Explorer's Eye First-Hand Accounts of Adventure and Exploration

Name: Explorer's Eye First-Hand Accounts of Adventure and Exploration
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ISBN: 9781585677665

ISBN-10: 1585677663

ISBN-13: 9781585677665

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Authors: Fergus Fleming, Annabel Merullo, Michael Palin

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Book details

List price: $45.00
Publisher: Abrams, Inc.
Publication date: 10/20/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.454
Language: English

Ernest Shackleton (18741922) was a junior officer under Robert Falcon Scott during the 19011904 expedition to the South Pole. His expedition on the whaler Nimrodin 1907 earned him a knighthood.Fergus Fleming is the author of Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps, Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole, and Barrows Boys.



Introduction



In to the Great Barrier Reef and beyond



Epic voyages to the south seas



Passage to Tabiti



Botanical studies in South America



Into the wilderness of North America



Voyage to the Niger



Saharan experiences



The quest for the North West passage



The slave trail to Chad



Finding the fabled city of Timbuctoo



Icebound in the Arctic



The lost cities of Central America



The voyage of the beagle



The first landing on Antarctica



Stranded in search of the pole



In Africa and the Orient



Mapping Australia



The source of the Nile



A Victorian in Africa



The conquest of the Matterborn



Marooned off Greenland



Through the African interior



Britain's attempt at the North Pole



Congo journey



An Englishwoman abroad



Farthest North



Tales from Tibet



Adventures in Central Asia



A voyage in the Arcitc Sea



Nearest the pole



The great Arctic fraud



The discovery of Machu Picchu



First to the South Pole



Tragedy in the Antarctic



A solitary march in Antarctica



Quest for survival in Antarctica



Mystery on Everest



Zeppelins on top of the world



Alone on the Greenland ice cap



Into the stratosphere



Adventures in Brazil



Trekking in Arabia



Exploring the deep



By plane to the poles



Kon-Tiki's Pacific voyage



Travels in southern Arabia



The summit of Annapurna



The conqest of Everest



First crossing of Antarctica



Underwater discoveries



On foot across the polar pack



Footsteps on the moon



The trans-global expedition



Around the world by balloon