books about: antarctic

books about: antarctic

books:

Antarctic

Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer

Margot Morrell, Stephanie Capparell

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2002

Heroic. Courageous. Inspiring.
SHACKLETON'S WAY is an extraordinary tale of leadership, courage, and adventure. The leadership skills of this Antarctic explorer are as relevant today as they were nearly 100 years ago. This book is an insightful narrative of the challenges, tragedies and victories of ...

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

Caroline Alexander

Knopf, 1998

A remarkable account that takes you with the explorers
This expedition was a failure in that Shackleton and his fellow explorers never accomplished the intended exploration. But this is a monumental story of survival I haven't read anything like this since, I believe, I was in my teens and engrossed in the arctic and ...

South: The Last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and the Endurance (The Explorers Club Classic)

Sir Ernest Shackleton

The Lyons Press, 2008

Trust your money and your life but not your wife with Ernest
What an expedition! There is a lot to be learned about leadership and survival by the adventurers on this journey. If you like men against the elements, who survive by their wits and never ever give up, this is the tale for you. A great winter read.

The Antarctic: From the Circle to the Pole

Chronicle Books, 2008

serenely gorgeous
I had to go to the post office to pick up my package and couldn't wait until I got home to open it. I opened it right there in the post office, "This is beautiful," I said out loud. The layout is so perfect for the pictures - it opens lengthwise. Other people ...

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance

Jennifer Armstrong

Crown Books for Young Readers, 2000

A gripping tale
If you ever think your job is hard, or you feel like complaining about the traffic or the weather or that your Internet connection is slow, just stop. Stop and consider the ordeal and misery suffered by the 28 men on Ernest Shackleton's 1914-16 Antartic expedition. ...

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing

Basic Books, 1999

Just Incredible Account ,Absolutely Incredible
This account of Shackelton's expedition to Antarctic is a read like no other. I could not put this book down,nor could I believe the constitution each person on the crew had to continue forth under such insurmountable odds. The author, Lansing has provided a compelling ...

Emperors of the Ice: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in the Antarctic, 1910-13

Richard Farr

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2008

Fabulous book!
What a great read! I bought it for myself, but after finishing it, started reading it to my 10 year old son. He can't get enough of it. It's so great when literature such as this is able to capture the mind and imaginiation of adults and kids alike. Quite a ...

The Worst Journey in the World (Penguin Classics)

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Penguin Classics, 2006

In this case, Worst Journey is no conceit
It's been more than ten years since I read Cherry-Garrard's account of Scott's journey to Antarctica, but I can still feel the lung-searing cold and hear the hellish, monstrous wind coming out of the center of the continent into which the journey was headed. I have ...

Leading at the Edge : Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition

Dennis N. T. Perkins, Margaret P. Holtman, ...

AMACOM, 2000

Invaluable lessons for business or life!
A fantastic text based on an epic journey. The history of Shackleton's ill-fated expedition is a sharp contrast to the modern view which epitomizes personal liberty as the highest virtue. This book features vignettes from an expedition faced with nearly ...

Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written

Lennard Bickel

Steerforth, 2000

Bickel's Gift
Rarely has fiction served the truth so well. Rarely has the truth served fiction so well. Mawson's own account of his ordeal, in "The Home of The Blizzard", seems relatively matter of fact. We may not have marvelled at Mawson's accomplishment in surviving if we ...

DK Readers: Antarctic Adventure, Exploring the Frozen Continent (Level 4: Proficient Readers)

Meredith Hooper

DK CHILDREN, 2000

A Winner!!
This is another DK reader that not only held the interest of my 9 yr old son but captivated him as well. Well written and the pictures are fantastic. If you have a son that only likes video games and is a gamer,but thinks reading is boring buy this book with ...

The Complete Guide to Antarctic Wildlife: Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the ...

Hadoram Shirihai

Princeton University Press, 2008

Spectacular
I brought this book to the Antarctic peninsula with me, only to find a copy already aboard ship. It was still worth carrying. Yes, good photos, but much better for the information. Details on identifying all sorts of animals, including the territories they can be ...

South: The Endurance Expedition (Penguin Classics)

Ernest Shackleton

Penguin Classics, 2004

Great account of adventure and survival in Antarctica.
This is one of the best survival/adventure stories that you will ever read. The events which take place during the Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition of 1914-1917 are re-told by several different points of view and this gives the overall story a multi-faceted ...

Antarctic Antics: A Book of Penguin Poems

Judy Sierra

Sandpiper, 2003

Poems About Penguins.
First of all, I love this book because I love penguins. However, as a piece of children's literature, it's so much more. This is an excellent example of how literature (poetry) and science can go hand and hand. There are some poems in this book that seem written just ...

The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic

Elizabeth Kolbert, Francis Spufford

Bloomsbury USA, 2007

A Delightful Frozen Fascinating Wonderland
While I have read more about the Antarctica so far, as opposed to the Arctic side of the book, I would like to recommend this to people of all ages with an interest for the far reaches of our planet. At times, the reader will become so engrossed in the stories that are ...