Birdie Bowers

Author : Anne Strathie
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780752478715

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Birdie Bowers by Anne Strathie Pdf

Henry ‘Birdie’ Bowers realised his life’s ambition when he was selected for Captain Scott’s Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic, yet he also met his death on the journey. Born to a sea-faring father and adventurous mother on the Firth of Clyde, Bowers’ boyhood obsession with travel and adventure took him round the world several times and his life appears, with hindsight, to have been a ceaseless preparation for his ultimate, Antarctic challenge. Although just 5ft 4in, he was a bundle of energy; knowledgeable, indefatigable and the ultimate team player. In Scott’s words, he was ‘a marvel’. This new biography, drawing on Bowers’ letters, journals and previously neglected material, sheds new light on Bowers and tells the full story of the hardy naval officer who could always lift his companions’ spirits.

Author : Roald Amundsen
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547671466

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The South Pole by Roald Amundsen Pdf

The South Pole is a book by Roald Amundsen and it represents an interesting first-hand account of the Norwegian expedition's successful attempt to reach the South Pole in 1911. Amundsen spends a great deal of time talking about logistics and placing of depots in preparation for his polar attempt all the way from the preparation leading up to the initial sea voyage, the voyage itself and then the establishing of a camp at the Antarctic. Although they were lucky with the weather, and Amundsen attributed the success of the expedition to "good luck", it is obvious that the Norwegian expedition was well prepared and ready for the troubles ahead; the equipment, the sledges with well-trained dogs, the supply depots with seal meat at regular intervals along the route, the sunglasses to avoid snow blindness; it was all thought of in advance.

Author : Anne Strathie
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780752478715

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Birdie Bowers by Anne Strathie Pdf

Henry 'Birdie' Bowers realised his life's ambition when he was selected for Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic, yet he also met his death on the journey. Born to a sea-faring father and adventurous mother on the Firth of Clyde, Bowers' boyhood obsession with travel and adventure took him round the world several times and his life appears, with hindsight, to have been a ceaseless preparation for his ultimate, Antarctic challenge. Although just 5ft 4in, he was a bundle of energy; knowledgeable, indefatigable and the ultimate team player. In Scott's words, he was 'a marvel'. This new biography, drawing on Bowers' letters, journals and previously neglected material, sheds new light on Bowers and tells the full story of the hardy naval officer who could always lift his companions' spirits.

Author : Ted Tally
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : 082221122X

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Terra Nova by Ted Tally Pdf

In the winter of 1911-1912, five Englishmen and five Norwegians raced each other to the bottom of the earth. Only the five Norwegians returned. This is the story of the Englishmen.

Author : Simon Naylor,James R. Ryan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857731890

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New Spaces of Exploration by Simon Naylor,James R. Ryan Pdf

For many the dawn of the twentieth century ushered in an era where the world map had few if any blank spaces left to discover. The age of exploration was supposedly dead. "New Spaces of Exploration" challenges this assumption. Focusing specifically on exploration in the twentieth century, the authors demonstrate how new technologies and changing geopolitical configurations have ensured that exploration has remained a key feature of our rapidly globalizing world. Ranging widely in their geographical focus - from the Europe and Asia to Australia, and from the polar regions to outer space - they demonstrate the increasing diversity of modern exploration and reveal the continuing political, military, industrial and cultural motivations at play. The result is a major contribution to our understanding of the significance of exploration in the twentieth century. Contributors include: E. Baigent, C. Collis, K. Dodds, F. Driver, M. Godwin, J. Hill, F. Korsmo, F. MacDonald, S. Naylor, J. Ryan, N. Thomas, and K. Yusoff.

Author : Dr. David M. Wilson
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316193580

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The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott by Dr. David M. Wilson Pdf

The myth of Scott of the Antarctic, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, icon of fortitude and courage who perished with his fellow explorers on their return from the South Pole on March 29th, 1912, is an enduring one, elevated, dismantled and restored during the turbulence of the succeeding century. Until now, the legend of the doomed Terra Nova expedition has been constructed out of Scott's own diaries and those of his companions, the sketches of 'Uncle Bill' Wilson and the celebrated photographs of Herbert Ponting. Yet for the final, fateful months of their journey, the systematic imaging of this extraordinary scientific endeavor was left to Scott himself, trained by Ponting. In the face of extreme climactic conditions and technical challenges at the dawn of photography, Scott achieved an iconic series of images; breathtaking polar panoramas, geographical and geological formations, and action photographs of the explorers and their animals, remarkable for their technical mastery as well as for their poignancy. Lost, fought over, neglected and finally resurrected, Scott's final photographs are here collected, accurately attributed and catalogued for the first time: a new dimension to the last great expedition of the Heroic Age and a humbling testament to the men whose graves still lie unmarked in the vastness of the Great Alone.

Author : Susan Solomon
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0300099215

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The Coldest March by Susan Solomon Pdf

Details the expedition of Robert Falcon Scott and his British team to the South Pole in 1912.

Author : George Seaver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : OCLC:221693361

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Scott of the Antarctic by George Seaver Pdf

Author : Diana Preston
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780330815

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A First Rate Tragedy by Diana Preston Pdf

On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier finally found what they sought - the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. Inside, they made a grim discovery: Scott's frozen body lay between the bodies of two fellow explorers. They had died just eleven miles from the depot of supplies which might have saved them. Why did Scott's meticulously laid plans finally end in disaster, while his rival, Norwegian Roald Amundsen, returned safely home with his crew after attaining the Pole only days before the British team? In a newly revised and updated version of her original book, Diana Preston, returns to Antarctica and explores why Scott's carefully planned expedition failed, ending in tragedy.

Author : Anne Strathie
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780750965781

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From Ice Floes to Battlefields by Anne Strathie Pdf

February 1912: Harry Pennell and his Terra Nova shipmates brave storms and ice to bring supplies to Antarctica. They hope to celebrate Captain Scott’s conquest of the South Pole, but are forced by ice to return north before Scott’s party returns. In New Zealand a reporter tells them that Roald Amundsen reached the Pole first. Returning to Antarctica in early 1913, they learn that Scott’s party reached the Pole but died on the ice shelf.Back in Britain memorial services, medal ceremonies, weddings and resumed careers are abruptly interrupted by the First World War. Fit and able men, Scott’s ‘Antarctics’ trade one adventure for another.By 1919 Scott’s ‘Antarctics’ have fought at Antwerp, the Western Front, Gallipoli, in the Channel, at Jutland and in Arctic Russia. They serve on horseback, in trenches, on battleships and hospital ships, in armoured cars and flimsy aircraft; their brothers-in-arms include a prime minister’s son and poet Rupert Brooke. As in Antarctica, life is challenging and dangerous. As on the ice, not all survive.

Author : Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547251637

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The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Worst Journey in the World" (Antarctic 1910-1913) by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 9781613104361

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The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard Pdf

Author : Isobel Williams
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780752477602

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Captain Scott's Invaluable by Isobel Williams Pdf

Petty Officer Edgar Evans was Captain’s Scott’s ‘giant worker’ and his ‘invaluable assistant’. He went with Scott on both the British Antarctic Expeditions of the early 1900s – the ‘Discovery’ expedition of 1901 and the ‘Terra Nova’ expedition in 1910 – distinguishing himself on both. In 1903, with Scott, Edgar made the first long and arduous sortie onto the Plateau of Victoria Land. The journey highlighted Edgar’s common sense, strength, courage, wit and unflappability. Thus it came as no surprise when, in 1911, Edgar was chosen by Scott to be one of the five men to go on the final attempt at the South Pole.Tragically the ‘Welsh Giant’ was the first to die on the ill-fated return, and posthumously Edgar was blamed in some quarters for causing the deaths of the whole party. It was suggested that his failure was due to his relative lack of education, which made him less able to endure the conditions than his well-educated companions. Isobel Williams repudiates this shameful suggestion and redresses the balance of attention paid to the upper and lower-deck members of Scott's famous expeditions.

Author : Iain Lawrence
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 9780385733779

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The Winter Pony by Iain Lawrence Pdf

An account--from the point of view of a pony--of what it was like to be part of Captain Robert Scott's 1910 expedition to reach the South Pole before rival Roald Amundsen.

Author : Robert Ryan
Publisher : Headline
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755372522

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Death on the Ice by Robert Ryan Pdf

Bestselling author Robert Ryan brings one of the greatest epic journeys of all time to life in this captivating story of Captain Scott's last Antarctic expedition. January 18, 1912: Captain Robert Falcon Scott?s expedition reaches the South Pole. Just a few weeks later, trapped in one of the worst blizzards Antarctica has ever known, Scott and his four companions perish in subzero temperatures. How did the icy conditions overwhelm Scott, Captain Oates and their party on the fateful return journey? The story of Scott and Oates, their incredible journey and their tragic final days, combines ambition, national pride and the kind of bravery and dignity most men can only dream of.