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Hell With A Capital H: A New Polar Hero
Hell With A Capital H: A New
Polar Hero
    On 29 March 1912, as
    Scott and his two
    companions lay dying in
    their tent, elsewhere on
    the polar ice-cap six
    members of his ill-fated
    expedition were fighting
    for their lives. This was
    the so-called Northern
    Party, hand-picked by
    Scott to undertake his
    most significant
    programme of scientific
    research. The unsung hero
    of this group was Dr
    Murray Levick, whose
    attention to diet and
    mental and physical
    fitness played a major
    part in their survival.
    The doctor was a
    sensitive recorder and a
    talented photographer,
    it is on his previously
    unpublished diaries,
    monographs, photographs
    and sketches that this
    book is based. The six
    men were landed by Terra
    Nova in January 1911 at
    Cape Adare, 450 miles
    north of Scott's base
    camp at Cape Evans. They
    spent nearly a year
    there, living in a
    rudimentary hut,
    surveying and collecting
    specimens from the
    beautiful but
    inhospitable bay and
    shoreline fringed by
    inaccessible mountains.
    They were then dropped
    off mid-way between the
    two Capes to continue
    their work. The ship was
    due to pick them up on 17
    February 1912. A month
    later she still hadn't
    come, and the men were
    forced to face the
    Antarctic winter in an
    igloo dug out of a
    snowdrift on
    'Inexpressible Island'.
    After spending
    six-and-a-half months
    entombed in their
    underground ice-cave, in
    conditions of
    unimaginable physical and
    mental hardship,
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Deep Jungle
Deep Jungle
    DEEP JUNGLE is an
    exploration of the most
    alien and feared habitat
    on earth. Starting with
    man's earliest recorded
    adventures, Fred Pearce
    adventures high into the
    canopy - home to
    two-thirds of all the
    creatures on our planet,
    many of them never coming
    down to earth. Even now,
    new species of animals
    are being discovered. And
    Pearce discovers secrets
    about how evolution
    works, the intricate
    links that connect us
    all, and maybe even
    clues to where humans
    came from.

    The
    jungle holds the key to
    our future foods and
    medicines, our climate
    and to our understanding
    of how life works. At the
    start of a new millennium
    Pearce asks why we
    continue to waste
    precious time - and
    billions of dollars -
    looking for signs of life
    elsewhere in our universe
    when the greatest range
    of life-forms that have
    ever existed lies right
    here on our doorstep.
    Today environmentalists
    say we are on the verge
    of destroying the last
    rainforests, and with it
    the planet's evolutionary
    crucible, and maybe even
    its ability to maintain
    life on Earth. But nature
    has a way of getting its
    own back. The Mayans and
    the people of Angkor went
    too far in manipulating
    nature and paid the
    ultimate price. Their
    civilisations died and
    the jungle returned.
    Nature reclaimed it's own
    and it may do so again.
    ..
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Lady Franklin
Lady Franklin's Revenge
    Born into a wealthy
    London family in
    late-eighteenth-century
    England, Jane Griffin
    enjoyed nothing like the
    opportunities available
    to men of her class. And
    yet she became a world
    traveller, ranging far
    off the beaten path of
    Grand-Tour Europe to
    explore Russia, Greece,
    the Holy Land and
    northern Africa. She rode
    a donkey into Nazareth,
    sailed a rat-infested
    boat up the Nile River,
    and, at age of seventy,
    circumnavigated the globe
    in rough sailing ships.


    Jane married
    Captain John Franklin at
    thirty-six. She helped
    him seize the opportunity
    of a lifetime
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Fatal Passage
Fatal Passage
    The true story of the
    remarkable John Rae -
    Arctic traveller and
    Hudson's Bay Company
    doctor - FATAL PASSAGE is
    a tale of imperial
    ambition and high
    adventure. In 1854 Rae
    solved the two great
    Arctic mysteries: the
    fate of the doomed
    Franklin expedition and
    the location of the last
    navigable link in the
    Northwest
    Passage.

    But Rae
    was to be denied the
    recognition he so richly
    deserved. On returning to
    London, he faced a
    campaign of denial and
    vilification led by two
    of the most powerful
    people in Victorian
    England: Lady Jane
    Franklin, the widow of
    the lost Sir John, and
    Charles Dickens, the
    most influential writer
    of the age. A remarkable
    story of courage and
    determination, FATAL
    PASSAGE is Ken McGoogan's
    passionate redemption of
    Rae's rightful place in
    history. In this richly
    documented and
    illustrated work,
    McGoogan captures the
    essence of one man's
    indomitable
    spirit.
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The Mystery Of Mallory And Irvine
The Mystery Of Mallory And
Irvine
    On 8th June 1924 Geroge
    Mallory and Andrew Irvine
    set off from camp at 26,
    700 fett, bound for the
    summit of Everest. They
    were watched by Noel
    Odell who, in a famous
    despatch to the Times,
    described how the clouds
    parted to unveil the
    summit ridge and final
    peak of the roof of the
    world. He watched as the
    two black dots made
    towards the top, but
    after five minutes the
    clouds rolled in. They
    were never seen alive
    again. Did Mallory and
    Irvine conquer Everest
    almost 30 years before
    Hillary and Tenzing? How
    did they die? Where yhey
    the Olympian heroes
    described by history? Was
    George Mallory - friend
    of Lytton Strachey,
    partner the inexperienced
    young Irvine? An
    authoratitive book....
    prepared to debunk one of
    mountaineerings most
    cherished beliefs. THE
    OBSERVER.
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The Mystery Of Mallory And Irvine: Revised Edition
The Mystery Of Mallory And
Irvine: Revised Edition
    On 8th June 1924 Geroge
    Mallory and Andrew Irvine
    set off from camp at 26,
    700 fett, bound for the
    summit of Everest. They
    were watched by Noel
    Odell who, in a famous
    despatch to the Times,
    described how the clouds
    parted to unveil the
    summit ridge and final
    peak of the roof of the
    world. He watched as the
    two black dots made
    towards the top, but
    after five minutes the
    clouds rolled in. They
    were never seen alive
    again. Did Mallory and
    Irvine conquer Everest
    almost 30 years before
    Hillary and Tenzing? How
    did they die? Where yhey
    the Olympian heroes
    described by history? Was
    George Mallory - friend
    of Lytton Strachey,
    partner the inexperienced
    young Irvine? An
    authoratitive book....
    prepared to debunk one of
    mountaineerings most
    cherished beliefs. THE
    OBSERVER.
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Bright Paradise: Victorian Scientific Travellers
Bright Paradise: Victorian
Scientific Travellers
    'A fabulously rich,
    anecdotal and gripping
    account of those men and
    women who ventured out
    from Britain into the
    swamps and jungles of the
    tropics in search,
    knowingly or not, of the
    missing link. Through
    their stoical-sometimes
    crack-brained-voyages,
    the shape of the world,
    geographically and
    biologically, was
    elucidated. Never have
    more significant journeys
    been made....
    Enthusiastic, informed
    and racy, this is one of
    the most invigorating
    accounts of the exploits
    of people from an age
    whose intrepidity is
    staggering. ' 'Peter
    Raby's book follows a
    disparate crew of
    botanists, scientists
    and collectors, who
    tried to order the
    earthly paradise which
    unfolded around them.
    Entrepreneurs they may
    have been - many were
    dependent on selling
    their specimens to
    finance their trips-but
    they were also scrupulous
    and sensitive
    observers.... Raby finds
    some shimmering,
    personalities.... His
    book is excellent. '
    DAILY TELEGRAPH
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Ancient Mariner
Ancient Mariner
    In 1757, when
    twelve-year-old Samuel
    Hearne joined the Royal
    Navy as an apprentice to
    the famous fighting
    captain Samuel Hood, he
    was embarking on a life
    of high adventure. This
    young sailor would become
    the first European to
    reach the Arctic coast of
    North America, the
    author of a classic work
    of exploration
    literature, and the man
    who inspired one of the
    greatest poems in the
    English language. Yet,
    for over two centuries,
    Hearne
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Those Who Dared: Stories from the golden age of exploration
Those Who Dared: Stories From
The Golden Age Of Exploration
    Throughout their history,
    the Guardian and
    the Observer have
    avidly reported
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The White Lantern And Other Pursuits
The White Lantern And Other
Pursuits
    Never has master
    storyteller Evan Connell
    been more enthralling
    than in these
    incandescent pages -
    tales of real-life
    adventure ranging from
    the archaeology of
    Olduvai gorge to the
    exploration of the
    Antarctic; from Viking
    voyages to an Ice Age
    xylophone. Never has
    reality so far surpassed
    mere fiction or fantasy
    than in this magnificent
    volume.
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