10 must-read history books like Snow Widows: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition through the Eyes of the Women They Left Behind by Katherine MacInnes

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Snow Widows: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition through the Eyes of the Women They Left Behind

By: Katherine MacInnes

3.87

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Mining never-before-seen archive material to reconstruct the lives of five women – wives, mothers a…

If you liked the history plot in Snow Widows: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition through the Eyes of the Women They Left Behind by Katherine MacInnes , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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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
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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2. Corpus (Tom Wilde #1)

By: Rory Clements

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

1936: Eine Mordserie erschüttert Cambridge. Internationale Kräfte kämpfen um Einfluss. Der nächste … read more

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3. The Three Hostages (Richard Hannay #4)

By: John Buchan

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

After the war and newly knighted, Richard Hannay is living peacefully in the Cotswolds with his wif… read more

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"We are all, even the best of us, egoists and self-deceivers, and without a little comfortable make-believe to clothe us we should freeze in the outer winds."

-John Buchan, The Three Hostages (Richard Hannay #4)

"It was pretty clear that he was mad, for madness means just this dislocation of the modes of thought which mortals have agreed upon as necessary to keep the world together."

-John Buchan, The Three Hostages (Richard Hannay #4)

"I loathed having to screw myself up to emergencies late in the day. Such things should take place in the early morning. It was like going over the top in France; I didn’t mind it so much when it happ…"

-John Buchan, The Three Hostages (Richard Hannay #4)

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4. Sycamore Gap (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #2)

By: L.J. Ross

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Detective Chief Inspector Ryan believes he has put his turbulent history behind him. Then, in the e… read more

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5. The Hollow Land

By: Jane Gardam

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The barren, beautiful Cumbrian fells provide the bewitching setting for the adventures of Bell and … read more

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6. A Woman in the Polar Night

By: Christiane Ritter

4.88

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

For most of us, the Arctic conjures up images of freezing and forsaken solitude. Hence, Austrian pa… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction

7. The Box Of Delights

By: John Masefield

4.00

Format: 16 pages,

Strange things begin to happen the minute young Kay Harker boards the train to go home for Christma… read more

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8. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

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9. Polar Wives: The Remarkable Women behind the World's Most Daring Explorers

By: Jon Bowermaster , Kari Herbert

4.01

Format: None pages, Paperback

The compelling stories of seven adventurous women. Polar explorers were the superstars of the "hero… read more

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10. A Genius at the Chalet School (The Chalet School, #38)

By: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer

3.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Originally published in hardcover in 1956, The Genius at the Chalet Schoolwas split into two volume… read more

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11. 17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis and the Biggest Cover-Up in History

By: Andrew Morton

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Historian Andrew Morton's 17 CARNATIONScombines his considerable research background with his prove… read more

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12. The Far Pavilions

By: M.M. Kaye

3.97

Format: 12 pages,

A magnificent romantic/historical/adventure novel set in India at the time of mutiny. The Far Pavil… read more

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13. The Magic Summer

By: Noel Streatfeild

4.28

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An adventurous summer with four children visiting their eccentric great aunt in the Irish countrysi… read more

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14. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

By: Lucy Worsley

4.20

Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition

A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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15. 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
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"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

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16. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

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"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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17. Holy Island (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #1)

By: L.J. Ross

4.01

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

Detective Chief Inspector Ryan retreats to Holy Island seeking sanctuary when he is forced to take … read more

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18. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

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19. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By: Cat Bohannon

4.32

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more

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  • feminism
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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21. The English Führer (Tom Wilde #7)

By: Rory Clements

4.11

Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition

Autumn 1945 - Off the east coast of England, a Japanese sub surfaces, unloads its mysterious cargo,… read more

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22. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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23. Agent Running in the Field

By: John Le Carré

3.85

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent… read more

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"Beloof niets waar je niet op kunt terugkomen."

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"O cartaz seguinte anuncia as características curativas dos famosos banhos. Não há nenhum cartaz a anunciar que a cidade também é célebre como o local de encontro preferido da fina-flor do crime organ…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"Para quem tem acesso autorizado à Poeira de Estrelas, o espetáculo começa dentro de cinquenta e cinco minutos. Para quem não tem, há dois funcionários com olhos de águia à porta que terão todo o gost…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"It is my considered opinion, that for Britain and Europe, and for liberal democracy across the entire world as a whole, Britain’s departure from the European Union in the time of Donald Trump, and Br…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

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24. The Stranding

By: Kate Sawyer

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Ruth lives in the heart of the city. Working, drinking, falling in love: the rhythm of her vivid an… read more

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25. The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes

By: Kate Strasdin

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life - from family and friends to industry and Empire - to… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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26. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

By: Madhumita Murgia

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. Everest 1922: The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World's Highest Mountain

By: Mick Conefrey

3.91

Format: 352 pages, ebook

The dramatic and inspiring account of the very first attempt to climb Mount Everest, published to c… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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28. Wdowy Antarktydy. Kobiety, których mężowie nie wrócili z ostatniej wyprawy Scotta

By: Anne Fletcher

4.03

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Trzy kobiety – dziś anonimowe, choć ich mężczyźni zapisali się na kartach historii jako bohaterscy … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. Snow Widows: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition through the Eyes of the Women They Left Behind

By: Katherine MacInnes

3.87

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Mining never-before-seen archive material to reconstruct the lives of five women – wives, mothers a… read more

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  • feminism
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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30. The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family

By: Olivia Williams

3.61

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

THE STORY OF THE SAVOY HOTEL'S FOUNDERS, THROUGH A CENTURY OF LUXURY."For The Gondoliers-themed bir… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

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4.13

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4.88

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Lucy Worsley

4.20

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4.02

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Len Deighton

3.93

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