books about: antarctic     books:       Antarctica: Explorer Series, Vol. 1 (Explorer (Nahanni))5 reviews Nahanni Productions, 2003 ANTARCTICA ANTARCTICA by Pat & Rosemarie Keough Reviewed by Charles Swithinbank, Scott Polar Research Institute for: The Antarctican Society Newsletter Vol. 01-02, No. 2, January 2002 This is the first Antarctic book that may require a Sherpa to bring it to your home, a lectern to display it, and a special book-case to put it in. But make no mistake, it is something ...             South: The Last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and the Endurance9 reviews Sir Ernest Shackleton The Lyons Press, 1998 A True Leader Shackleton was an amazing man full of true grit and true leadership. Among the many things that stand out in his story of survival is the importance of keeping a journal. Even after many supplies and equipment were left on the ice, the men were instructed to continue to carry their journals. And what if they had not? Where would be the true story that outshines most fictional adventure stories in ...             Antarctic Antics14 reviews Judy Sierra Weston Woods Studios, 2001 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 for fun, (e.g. "Be My Penguin"). However, most of the poems in this book are written about and around actual behaviors that ...             Strangers in paradise20 reviews Terry Moore Antarctic Press, 1994 The way it should be I have to say that I have tried to read the individual comics that comprise this book. I just couldn't really get into the characters and had no desire to read the series. These pocket books are the way these characters need to be represented. With this format, the reader has a greater chance of seeing the depth and all the turns in the lifes of Francine, Katchoo and David. We see how minor ...             The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party10 reviews Kelly Tyler-Lewis Viking Adult, 2006 The Strong Men I have read nearly every book in print dealing with the exploration and saga of Shackleton and his men. Kelly Tyler-Lewis' book The Lost Men rates as one of the best. The "harrowing story" of these hearty men stranded in the desolate Ross Sea is incredible, for lack of words. Duty-bound, these men laid the stores for a transantarctic voyage that would never materialize. These were men who ...             Leading at the Edge : Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition25 reviews 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 insurmountable odds that highlight the difficult choices faced by Shackleton and his men. In the face of adversity, they managed to endure, ...             Antarctic Oasis: Under the Spell of South Georgia9 reviews Tim Carr, Pauline Carr W. W. Norton & Company, 1998 Impasioned account of the remote sub-antarctic Having been to South Georgia and met the Carr's three years ago, I was very excited to see their marvelous habitat so poignantly displayed. It is a world of the crossroads of many ecologic niches, man's tenuous and not always synergistic intersection with it, and and an adventuresome couple's love for the land, sea, and animals. A bit more could have been said about Shackleton and his place in ...             South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition, 1914-19178 reviews Simon & Schuster, 2001 You've read the book(s) now see the film Frank Hurley's book is a mastepiece of photographic art. Having read many Antarctic books already, particularly "South" the story of the endurance expedition, I devoured this book to see the whole story in detail. The book is a work of technical genius and without artistic equal among work of that era, particularly when you realise what awful conditions he worked under. The notes accompanying the ...             The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals12 reviews Peter Heller Free Press, 2007 Ahab Against the Whalers It is only toward the end of _The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals_ (Free Press) that author Peter Heller describes the atrocities being committed against whales by the Japanese whaling fleets. He doesn't see them himself, but describes a video that was shot aboard one of the whalers showing the effects of explosive harpoons and the drawn ...             Alone Across the Arctic: One Woman's Epic Journey by Dog Team18 reviews Pam Flowers, Ann Dixon Alaska Northwest Books, 2001 Hard to put down I needed something to read during the benchmarks, so I ran to the library during passing time and grabbed the first book I could find on mushing (I'm an addicted musher). I had a hard time putting it down. The pictures were wonderful, and the story was great. It was a pretty fast read, I finished it that day, but I enjoyed it. I've reread it twice since I bought my own copy.             The Complete Guide to Antarctic Wildlife: Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the ...4 reviews Hadoram Shirihai Princeton University Press, 2002 Fine book beautifully produced! Anyone who has read my other reviews will know that I don't give stars easily but I can find no reason even to deduct a single star from this book. Whether you have been, are going or just want to dream of going this is the book for you. As its title indicates, its prime purpose is to describe the wildlife, and it gives top billing to the birds - all in a level of detail which should satisfy the ...             Poles Apart: Parallel Visions of the Arctic and Antarctic4 reviews Galen Rowell University of California Press, 1995 Experience the stunning beauty of the Earth's poles! This is much more than a coffee table book, though its unique photographs of the pristine beauty of the Arctic and Antarctic would impress even the most casual of browsers. A short story about each photo is included, along with more general, thoughtful and poignant commentary from someone that is truly in touch with the global environment. Rowell is one of the great nature photographers, and ...             Shackleton of the Antarctic4 reviews Herbert R. Kohl, T. H. Baughman Eothen Press, 2001 Shackleton in a nutshell.... There's a Shackleton mania going on these days. Witness all the new books and reissues of old books to be found on websites and booksellers' shelves. We all love a real hero. Most books available nowadays, however, are focussed only on the famous Endurance expedition, or they are weighty biographical tomes that won't appeal to the majority of readers. Enter Baughman's "Shackleton of the ...             Big-Enough Anna5 reviews Pam Flowers Alaska Northwest Books, 2003 Exquisite, no matter what your age This exquisitely illustrated book is based on the true story of a litle sled dog who rose to the occasion and became a hero in her own right. Anna, a small Alaskan Husky female, was judged too small to be of any use when Pam Flowers made her historic journey across the Arctic with a team of sled dogs(chronicled in ALONE ACROSS THE ARCTIC). But when Pam's wise old leader dog disappeared, Pam ...             The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910-134 reviews Apsley Cherry-Garrard Trans-Atlantic Publications, 1994 Worst Journey - best book Apsley Cherry-Garrard's amazing tale of life in the Antarctic as the youngest member of Scott's fatal expedition. I was gripped from the very first line of this book; "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised." He describes wearing clothes for 6 months with no dirt building up on them, or it being 'more lonely than London' and ...             What the Ice Gets : Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-19164 reviews Melinda Mueller Van West & Company, Publishers, 2000 Shackleton Brought to Life This epic poem brings Shackleton's attempt to reach the South Pole to life! Some of the chapters tell the story from the point of view of individual members of the expedition; some describe particular events. Each fact is documented. Its one thing to know that Shackleton and a part of the crew left the rest of the crew behind, and travelled 800 miles in a dory on a rescue mission. Mueller ...             Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition : The Voyage of the Nimrod4 reviews Beau Riffenburgh, 2004 A Magnificent Telling of a Magnificent Expedition Everyone has heard about Ernest Shackleton's remarkable Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, when his ship Endurance was crushed in the ice and Shackleton made his epic open-boat journey to South Georgia to help rescue his men. What most people don't know was that the first expedition Shackleton led to the Antarctic was every bit as full of derring-do and death-defying moments as his later one. ...             Innocents on the Ice: A Memoir of Antarctic Exploration, 19574 reviews John C. Behrendt University Press of Colorado, 1998 What actually happened at Ellsworth Station IGY? The title is very appropriate for Behrendt's diary of events at Ellsworth Station on the Weddell Sea margin of the Filchner Ice Shelf and their long geophysical traverse as far south as the Dufek Massif during IGY (1956-1958). The diary, that of a graduate student geophysicist and neophyte Antarctican, is made much more interesting by the running commentary from one of Antarctica's most ...             The Last Light Breaking: Living Among Alaska's Inupiat Eskimos4 reviews Nick Jans Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, 2007 Not a traditional Ethnography, but still amazing When I first ordered this book, I was looking for an ethnography of the Inupiat. I didn't look that closely at the description of the book, but since it had a five star rating, I still bought it. The day it arrived, I started reading it and found at that what I received was not what I was expecting...however I still couldn't put it down. Jans' stories of life with the Inupiat, are amazing. ...             The Worst Journey in the World (Penguin Classics)4 reviews Apsley Cherry-Garrard Penguin Classics, 2006 An Adventure book Inside a History Book In 1911-1912 the author as a young man was part of the ill fated Robert Falcon Scott British Expedition to be the "first" at the South Pole. The larger history of that effort's limited success and the stories of the lives lost is a well told as historical fact. Within the book lies the Chapter about the author's effort with two other companions to travel in a winter journey for the purpose of ...              search for books 1914-1916, 1914-1917, antarctic, antarctica, big-enough, breaking, classics, complete, continent, endurance, expedition, exploration, explorer, extraordinary, forgotten, harrowing, innocents, inupiat, journey, largest, leadership, lessons, paradise, parallel, penguin, shackleton, southern, strangers, warriors, wildlife books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen music: My Angel Impressum - about us get your own free shoutbox