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Nonfiction accounts of historical and contemporary expeditions to remote regions.
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Dead Reckoning: Great Adventure Writing from the Golden Age of Exploration 1800-1900 Collects top nineteenth-century discovery voyage stories, including those about Fridtjof Nansen's solitary walk to the North Pole, Mary Kingsley's forays into the West African jungle, and Richard Burton's forbidden pilgrimage to Mecca. 2003 | ||||||||
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Alexander, Caroline The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition Drawing upon previously unavailable sources, the author illustrates how Ernest Shackleton saved his 27-member Antarctic expedition after their ship, the Endurance, was crushed in an ice pack. Shackleton sailed 800 miles in an open lifeboat to reach help and rescue his crew. Includes striking original black-and-white photographs by the expedition's photographer. 1998 Appears on the following book lists:  Alex Award - Nonfiction Outdoor Adventure and Survival
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Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West Ambrose vividly reconstructs the 2,000 mile Lewis and Clark expedition. In addition to exploring and laying claim to the west, Lewis and Clark undertook one of the most ambitious scientific expeditions ever. The author uses the explorers' journals to recreate encounters with Indian tribes, river travel, mountain portages, and battles with insects, animals and weather. 1996 Appears on the following book lists: History
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Arnesen, Liv No Horizon Is So Far: Two Women and Their Extraordinary Journey Across Antarctica Ann Bancroft, of Minnesota, and Liv Arnesen, of Norway, were the first women to trek by foot across Antarctica. Here they tell the inspiring story of their treacherous but victorious expedition. 2003 Appears on the following book lists: Amelia Bloomer Project
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Breashears, David Last Climb: The Legendary Everest Expeditions of George Mallory The British climber George Mallory disappeared in 1924 trying to become the first person to reach the top of Mt. Everest. Whether or not he was successful in his quest to reach the summit has continued to be a matter of debate. This book documents Mallory's climb as well as the 1999 search for his remains, offering dramatic photographs of both expeditions. 1999 | ||||||||
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Cherry-Garrard, Apsley The Worst Journey in the World Originally published in 1922, this book is considered a classic exploration account. Cherry-Garrard was the youngest member of Robert Falcon Scott's polar expedition in 1910. He lucidly describes the beauty of the Antarctic landscape and the suffering endured on the expedition. 2002 | ||||||||
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Cussler, Clive The Sea Hunters Popular fiction writer Cussler applies his storytelling skills to nonfiction in this book (and its sequel, Sea Hunters II), describing the real-life adventure of searching for lost ships. He recounts the sinking of dozens of ships, including a 17th century French warship and a Civil War frigate, and the present-day investigations for their wrecks. 1996 | ||||||||
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Dolnick, Edward Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon Trying to map the Colorado and Green Rivers, Powell led a team of Civil War veterans in rowboats through the Grand Canyon. Despite their lack of experience in navigating dangerous rapids, Powell and some of his men survived. This account of their expedition is based on their journals. 2001 | ||||||||
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Gallenkamp, Charles Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions In the early 20th century, Roy Chapman Andrews undertook 5 expeditions to Mongolia, mapping the region and discovering dragon skeletons and fossilized eggs. This book recounts Andrews' life and his adventurous explorations. 2001 | ||||||||
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Hemmleb, Jochen Ghosts of Everest: the Search for Mallory Irvine Did Mallory and Irvine reach Everest's summit 30 years before Hillary and Tenzing? This work presents the story of Mallory and Irvine's last climb and of the team of climbers and researchers who found the body of Britain's greatest mountaineer. Written by the three key members of the team, it presents an unfolding of the expeditions. 1999 | ||||||||
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Leys, Simon The Wreck of the Batavia Traces the harrowing 1629 shipwreck of nearly three hundred survivors on small islands off the coast of western Australia who found themselves at the mercy of a visionary psychopath and his team of supporters, a group that brutalized the survivors before eventually slaughtering them in an organized massacre. 2006 | ||||||||
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Maurice, Edward Beauclerk The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic At 16, the author, signed up with the Hundson's Bay Company, the Company of Gentlemen Adventureres, and ended up at an isolated trading post in the Candian Artic, where there was no communicaiton with the outside world and only one ship arrived each year. But the Inuit people who traded there taught him how to track polar bears, build igloos, and survive expeditions in the ferocious winter storms. Describes his life with the Intuits and transports the reader to a time and way of life now lost forever. 2005 | ||||||||
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Moss, Sarah The Frozen Ship: The Histories and Tales of Polar Exploration This thought-provoking examination of the most influential and popular accounts of polar exploration—from Viking settlers and Renaissance conquerors to expeditions led by such famous explorers as Ernest Shackleton, Richard Byrd, and Roald Amundsen—emphasizes themes of endurance, greed, obsession, and self-sacrifice in tales that have captured the popular imagination for centuries. The stories that consider the life-threatening risks of polar exploration, the enduring appeal of romanticized frozen landscapes, and issues of national identity that are linked with exploration, also include descriptions of indigenous communities, forgotten stories of women at the poles, Robert Falcon Scott’s meticulous account of his own dying, and purely imaginary approaches to polar travel such as Frankenstein and Winnie the Pooh. 2006 | ||||||||
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Niven, Jennifer The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk Based on the diaries of those who were rescued and those who perished, this is the chilling true story of the "Karluk's" doomed 1913 exploration of the Arctic and the heroic efforts of the ship's captain, the Ice Master, who traveled by foot through Siberia to find help. 2000 Appears on the following book lists: Outdoor Adventure and Survival
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Obregon, Mauricio Beyond the Edge of the Sea: Sailing with Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses, the Vikings, and Other Explorers of the Ancient World Historian and sailor Obregon re-enacted the journeys of many historical and mythical explorers, including heroes of Greek legend, the Vikings, and the early Muslim explorers. In this slim volume he shares a wealth of information about early geography and navigation, bringing to life the ancient travel accounts. 2001 | ||||||||
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Rabinowitz, Alan Beyond the Last Village: A Journey of Discovery in Asia's Forbidden Wilderness Rabinowitz, a wildlife biologist at the Bronx Zoo, is one of the few foreigners who have received permission to travel to Myanmar's sparsely populated mountain regions. In his expeditions, the author discovered a tiny deer previously unknown to scientists, convinced the government to create protected natural areas, and learned new things about himself. 2001 | ||||||||
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Roberts, David, ed. Points Unknown: A Century of Great Exploration The editors of Outside magazine have collected true exploration stories by Ernest Shackleton, Edward Abbey, Freya Stark, Jon Krakauer and others. The book is divided into three sections: Obsessions, Idylls, and Ordeals. The settings include remote deserts, mountains, jungle and ocean. A biographical and historical note prefaces each compelling tale. 2000 | ||||||||
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Slung, Michele B., ed. Living with Cannibals and Other Women's Adventures Culled from the National Geographic's archives, these accounts depict the exploits of 19th and 20th century women explorers as they journey to remote regions of the earth, ocean and sky. 2000 | ||||||||
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Williams, Glyndwr Voyages of Delusion: The Quest for the Northwest Passage Williams, a history professor at the University of London, vividly describes the British, Russian and Spanish sea voyages which sought to discover the Northwest Passage, a supposed water route through North America which would serve as a shortcut from Europe to East Asia. The expeditions failed, of course, to find this passage, but they succeeded in accurately charting thousands of miles of coastline. 2003 |
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