Shackleton: A Biography
By: Ranulph Fiennes
4.32
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
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1. An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor
By: Michael Smith
4.51
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The story of the remarkable Tom Crean who ran away to sea aged 15 and played a memorable role in An… read more
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2. South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914 - 1917
By: Ernest Shackleton
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shack… read more
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3. Nelson: Britannia's God of War
By: Andrew D. Lambert
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
'Fascinating . . . Shot through with fresh insights . . . No previous biography has attempted anyth… read more
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4. Endurance
By: Patrick O'Brian , Frank A. Worsley
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endur… read more
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5. The Worst Journey in the World
By: Apsley Cherry-Garrard , Caroline Alexander
4.38
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
The Worst Journey in the Worldrecounts Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole… read more
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6. Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
By: David Roberts
3.30
Format: None pages, Paperback
"An important missing story from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration."--Laurence Gonzales, auth… read more
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8. The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen
By: Stephen R. Bown
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
The Last Vikingunravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced… read more
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9. The Nazi Hunters
By: Damien Lewis
3.82
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The Nazi Huntersis the incredible, hitherto untold story of the most secret chapter in the SAS's hi… read more
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10. The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance
By: Mensun Bound
4.12
Format: 409 pages, Kindle Edition
"As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. ... Bound's account is a triumph. The… read more
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11. Madhouse at the End of the Earth
By: Julian Sancton
4.27
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expeditio… read more
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"Among the greatest threats future travelers to Mars are likely to face is an interplanetary version of winter over-syndrome. The unknown icescapes around the earth poles, particularly Antarctica, see…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"Cook referred to the symptoms collectively as polar anemia. Researchers today use the term winter over-syndrome. But it's essentially the same thing. A prevailing theory suggests it's a form of hypot…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"But in emphasizing the likelihood of a connection between winter over-syndrome and what is now known as seasonal effective disorder, a variation in mood that correlates with a dwindling of daylight h…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"Note: Dr. Lawrence Polinkis who analyzed clinical data from American men and women at Antarctica's Mcmurdo station Amundsen Scott's South Pole station posits specifically that the memory loss and oth…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
12. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
13. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
By: Charles Spencer
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more
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14. The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943
By: James Holland
4.33
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed WWII historian James Holland’s new book both recasts the controversial Italian Campaign a… read more
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15. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire
By: Michael Palin
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more
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16. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By: David Grann
4.19
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more
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17. Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France
By: James Holland
4.45
Format: 650 pages, Hardcover
D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Alli… read more
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18. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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19. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
By: Max Hastings
4.40
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tens… read more
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20. SAS great escapes
By: Damien Lewis
4.26
Format: 10 pages, Audible Audio
No food. No water. Out of ammo. Safety is south. But between there and here is 150 miles of barren … read more
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21. Erebus: The Story of a Ship
By: Michael Palin
4.29
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
In the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval … read more
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22. Shackleton: A Biography
By: Ranulph Fiennes
4.32
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Discover the story Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition through the words of the worl… read more
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- nature
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23. Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm
By: Lee Schofield
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In 2015, England's last and loneliest golden eagle died in an unmarked spot among the remote easter… read more
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24. Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War
By: Tim Marshall
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular wr… read more
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25. The Ninth Child
By: Sally Magnusson
3.74
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
A spellbinding novel of a young doctor's wife, Isabel Aird, struggling to make her childless life m… read more
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26. Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
By: Jonny Steinberg
4.53
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new account… read more
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27. The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness
By: Ken Smith
4.23
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
Could you leave behind the bustle of modern society and spend your days immersed in nature? In The … read more
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28. Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World
By: Sinclair McKay
4.01
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from… read more
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29. We Were Warriors
By: Johnny Mercer
4.49
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
The rounds were single shot from the same two enemy positions, trying to pick me off. They were kic… read more
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"It wasn't that I was lazy- I was a bloody hard worker- I just found concentrating on one thing particularly difficult when I had such mammoth internal battles going on. I had no idea what I was going…"-Johnny Mercer, We Were Warriors
30. Limitless: From Dingle to Cape Horn, Finding my True North in the Earth’s Vastest Oceans
By: Nuala Moore
4.21
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The sea has always been a part of Nuala Moore’s her earliest memory is of jumping off her father’s… read more
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31. Nature’s Ghosts: The world we lost and how to bring it back
By: Sophie Yeo
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For thousands of years, humans have been the architects of the natural world. Our activities have p… read more
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