The Last Expedition

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393089646

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Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration by David Roberts Pdf

"Gripping and superb. This book will steal the night from you." —Laurence Gonzales, author of Deep Survival On 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 by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface. Mawson was sometimes reduced to crawling, and one night he discovered that the soles of his feet had completely detached from the flesh beneath. On February 8, when he staggered back to base, his features unrecognizably skeletal, the first teammate to reach him blurted out, "Which one are you?" This thrilling and almost unbelievable account establishes Mawson in his rightful place as one of the greatest polar explorers and expedition leaders. It is illustrated by a trove of Frank Hurley’s famous Antarctic photographs, many never before published in the United States.

Author : Robert Falcon Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:499586548

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Scott's Last Expedition by Robert Falcon Scott Pdf

Author : Robert Falcon Scott
Publisher : Vintage Classic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 0099561387

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The Last Expedition by Robert Falcon Scott Pdf

Includes the British Antarctic track chart and Ponting's glass plate negatives of the photographs that he took while on the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13 Captain Scott's gripping account of his expedition to the South Pole in 1910-12 tell of a journey that was meant to be a voyage of scientific discovery and a heroic exploration of the last unconquered wilderness. Scott's expedition, carried in the Terra Nova, pitted him and his team not only against the elements but also against the Norwegian explorer Amundsen. Ultimately, Scott was beaten by both. The journals are full of incident and drama, courage and endurance, hope and bitter disappointment. These journals were found, along with Scott's body, several months after his death and just 11 miles from base camp and safety.

Author : Ernest Henry Shackleton
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781775414285

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South by Ernest Henry Shackleton Pdf

When Sir Henry Ernest Shackleton was beaten to the South Pole in 1912, he decided to trek across the continent via the pole instead. Before his ship even reached the continent it was crushed in pack ice. Shackleton managed to bring his entire team home by his masterful leadership through a series of incredible events. He has become a cult figure and a role model for great leadership.

Author : Daniel Liebowitz,Charles Pearson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0393059030

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The Last Expedition by Daniel Liebowitz,Charles Pearson Pdf

Henry Morton Stanley undertook the greatest African expedition of the 19th century to rescue Emin Pasha, last lieutenant of the martyred General Gordon and governor of the southern Sudan. Instead of ten months, the trip took three years and cost the lives of thousands of people, as Stanley's column hacked its way across the last great, unexplored territory in Africa. Stanley's secret agenda was territorial expansion on the model of Leopold's Congo or the British East India Company.

Author : Caroline Alexander
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780060932619

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Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition by Caroline Alexander Pdf

The carpenter has a very fine cat who is known as "Mrs. Chippie"... -- from the diary of Commander F. A. Worsley, captain of Shackleton's Endurance When Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance became trapped in the Antarctic ice, all twenty-nine members of the crew were pushed to their limits of survival, including Mrs. Chippy, the ship's estimable cat. Fortunately for posterity, Mrs. Chippy left a diary of the ordeal. Closely based on the true events of Shackleton's heroic journey, and illustrated with authentic photographs taken by Frank Hurley, expedition photographer, Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition is a firsthand account of one of the greatest adventures in history--from a unique point of view.

Author : Peter C. Mancall
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786747870

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Fatal Journey by Peter C. Mancall Pdf

The English explorer Henry Hudson devoted his life to the search for a water route through America, becoming the first European to navigate the Hudson River in the process. In Fatal Journey, acclaimed historian and biographer Peter C. Mancall narrates Hudson's final expedition. In the winter of 1610, after navigating dangerous fields of icebergs near the northern tip of Labrador, Hudson's small ship became trapped in winter ice. Provisions grew scarce and tensions mounted amongst the crew. Within months, the men mutinied, forcing Hudson, his teenage son, and seven other men into a skiff, which they left floating in the Hudson Bay. A story of exploration, desperation, and icebound tragedy, Fatal Journey vividly chronicles the undoing of the great explorer, not by an angry ocean, but at the hands of his own men.

Author : Steve Parker
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 0565092871

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Scott's Last Expedition by Steve Parker Pdf

"Scott's last expedition exhibition is a collaboration between the Natural History Museum in London, Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand and Antarctic Heritage Trust New Zealand" -- T.p. verso.

Author : Robert Falcon Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106412331

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Scott's Last Expedition ... by Robert Falcon Scott Pdf

Author : John Oehler
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : 1522758569

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Tepui by John Oehler Pdf

In 1559, forty-nine Spaniards exploring a tributary of the Orinoco River reached a sheer-sided, cloud-capped mountain called Tepui Zupay. When they tried to climb it, all but six were slaughtered by Amazons. Or so claimed Friar Sylvestre, the expedition's chronicler. But Sylvestre made many bizarre claims: rivers of blood, plants that lead to gold ... Jerry Pace, a burn-scarred botanist struggling for tenure at UCLA, thinks the friar was delusional. Jerry's best friend, the historian who just acquired Sylvestre's journal, disagrees. He plans to retrace the expedition's footsteps, and wants Jerry to come with him. Jerry refuses, until he spots a stain between the journal's pages--a stain that could only have been left by a plant that died out with the dinosaurs. Now he has to find that plant. But the Venezuelan wilderness does not forgive intruders. Battered and broken, they reach a remote Catholic orphanage where the old prioress warns of death awaiting any who would venture farther. But an exotic Indian girl leads them on, through piranha-infested rivers and jungles teaming with poisonous plants, to Tepui Zupay--the forbidden mountain no outsider has set eyes on since the Spaniards met their doom. This is a story about life's surprises--the challenges, risks--and how they transform us. It is also a tale of Beauty and the Beast.

Author : Robert Falcon Scott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199536801

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Journals by Robert Falcon Scott Pdf

Captain Scott's own account of his tragic race with Roald Amundsen for the South Pole thrilled the world in 1913. This new edition of his Journals publishes for the first time a complete list of the changes made to Scott's original text before publication.

Author : Bernard Penrose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1775
Category : Falkland Islands
ISBN : OXFORD:N11665641

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An Account of the Last Expedition to Port Egmont in Falkland's Islands, in the Year 1772 by Bernard Penrose Pdf

Author : Susan Solomon
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Robert Shlaer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Daguerreotype
ISBN : UCSD:31822028802338

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Sights Once Seen by Robert Shlaer Pdf

Little is known about the fifth and last western expedition of the celebrated explorer John Charles Frémont. The great effort to survey a transcontinental railway route across the 38th parallel ended short of success in the snows of Utah in 1854 but involved a meticulous photographic documentation -- in daguerreotypes -- of the route from the Mississippi westward. It was believed that a central railroad across the country would favour abolitionists in the great debate then raging in the country over slavery. Solomon Nunes Carvalho was hired by Frémont to photograph the expedition -- the first time a western expeditionary survey had been systematically documented in photographs. Tragically, the daguerreotypes were destroyed by fire, and Frémont's fifth expedition was lost to history. Author and daguerreotypist Robert Shlaer remarkably has reconstructed the expedition in 120 original daguerreotypes. Using Frémont's maps, expedition documents, and Carvalho's diary accounts, Shlaer recreates the lost expedition across America's most breathtaking landscape using photography's first and most venerable method of daguerreotypye.

Author : Ernest Shackleton
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789506341

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South! by Ernest Shackleton Pdf

"We had seen God in His splendours, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man." In 1914, Ernest Shackleton set out on an 1,800-mile trek across Antarctica. During the three-year expedition, his team overcame shipwreck, treacherous glaciers, and a bitterly hostile climate. They faced the elements on this icy continent with extraordinary determination, resourcefulness, and courage. This account by one of Britain's greatest explorers is at once thrilling, harrowing, and inspiring.