Polar Regions 2

No.1 bestseller Michael Palin's epic journey from the North Pole to the South Pole. 'The cracked and fissured ice-pack offers no comfortable reassurance - no glimmer of any reward to the traveller w……続きを見る

"Wabusk Outside the Wire / Nanook Looking In" is Joseph Boyden's contribution to Northwords, a cross-platform project that takes urban Canadian writers to some of the world's most extreme environmen……続きを見る

"Homeland" is Alissa York's contribution to Northwords, a cross-platform project that takes urban Canadian writers to some of the world’s most extreme environments. Introduced by award-winning journ……続きを見る

Photographer Ponting joined Robert Scott's expedition to the South Pole in 1910. His remarkable book not only tells of the life among Scott's crew on board and at camp, but also provides numerous ph……続きを見る

'How gratifying it is to welcome a young Scotsman as a major new travel writer…' Glasgow Herald 'The book is full of enthusiasm and delight as it is rich in humour.' Eastern Daily News 'A marvellous……続きを見る

"As the Ice Melts: Letters from Antarctica" is the title I gave to a series of newsletters sent to family and friends when I spent the summer of 1985-86 on "The Ice" at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. ……続きを見る

A man who has spent his professional life measuring the flow of northern rivers, climbed Alaska’s Mount McKinley, was a member of both Yale University and Maine University’s scientific expeditions t……続きを見る

"Von allen Seiten umgaben uns Kolosse von Eis, welche wie böse Vorbedeutungen durch die Finsternis schimmerten. Friedrich Litke Vier Mal bricht Litke, trotz hindernder Eismassen, von Archangelsk in ……続きを見る

Wilhelm Weike, a 23-year old handyman from Minden/Germany, accidentally found himself spending the year of 1883-84 among Inuit and wintering with whalers on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. The……続きを見る

Example in this ebook   It is a very wonderful thing, when we stop to think of it, that no matter where we are placed in this great round world of ours, it seems just right to us. Far away i……続きを見る

It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. For centuries, Antarctica has captured the imagination of our greatest scientists ……続きを見る

Farthest South - Ernest Henry Shackleton Born in Ireland, Shackleton joined the merchant navy before being recruited for Captain Scott's 1901 expedition to Antarctica. He was with Scott on his first……続きを見る

The very best writing on the Antarctic, from James Cook's eighteenth-century assertion that 'no man will ever venture further than I have done' to Lynne Cox's description of her epic, icy swim in th……続きを見る

Example in this ebook   CHAPTER I Some Preliminary Events "After me cometh a builder. Tell him I, too, have known."Kipling.It is an awful thing to be told that one has made history, or done somethin……続きを見る

Die Eroberung des Südpol: Wer würde als erstes dieses Ziel erreichen? Robert Falcon Scott oder Roald Amundsen? Das war die Frage in den Jahren 1911 und 1912. Diese beiden Polarforscher lie……続きを見る

A LIFE OF EXTREMES is a rare book. It spans Jeff's years as a reporter as he takes us on a fascinating global journey. Both a compelling memoir and gripping travelogue, it is suffused with the sort ……続きを見る

In April 2011, four soldiers - each a veteran of recent conflicts, who suffered devastating injuries in the line of duty - set out on an extraordinary challenge: a two-hundred mile trek, unsupported……続きを見る

Four Years in the Ice - John Ross Disgraced and dishonored for his report of an imaginary mountain range blocking the most likely access to the North West Passage, in 1829 Ross returned to Canada's ……続きを見る

"Torngat Sketches" is Sarah Leavitt's contribution to Northwords, a cross-platform project that takes urban Canadian writers to some of the world's most extreme environments. Introduced by award-win……続きを見る

"Torngat Mountains, A New Waiver" is Noah Richler's contribution to Northwords, a cross-platform project that takes urban Canadian writers to some of the world’s most extreme environments. Introduce……続きを見る

Lynne Cox, adventurer, swimmer, and bestselling author gives us a full-scale account of the life and expeditions of Roald Amundsen, “the last of the Vikings,” who left his mark on the Heroic Era as ……続きを見る

Having survived Borneo, Amazonia, and the Congo, the indefatigable Redmond O’Hanlon sets off on his next adventure: his own perfect storm, in the wild waters off the northern tip of Scotland. Equipp……続きを見る

This scarce book was first published in 1908. It is a fascinating account of the Norwegian polar explorer, Amundsen's, exploration of the Northwest Passage. Not only the first person to traverse the……続きを見る

Erich von Drygalskis Schiff "Gauß" verlässt am 11. August 1901 Kiel und gelangt über Kapstadt und die Kergeulen bis zum Antarktischen Festland. Das Schiff bleibt hier fast ein Jahr im Eis stecken un……続きを見る

Die Expedition bricht auf um die Nordküste Kanadas östlich der Mündung des Coppermine Flusses, zu erforschen. Doch drei Jahre später droht das Unternehmen zu scheitern, die Vorräte werden knapp, man……続きを見る

Die Entdeckung der Südsee Kein Seefahrer vor James Cook unternahm so ausgedehnte Reisen, verbrachte so lange Zeiträume ununterbrochen auf See und kehrte mit so umfangreichen Kenntnissen weiter Teile……続きを見る

"Generalkapitän Fernando Magellan hatte beschlossen eine lange Schifffahrt auf einem Meer zu unternehmen, das von wütenden Winden und furchtbaren Stürmen beherrscht wird und nach Eilanden zu suchen,……続きを見る

Vor Amundsen scheiterten schon viele bedeutende Entdecker bei dem Versuch, einen Seeweg durch das eisige Labyrinth der arktischen Inseln im Norden Amerikas zu finden, so etwa Sebastian Cabot, James ……続きを見る

Segelt "hinaus über das Ende der Welt" und findet den Weg zu den Reichtümern Indiens. So lautet die Weisung, die der Infant Heinrich, genannt "der Seefahrer", seinen Kapitänen gab. Doch der Prinz wa……続きを見る

Russland im 18.Jahrhundert: nach seiner Öffnung zum Westen unter Zar Peter dem Großen suchte es nun das "Fenster zum Osten"; Sibirien war zu erschließen, die Beziehungen zu Japan und Amerika auszuba……続きを見る