Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals
By: Beryl Bainbridge , Robert Falcon Scott
4.20
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
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1. Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard
By: Sara Wheeler
4.13
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) was one of the youngest members of Captain Scott's final expediti… read more
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2. An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture
By: Roger Scruton
3.89
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
Received by the British press with equal acclaim and indignation, this book sets out to define and … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure
By: Richard Evelyn Byrd , Richard E. Harrison , Kieran Mulvaney
4.02
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
When Admiral Richard E. Byrd set out on his second Antarctic expedition in 1934, he was already an … read more
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"If the time was not sufficient, well and good; let the job be resumed another day."-Richard Evelyn Byrd, Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure
"If the time was not sufficient, well and good; let the job be resumed another dat."-Richard Evelyn Byrd, Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure
"The universe was a cosmos, not a chaos; man was as rightfully a part of that cosmos as were the day and night."-Richard Evelyn Byrd, Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure
"Next morning, when I got up, the inside temperature was 30° below zero. The new arrangement was working quite nicely indeed."-Richard Evelyn Byrd, Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure
4. 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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- nonfiction
5. Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals
By: Beryl Bainbridge , Robert Falcon Scott
4.20
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
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- autobiography
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6. The Farm
By: Tom Rob Smith
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
Until the moment he received a frantic call from his father, Daniel believed his parents were heade… read more
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7. The Girl Who Saved Christmas
By: Matt Haig
5.00
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
JOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF MAGIC If magic has a beginning, can it also have an end? When Amelia wants a… read more
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8. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
By: Alfred Lansing
4.44
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, on… read more
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"We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"[...] "Who the hell are you?" he said at last. The man in the center stepped forward. "My name is Shackleton" he replied in a quiet voice."-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
"There once was a mouse who lived in a tavern. One night the mouse found a leaky barrel of beer, and he drank all he could hold. When the mouse had finished, he sat up, twirled his whiskers, and looke…"-Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
9. 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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10. Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
By: Sara Wheeler
3.63
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn … read more
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11. 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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12. The Surgeon's Mate (Aubrey & Maturin, #7)
By: Patrick O'Brian
4.40
Format: 382 pages, Paperback
"Vividly detailed 19th-century settings and dramatic tension punctuated with flashes of wry humor m… read more
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"(She) threw Stephen a quick, apologetic glance and ran into the house. She might be in a strange hurry of spirits, but she moved with the perfect, unconscious grace that had always touched him, and h…"-Patrick O'Brian, The Surgeon's Mate (Aubrey & Maturin, #7)
13. South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-12
By: Roald Amundsen
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
At last we got away, on October 19. The weather for the past few days had not been altogether relia… read more
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14. The Innocence of Father Brown (Father Brown, #1)
By: G.K. Chesterton
0.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes a… read more
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15. The Conquest of Happiness
By: Bertrand Russell , None
4.20
Format: None pages,
The books of Bertrand Russell are a modern substitute for the Bible. - TIME "The Conquest of Happin… read more
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16. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
By: Ed Zwick
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends … read more
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"One of Patsy Broderick's choicer comments was to describe my writing as ' limp as a penis ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"I called Matthew Broderick. The radiophone was working again. 'Hi, Matthew, I hear you want to talk about the script. Over .' 'Yeah, well, I have a lot of notes…' He neglected to say “ over ."-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
"From the moment we met Patsy Broderick was contemptuous, demeaning, and volatile. As Matthew sat in opaque silence, I was forced to defend, in excruciating detail, my rationale for every line in ever…"-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
17. 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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18. 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
19. The White Darkness
By: David Grann
3.96
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager, a thrill… read more
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"Passion for something can easily tip into obsession, which is a dangerous thing, especially when those affected are they very people who so loyally stand and wait. -Henry Worsley"-David Grann, The White Darkness
20. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolution… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
"The young von Neumann made an instant impact on his new tutors. His first mentor, Gábor Szego˝, who would later lead Stanford University’s maths department, was moved to tears after their first meeti…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"The best estimates of Trinity’s power put the figure somewhere between 20,000 and 22,000 tons. Oppenheimer reached for poetry, recalling a verse from ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, which…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"At one of his ‘high-proof, high-I.Q. parties’ one analyst produced a fat cylindrical ‘coin’ that was something of a RAND obsession at the time. Milled by the RAND machine shop at the behest of Willia…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
"With his school years behind him, von Neumann took the train to Berlin with his father in September 1921 to begin the arduous programme of study that had been agreed. A passenger sharing their carria…"-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
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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