The Golliwogg's Polar Adventures
Author: Bertha Upton
Publisher:
Published: 1900
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13:
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The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame
Author: Joanna Kafarowski
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2017-11-04
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1459739728
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first comprehensive biography of Louise Arner Boyd — the intrepid American socialite who reinvented herself as the leading female polar explorer of the twentieth century. Born in the late 1880s to a gritty mining magnate who made his millions in the California gold rush and a well-bred mother descended from one of New York’s distinguished families, society beauty Louise Arner Boyd was raised during a glittering era. After inheriting a staggering family fortune, she began leading a double life. She fell under the spell of the north in the late 1920s after a sailing excursion to the Arctic Ocean. Over the next three decades, she achieved international notoriety as a rugged and audacious polar explorer while maintaining her flamboyant lifestyle as a leading society woman. Yet despite organizing, financing, and directing seven daring Arctic expeditions between 1926 and 1955, she is virtually unknown today.
Grand Adventures
Author: Alastair Humphreys
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2016-03-24
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 0008131945
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →‘Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap’ Geographical Adventure – something that’s new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you and how you see the world, and all you need is an open mind, bags of enthusiasm and boundless curiosity. Recommended for viewing on a colour tablet.
The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame
Author: Joanna Kafarowski
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2017-11-04
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 145973971X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Louise Arner Boyd inherited the family millions in her thirties. Expected to lead a respectable life, she instead fell under the captivating spell of the north. Over the next thirty years, she organized and led seven hazardous expeditions around Greenland and was showered with international awards.
Adventures in Polar Reading
Author: David H. Stam
Publisher:
Published: 2022-01-05
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781605830841
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based in part on his own naval experience, including duty in Antarctica, and informed by extensive archival and secondary research, David Stam's book examines the printed needs of several polar expeditions, including those of Adolphus Greely in the International Polar Year 1881-83 in northernmost Canada. Stam's study also includes analysis of shipboard- and expedition-based periodicals throughout the so-called Heroic Age of exploration (ca. 1880-1921); a definitive essay on the enduring books of Ernest Shackleton's legendary journey aboard the Endurance; a parallel study of the primarily religious literature distributed as Loan Libraries of the American Seamen's Friend Society; and, finally, an account of the three libraries assembled by Richard Evelyn Byrd for the successive bases at Little America (1929-41). The volume is bookended by chapters that provide an autobiographical account of how Adventures in Polar Reading came to be written and extensive suggestions pointing the way to topics of research that Stam's methodology might enable for other scholars.
True Stories of Polar Adventures: Usborne True Stories
Author: Paul Dowswell
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Published: 2013-09-01
Total Pages: 123
ISBN-13: 1409569071
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A gripping collection of true stories of exploration and danger over the icy wastelands of Antarctica. Contains true life stories from the fated expedition of Captain Scott to Ernest Shackleton's epic trek across the snow to save his stranded crew.
Arctic Adventure
Author: Peter Freuchen
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2016-11-11
Total Pages: 615
ISBN-13: 1787202526
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 1956, this book is a memoir by Danish explorer Peter Freuchen, a close friend and travel companion of Arctic legend Knud Rasmussen, and ended up living in Greenland for fifteen years, 800 miles from the North Pole—adopting the native ways of life, marrying an Inuit woman, and having two children along the way. Arctic Adventure is filled with tales of seal and polar bear hunts, enduring starvation, encountering people who had resorted to cannibalism, and the stirring experience of seeing the sun again after three months of winter darkness. Rich in human saga, Freuchen’s warmth, wit, and literary talent make this recollection of real-life adventure stories a stand-out. “Except for Richard E. Byrd, and despite his foreign beginnings, Freuchen was perhaps better known to more people in the United States than any other explorer of our time.”—Evelyn Stefansson, The New York Times “[A] formidable and fascinating man”—Harriet Baker, AnOther Richly illustrated throughout with maps and black-and-white photographs.
The Arctic Crusoe, a Tale of the Polar Sea; Or, Arctic Adventures on the Sea of Ice
Author: Percy Bolingbroke St. John
Publisher:
Published: 1875
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Byrd & Igloo: A Polar Adventure
Author: Samantha Seiple
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2013-09-24
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 0545562775
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the author of GHOSTS IN THE FOG comes a story that will appeal to lovers of history, adventure, and dogs. BYRD & IGLOO will be the first narrative nonfiction book to tell the daring adventures of legendary polar explorer and aviator Richard Byrd and his lovable dog explorer, Igloo. Byrd is known for being the first to fly a plane over the North and South Poles, while Igloo is famous for being the only dog to explore both the North and South Poles. The adventures of Byrd and Igloo opened the door for science and research in the Antarctic. Featuring direct quotes from letters, diaries and interviews, newspaper clippings, expedition records, maps, charts, as well as never-before-seen photos, it will give the complete story of the explorers' journey. Though rooted in history with evidence from many museums and research centers, Byrd & Igloo will be exciting in tone, making it accessible and interesting for young readers.
Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure
Author: Frank Arthur Worsley
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1999-04-17
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0393343340
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of HMS Endurance. "You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. "What the ice gets," replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's unflappable leader, "the ice keeps." It did not, however, get the ship's twenty-five crew members, all of whom survived an eight-hundred-mile voyage across sea, land, and ice to South Georgia, the nearest inhabited island. First published in 1931, Endurance tells the full story of that doomed 1914-16 expedition and incredible rescue, as well as relating Worsley's further adventures fighting U-boats in the Great War, sailing the equally treacherous waters of the Arctic, and making one final (and successful) assault on the South Pole with Shackleton. It is a tale of unrelenting high adventure and a tribute to one of the most inspiring and courageous leaders of men in the history of exploration.
