan.

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By Simon Beaufort

On 30th July 1907, members of the British Antarctic Expedition, led by Ernest Shackleton, sailed down the Thames on the tiny, refurbished sealer Nimrod. In the worldwide fame and glory that followed the return of Shackleton's party to civilisation, little was ever said about a dark incident that almost halted the expedition before it had even sailed.

On the eve of departure of the Nimrod, the body of the assistant biologist was found in the East India Docks. Without a doubt he had been murdered. Raymond Priestley, just short of his 21st birthday, had been appointed expedition geologist and was one of the first on the scene and it fell to him to undertake an investigation, along with Inspector William Taylor, an old school friend of Shackleton's, into the events surrounding this dark deed. He had no knowledge of the danger into which he would soon be plunged.

Published: 2011 by The Erskine Press

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By Beau Riffenburgh

Ernest Shackleton and the extraordinary story of the 1907-09 British Antarctic Expedition.

Published: 2004 by Bloomsbury Publishing, London

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By David M. Wilson

To celebrate the centenary of one of the most exciting expeditions of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration comes "Nimrod Illustrated". The book is a remarkable collage of expedition photographs, paintings and ephemera in a deliberate reminiscence of the expedition scrapbooks kept by so many of the expedition participants at the time. Many of the images are rarely seen, if ever before published, whilst others are better known. Together with quotations from the diaries of expedition participants, they tell the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 which saw the first use of ponies and motor cars in the Antarctic; achieved the first ascent of Mount Erebus; achieved the first attainment of the south Magnetic Pole; and, took Shackleton within 100 miles of the South Geographic Pole to attain a dramatic new 'Farthest South' record. This was the expedition that made Shackleton's name as an explorer and for which he was awarded his knighthood. Edited by Dr D M Wilson, "Nimrod Illustrated" is a treat for anyone interested in Shackleton, the Antarctic, polar exploration or the atmosphere of the Edwardian age. It is a part of the well regarded series commenced with "Discovery Illustrated: Pictures from Captain Scott's First Antarctic Expedition" (2001).

Published: 2009 by Reardon Publishing, Cheltenham, England

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By Kevin Walton and Rick Atkinson

The Illustrated Story of the Dogs of the British Antarctic Survey
1944 - 1994

Of Dogs and Men is a book for all dog lovers and would-be adventurers. A nostalgic look back at a unique period in history, it is also indicative of a relationship that is fundamental and has stood the test of time - one of affection, respect and, in many cases, utter dependency.
Kevin Walton, who witnessed the arrival of the dogs in the 1940s, and Rick Atkinson, who was in Antarctica when the use of dogs was coming to an end, are well placed to tell the story in its entirety; from collecting the dogs in Greenland and Labrador; through developing aspects of training, nutrition, breeding and sledging; to the advent of motorised vehicles, the phasing out of dogs and the final journey that took them to new homes in Canada.
Superb photographs from around thirty contributors all of whom worked with the dogs at some point during the last fifty years, tell stories that are triumphant and tragic, funny and sad, earthy and mystical. They also reveal the dogs as courageous, hard-working individuals, to whom we owe a debt of gratitude; for it is to them as much as to men that we owe the pioneering achievements that have taken place in Antarctica.

Published: 1996 by Image Publishing (Malvern) Ltd

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By Rorke Bryan

Antarctica is surrounded by some of the world's most hazardous seas and was first sighted less than three centuries ago. Since then, ships have been of vital importance in Antarctic exploration. Expeditions were challenged by poorly charted waters, violent storms, pack ice, icebergs and disease. Frequently, the success of expeditions was determined by the qualities of the ships involved. The pivotal importance of ships and ship design has been largely ignored in Antarctic literature. This is the story of these ships - some specially designed, some plucked from obscurity - and the critical role they played in opening up the continent, from the hypothetical earliest sightings by the fleets of the Ming emperors of China in the 15th century right upto the tourist ships and sophisticated reinforced research vessels of today. Using extensive research in archives, museums, libraries and private sources in many parts of the world, Rorke Bryan brings the detailed information about the ships into a single, comprehensive record. It contains technical information, plans, photos, paintings and maps, and describes the expeditions and exploratory activities in which the ships took part. This authoritative work fills an important gap in Antarctic literature.

Published: 2011 by Seaforth Publishing

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By Richard McElrea & David Harrowfield

The Ross Sea Party (1914-17) of Sir Ernest Shackleton

When SirErnest Shackleton's dreams of crossing Antarctica foundered with his expedition ship 'Endurance' in the ice of the Weddel Sea in October 1915, he could only wonder what had become of his support party on the other side of the continent.

This book tells that story. The task of the Ross Sea component of the expedition was to lay the all-important depots in support of the traverse party to be led by Shackleton.

Remarkably 'Polar Castaways' provides the first in-depth account of the Ross Sea party, the drift of 'Aurora' and the relief expedition under the command of polar veteran Captain J. K. Davis.

This book fills one of the last major gaps in the literature of the 'heroic age' of polar exploration.

Published: 2004 by Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand

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By David Yelverton

The saga of the pioneer Antarctic Peninsula expeditions 1897-1905.

Published: 2004 by Polar Publishing Limited, Guildford, Surrey, UK

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By Angie Butler

This books tells the story of the final years of Frank Wild, one of the greatest British Edwardian Polar explorers of all time. Frank Wild, Sir Ernest Shackleton's closest friend and right hand man was the only explorer to serve on five expeditions to the Antarctic during the Heroic Age.

Published: 2011 by Jackleberry Press

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By Beau Riffenburgh

Racing with Death tells the breathtaking story of Douglas Mawson's Antarctic expeditions, in which he more than once narrowly escaped with his life. His solitary struggle against the odds on his Australasian Antarctic Expedition was described by Sir Edmund Hillary as "The greatest survival story in the history of exploration".

Mawson had been a key member of Shackleton's 1907-09 Nimrod expedition, when he was nearly lost down a crevasse. In 1911 his own Australasian Antarctic Expedition set off for the great white south, establishing base at Cape Denison, which proved to be the windiest place on Earth. Mawson sent out numerous sledging parties to explore different areas. But when first one and then the other of the two members of Mawson's party died, he was left to struggle the hundreds of miles back to base on his own. Despite terrible hardships he made it, only to find that the rescue ship had sailed away, leaving him to face another year in the Antarctic.

Mawson later led a two-year expedition that explored hundreds of miles of unknown coastline. Scientifically and geographically speaking, Mawsons' expeditions were truly groundbreaking, and established Australia as a key player in the Antarctic. Mawson himself, who had complex relationships with both Scott and Shackleton, was changed utterly by his struggles in that harshest of environments and his story, brilliantly told by Beau Riffenburgh, is a fascinating insight into the human psyche under extreme duress.

Published: 2008 by Bloomsbury Publishing, London

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By Emily Shackleton and Hugh Robert Mill

The private correspondence of Emily Shackleton and Hugh Robert Mill, 1922-33. Edited by Michael Rosove.

Published: 2007 by Adélie Books

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By Beau Riffenburgh

Roald Amundsen was a giant in the history of exploration - the most successful of all polar explorers. He participated in the first wintering in the Antarctic, was the first man to navigate the Northwest Passage, became the first person to reach the South Pole, then was the first to attain the North Pole, and finally became the first to cross the Arctic basin. This SPRI booklet overviews the life, expeditions, and remarkable achievements of this accomplished Norwegian explorer.

Published: 2010 by Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England

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By Tor Bomann-Larsen

On 14th December 1911, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team became the first human beings to reach the South Pole, just over a month before Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova expedition. Written by the Norwegian author Tor Bomann-Larsen, and with a foreword by Polar explorer Pen Hadow, this biography draws on an incredible discovery of over 15,000 letters and papers in a barn outside Oslo and looks beyond the familiar image of Amundsen. Together with vivid first-hand accounts from Amundsen and his crew, the explorer's life is revealed to an extent that has never before been possible.

Published: 1995 by The History Press Ltd

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By ROALD AMUNDSEN

A century ago, a Belgian expedition headed for the Antarctic on board the Belgica, August 1897-November 1899. It was the first Antarctic expedition of a purely scientific nature and the journey provided a wealth of information. The Antarctic explorers were destined never to reach the pole but they became the first people to winter on the Antarctic ice. Amundsen wrote this diary for his own personal use and it provides a fascinating insight into the struggle for survival on the ice during the Antarctic winter and into the pressures involved in being part of a multinational crew.

Published: 1999 by

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By Roald Amundsen

The Fram Museum is proud to make Roald Amundsen's diaries from the South Pole Expedition available to the public for the first time, almost a hundred years after they were written. The Amundsen diaries give readers the oportunity to travel back in time to one of the highlights of international polar exploration.

Published: 2010 by The Fram Museum

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By R. W. Richards

After failing to reach the South Pole by only 97 miles on his 'Nimrod' expedition, Ernest Shackelton decided that on his next trip he would be even more adventurous - he would cross the Antarctic continent via the Pole.

His ship, the 'Endurance', would land the crossing party in the Weddell Sea whilst 'Aurora' would land a team in McMurdo Sound whose task it would be to lay food depots every 60 miles, as far south as the Beardmore Glacier.

The story of the'Endurance' is well known but the struggles of the Ross Sea Party have almost been ignored - unfairly so. It is one of the really notable polar journeys - ten men marooned with none of their own fuel, clothes or stores, yet by improvisation managing to stock depots for men who would never come.

Three men were lost and all the party suffered appalling privations before they were rescued. Their determination to succeed against all odds epitomises the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

Published: 2003 by Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England

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By Regina W Daly

Ernest Shackleton was obsessed by the Antarctic. He had written to his sister saying "You can't think what it is like to walk over places where no man has walked before." He was disappointed at his showing during Scott's Discovery Expedition - he had collapsed and Scott sent him back on the relief ship in 1903, because of his 'ill health'.

He wanted to be first to the South Pole, partly for the glory, partly for the fortune he expected to enjoy as a result of his explorations, but also because he felt he had to redeem himself.

Raising the money for the expedition was fraught with difficulties but in 1907 he finally set sail, aboard the Nimrod.

Here, gathered together for the first time, are 165 letters and telegrams exploring the inner workings of an heroic man with far-reaching dreams. His emotions are revealed through personal correspondence with Scott, Dr Edward Wilson, Sir Clements Markham and others. Many of the letters were written to him or about him and they show how the people in his world responded to him and to each other. The last section of the book reproduces Shackleton's intimate letters to his wife, Emily and to Elspeth Beardmore, for whom he had a deep affection.

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Published: 2009 by The Erskine Press

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By Jonathan Shackleton

Eighty years after his death, the legend of Ernest Shackleton and the extraordinary story of the Endurance South Pole expedition still hold a compelling grip on the public imagination. Trapped in drifting polar pack ice, Ernest Shackleton and his crew fought for survival against all the odds. When the Endurance was finally crushed, they were stranded on ice-floes for more than a year before reaching Elephant Island in April 1916. From there Shackleton and his five men embarked on the most remarkable rescue mission in maritime history, sailing to south Georgia across eight hundred miles of the world's roughest seas in a small open boat.

Despite failing to realize his dream of reaching the South Pole, Shackleton's story lives on because of his unique qualities of leadership and the fact that all his men survived. This compelling narrative reveals the profound influence of Shackleton's Irish and Quaker roots, offering a vivid portrait of a man whose ambition was tempered by his flawed humanity and egalitarianism. Here too are the untold stories of Shackleton's upbringing in Kildare; his time in the Merchant Navy; his 1901 voyage on the discovery with Scott; his 1907 Nimrod expedition; his marriage and love affairs; his life as public figure and politician; and the haunting story of his final, fatal expedition on the Quest.

Drawing on family records, diaries and letters - and hitherto unpublished photographs and archive material - this mesmerizing biography takes us beyond the myth to Shackleton the man, for whom 'Optimisim is true moral courage,' and whose greatest triumph was that of life over death.

Published: 2002 by Lilliput Press, Dublin

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By Robert Burton and Stephen Venables

This booklet is produced by Robert Burton in aid of the restauration of the Manager's House, the "Villa", at Stromness whaling station, where Shackleton and his two companions completed their journey to get help for their comrades on Elephant Island.

Published: 2001 by Robert Burton

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By F A Worsley

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	Introduction by Sara Wheeler. This is the classic account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated Antarctic expedition of 1914-16 told by Frank Worsley, captain of the expedition ship, Endurance. First trapped then crushed by ice, the Endurance drifted in an ice floe for five months before reaching the barren and inhospitable Elephant Island. Certain that no rescue party would ever find them, Shackleton, Worsley and four others set off in a small boat for South Georgia leaving behind 22 men whose survival depended on the success of this desperate gamble. In a remarkable feat of courage, they made the 800-mile journey in just two weeks under the most appalling conditions imaginable. Shackleton's Boat Journey vividly recreates this extraordinary story of survival and paints a vivid portrait of one of the world's greatest explorers.		1999 by Pimlico, London	£10.99 (VAT not chargeable)
	Introduction by Hugh Andrew. This is the classic account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated Antarctic expedition of 1914-16 told by Frank Worsley, captain of the expedition ship, Endurance. First trapped then crushed by ice, the Endurance drifted in an ice floe for five months before reaching the barren and inhospitable Elephant Island. Certain that no rescue party would ever find them, Shackleton, Worsley and four others set off in a small boat for South Georgia leaving behind 22 men whose survival depended on the success of this desperate gamble. In a remarkable feat of courage, they made the 800-mile journey in just two weeks under the most appalling conditions imaginable. Shackleton's Boat Journey vividly recreates this extraordinary story of survival and paints a vivid portrait of one of the world's greatest explorers.		2007 by Birlinn Limited, Edinburgh	£9.99 (VAT not chargeable)
	No Introduction. This is the classic account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated Antarctic expedition of 1914-16 told by Frank Worsley, captain of the expedition ship, Endurance. First trapped then crushed by ice, the Endurance drifted in an ice floe for five months before reaching the barren and inhospitable Elephant Island. Certain that no rescue party would ever find them, Shackleton, Worsley and four others set off in a small boat for South Georgia leaving behind 22 men whose survival depended on the success of this desperate gamble. In a remarkable feat of courage, they made the 800-mile journey in just two weeks under the most appalling conditions imaginable. Shackleton's Boat Journey vividly recreates this extraordinary story of survival and paints a vivid portrait of one of the world's greatest explorers.	http://www.narrativepress.com	2001 by Narrative Press	£8.09 (VAT not chargeable)

By Stephen Haddelsey

Shackleton's Dream tells for the first time the story of the British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary, the conqueror of Everest. Forty years after the loss of Endurance, they set out to succeed where Shackleton had so heroically failed. Using motor-sledges and converted farm tractors in place of Shackleton's man-hauled sledges, they faced a colossal challenge: a perilous 2,000 mile journey across the most demanding landscape on the planet, where temperatures can plunge to a staggering -129deg F and bitter katabatic winds rush down from the high Polar Plateau carrying dense clouds of drift snow, which blind and disorientate.

Published: 2012 by The History Press Ltd

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By LENNARD BICKEL

When Ernest Shackleton resolved to cross Antarctica in 1915, he know the task would require two parties of men. Shackleton and his crew aimed to cross the continent - but were to meet with disaster when their ship, the Endurance, was frozen into the ice of the Weddell Sea. Meanwhile a smaller group - The Ross Sea party, led by the impetuous one-eyed captain Aeneas Mackintosh and the hard-headed Ernest Joyce - went before them and landed on the opposite side of the continent. Their mission was to haul sledges almost 2,000 miles across the harsh interior in order to set up a lifeline of depots for the coming Shackleton party. However, like the men of the Endurance, this group also lost their ship, the Aurora - along with their supplies - when a ferocious polar gale ripped it from its moorings. But Mackintosh and his men, who knew that their failure would doom Shackleton's party to starvation, refused to give up.

Published: 2001 by Pimlico, London

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By Margot Morrell

Leadership lessons from the great Antarctic explorer! Written by two veteran business observers, 'Shackleton's Way' details universal leadership tactics set against the thrilling survival story of the Endurance expedition.

A New York Times Business Bestseller.

Published: 2001 by Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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By Bjorn L. Basberg

This book reviews the history of South Georgia from the early discoveries, the sealing industry of the 19th century, the whaling industry of the 20th century and the development afterwards, when the attitude towards the former whaling stations gradually shifted from being seen as mere scrap to being considered cultural heritage.

Published: 2004 by Novus forlag

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By Ernest Shackleton

This is Ernest Shackleton's gripping account of the doomed Endurance voyage. Setting out on the eve of World War I, he wanted to be the first to cross the last unknown continent but the exploration was plagued with problems.

Published: 2004 by Penguin Books, London, England

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By Robert Burton

This book describes the history of the British Antarctic Territory published by UKAHT (UK Antarctic Heritage Trust) with a foreword by UKAHT's Patron HRH The Princess Royal.

Published: 2008 by UKAHT

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By John Rymill

Southern Lights is the story of the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) led by John Rymill. Often described as the last of the heroic Antarctic expeditions, it was the first scientific venture to the southern continent to incorporate the use of modern technologies of communication and transport with traditional polar methods developed in the Arctic. The BGLE set a pattern of living and working in the Antarctic which influenced all the expeditions that followed.

Many of the young men who journeyed south with Rymill on Penola, a three-masted sailing vessel, had gained experience of Arctic exploration under Gino Watkins. Only four of the sixteen men had previous sailing experience, but Rymill had chosen his team well. His account documents their voyage, the establishment of their bases, almost 3 years of work on the Antarctic Peninsula and their developing expertise with aircraft, dog-teams and polar field work, which was to provide a model for successful Antarctic exploration.

Published: 2012 by SPRI in association with UKAHT

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By Cornelia Ludecke and Colin Summerhayes

The origins of the Third German Antarctic Expedition lie in a unique combination of the aspirations of German scientists to contribute to exploring and understanding the Antarctic environment and the Nazi Party's drive for self-sufficiency on the road to war. Germany had joined the whaling nations in the South Atlantic, keen to obtain whale oil without having to use valuable currency reserves needed for rearmament. It decided to explore the possibility of setting up a supply base on the coast of Dronning Maud Land and to claim Antarctic territory there for itself.

Published: 2012 by The Erskine Press

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By David Price

David Price tells of life at Port Lockroy during the late 1950s, a five man static base dedicated to the science of ionospheres during the last years of the ‘Golden Age’ of Antarctic exploration.
In 1957, this young Englishman joined an expedition to the Antarctic. He was only twenty-two years old. It was to be the big adventure, but almost ended prematurely in a marine accident that could have ended the young lives of himself and his companions.
David Price was a member of FIDS, the British expedition to the Antarctic, which ran British basses in this cold, remote, but beautiful region of the world. Five young men who spent two and a half years alone on a very small island, icebound, with no doctor, mail just once a year and communications that depended entirely on Morse code. The things we take for granted today simply did not exist. This is the story of the sojourn in this far-off place, a story told with humour and insight.

Published: 2008 by UKAHT

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By Jean Baptiste Charcot

The first French expedition to the Antarctic (1903-1905). Translated by A.W. Billinghurst with an introduction by Maurice Raraty. Originally published in French, 12 December 1906 by Ernest Flammarion, Paris, as Le "Francais" au Pole Sud.

Published: 2004 by Bluntisham Books, Huntingdon, England

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By Michael Smith

Tom Crean is the unsung and inspirational hero of Antarctic exploration; now, for the first time, his astonishing life of adventure, heroism and survival against the odds is told. 'An Unsung Hero' reveals how he volunteered for Polar exploration, was one of the last to see Scott alive before his ill-fated expedition reached the South Pole and returned to bury him in the snow months later. It recounts the leading role Crean played in Shackleton's legendary 'Endurance' expedition, during which he sailed the small open 'James Caird' across the violent Southern Ocean, and his involvement in the historic crossing of South Georgia's glaciers.

This book is now only available as an e-book.

Published: 2009 by The Collins Press, Cork, Ireland

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By Ian B Hart

This book is a fascinating account of the development of the whaling industry in the Falkland Islands Dependencies, that sector of the Antarctic and its surrounding archipelagoes claimed by Britain, which were in their heyday more productive and of greater importance than all the others in the world combined.

Published: 2006 by Pequena

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