The Longest Winter: Scott's Other Heroes
By: Meredith Hooper
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Through the eyes of the men involved, Meredith Hooper recounts one of the greatest tales of adventu…
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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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- history
- nonfiction
- survival
- adventure
2. A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole
By: Diana Preston
4.09
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier finally found wh… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- survival
- adventure
3. Terra Nova
By: Ted Tally
0.00
Format: 798 pages,
Drawn from the journals and letters found on the frozen body of Captain Scott, the action of the pl… read more
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4. Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals
By: Beryl Bainbridge , Robert Falcon Scott
4.20
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
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- history
- nonfiction
- adventure
5. 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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- history
- nonfiction
- survival
- adventure
"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
6. Pym
By: Mat Johnson
3.91
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A comic journey into the ultimate land of whiteness by an unlikely band of African American adventu… read more
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- adventure
7. 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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- history
- nonfiction
- adventure
8. Redshirts
By: John Scalzi
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of… read more
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"Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us."-John Scalzi, Redshirts
"We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole."-John Scalzi, Redshirts
"Who are you and what medications aren't you taking?" Finn said."-John Scalzi, Redshirts
"In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly."-John Scalzi, Redshirts
9. The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party
By: Kelly Tyler-Lewis
3.97
Format: None pages,
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10. The Birthday Boys
By: Beryl Bainbridge
3.86
Format: 416 pages,
In this stunning novel, award-winning author Beryl Bainbridge offers a fictionalized account of the… 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. Captain Scott
By: Ranulph Fiennes
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Presents the story of one of the greatest explorers who ever lived by 'the world's greatest living … read more
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13. The Uncommon Reader
By: Alan Bennett
3.74
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminster traveling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen… read more
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"Книгите подпалват въображението."-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
"Archbishop. Why do I never read the lesson?"-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
"At eighty, things do not occur; they recur."-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
"A book is a device to ignite the imagination."-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
14. The Ice Master
By: Jennifer Niven
3.66
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
The Karluk set out in 1913 in search of an undiscovered continent, with the largest scientific staf… read more
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15. Still Life: Inside The Antarctic Huts of Scott and Shackleton
By: Nigel Watson , None
4.19
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent, hauntingly beautiful photographic study of the Antarctic huts that served as expedit… read more
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16. Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.34
Format: 376 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This is where the dragons went. They lie... not dead, not asleep, but... dormant. And although the … read more
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"Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time."-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
"... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative."-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
"Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?"-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
17. Clementine (Clementine, #1)
By: Sara Pennypacker , Marla Frazee
3.44
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
Clementine is having not so good of a week. -On Monday she's sent to the principal's office for cut… read more
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18. 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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- history
- nonfiction
- adventure
19. 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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- history
- nonfiction
- survival
- adventure
"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
20. Leech
By: Hiron Ennes
3.60
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s repla… read more
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"Wherever we are, we want to be somewhere else."-Hiron Ennes, Leech
21. The Lamplighters
By: Emma Stonex
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Inspired by a haunting true story, a gorgeous and atmospheric novel about the mysterious disappeara… read more
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"Helen thinks I haven't noticed that she's stopped wearing it. But I notice everything about her, all that's changed when I go ashore."-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"It felt like the more I read, the more free I was in my mind, and if you’re free in your mind, then it doesn’t matter what else is going on."-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"Time gives you a bit of distance where you can look back on whatever's happened to you and not feel all the feelings you once had; those feeling have calmed down and they're not at the forefront of y…"-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"Time gives you a bit of distance where you can look back on whatever's happened to you and not feel all the feelings you once had; those feeling have calmed down and they're not at the forefront of y…"-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
22. Where the Dead Wait
By: Ally Wilkes
3.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate an… read more
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"Why would I want to die last?"-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait
"You make a god of the things you fear or love. What could be more natural than that?"-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait
23. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
By: Sonia Purnell
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War … read more
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- nonfiction
24. The Weaver and the Witch Queen
By: Genevieve Gornichec
3.88
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
The lives of two women—one desperate only to save her missing sister, the other a witch destined to… read more
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25. 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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- nonfiction
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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
26. 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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- nonfiction
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27. Wanderers (Wanderers, #1)
By: Chuck Wendig
3.98
Format: 845 pages, ebook
Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appea… read more
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"You're brave and smart and kind and I'd be a fool not to trust you."-Chuck Wendig, Wanderers (Wanderers, #1)
"Humankind was a disease. The earth was the body. Climate change was the fever."-Chuck Wendig, Wanderers (Wanderers, #1)
"Nothing except the desire between them, the ground below them, the night above."-Chuck Wendig, Wanderers (Wanderers, #1)
"Somehow, the disappearance of coffee feels worse than the disappearance of all humankind."-Chuck Wendig, Wanderers (Wanderers, #1)
28. Wayward (Wanderers, #2)
By: Chuck Wendig
4.21
Format: 816 pages, Hardcover
Five years ago, ordinary Americans fell under the grip of a strange new malady that caused them to … read more
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29. Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
By: Buddy Levy
4.42
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came… read more
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- nonfiction
- survival
- adventure
30. Race to the Frozen North: The Matthew Henson Story
By: Catherine Johnson
4.04
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Matthew Henson was simply an ordinary man. That was, until Commander Robert E. Peary entered his li… read more
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- adventure
31. The Longest Winter: Scott's Other Heroes
By: Meredith Hooper
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Through the eyes of the men involved, Meredith Hooper recounts one of the greatest tales of adventu… read more
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