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Pages: 352
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-28 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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"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, Do
Mawson's Will
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Pages: 276
Authors: Lennard Bickel
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-30 - Publisher: Steerforth

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The dramatic story of explorer Douglas Mawson and "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history" (Sir Edmund Hillary, mountaineer and ex
Four Against the Arctic
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: David Roberts
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-09-02 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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In 1743, four stranded Russian sailors survived the next six years in the Arctic with no provisions. Making a bow and arrows from driftwood--since there are no
Against the Ice
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Authors: Ejnar Mikkelsen
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Now a major Netflix film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) The harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal account of two mi
Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition
Language: en
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Authors: Beau Riffenburgh
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Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition is the story of Ernest Shackleton's epic journey toward the South Pole. Lacking funds and plagued by hunger, cruel weather, an