Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux

$10.00 AUD

Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good

In this title, Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo - the hard way. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, he visits some of the most beautiful and dangerous landscapes on earth. It is a journey of discovery and of rediscovery - of t he unknown and the unexpected - charting places unknown and those known as a young teacher 40 years before. In the Swahili language, the word "safari" simply means "journey", and this - to Theroux - is the ultimate journey. It is a trip where chance encounter is everything, where departure and arrival time are an irrelevance and where contentment can be found balancing on top of a truck in the middle of nowhere. ...Show more

Antarctica - No Single Country, No Single Sea by Creina Bond; Roy Siegfried; Peter Johnson

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Antarctica : An Encyclopedia from Abbott Ice Shelf to Zooplankton by Mary Trewby (ed)

$35.00 AUD

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Arranged alphabetically and extensively cross-referenced, this fact-packed, definitive guide to Antarctica includes over 1,000 entries and 250 photographs covering climate, geology, natural history, exploration, science, tourism and conservation.

Land of the Ice King - An Antarctic Journey by Clive Johnson

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Beyond the Frozen Sea : Visions of Antarctica by Edwin Mickleburgh

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THE ARCTIC YEAR by PETER FREUCHEN AND FINN SALOMONSEN

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A Fabulous Kingdom - The Exploration of the Arctic by Charles Officer; Jake Page

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Inconstant and forbidding, the arctic has lured misguided voyagers into the cold for centuries - pushing them beyond the limits of their knowledge, technology, and endurance. A Fabulous Kingdom charts these quests and the eventual race for the North Pole, chronicling the lives and adventuresthat would e ventually throw light on this "magical realm" of sunless winters. They follow the explorers from the early journeys of Viking Ottar to the daring exploits of Martin Frobisher, Henry Hudson, Frederick Cook, Robert Peary, and Richard Bird.The second edition features a section entitled "The New Arctic" that illuminates current scientific and environmental issues that threaten the region. Officer and Page discuss such topics as the science behind the melting of the polar ice; the endangered species that now depend on the ice, includingpolar bears, narwhals, walruses, and ringed seals; commerce in mining and natural resources, especially petroleum and natural gas; and predictions for the economic and environmental future of the region. Library Journal called the first edition a "winning fusion of adventure, suspense, andhistory." ...Show more

COME NORTH WITH ME by BERNT BALCHEN

$25.00 AUD

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Endurance - Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

$25.00 AUD

Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: The\Adventure Library

The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted conti nent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age. ...Show more

Shackleton's Forgotten Argonauts by Lennard Bickel

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The Ice Beneath My Feet: My Year in Antarctica by Diana Patterson

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Antarctica is windy and achingly cold, incredibly isolated and inhospitable - yet its overwhelming stark white beauty speaks to our imagination. Bright and passionate, Diana Patterson was searching for her path in life when she was bitten by the Antarctic bug in her late twenties. She nursed her secre t ambition and with dogged determination set her sights on becoming station leader at the Australian base Mawson - a lofty aspiration, considering this was most definitely a bloke′s world. Being knocked back four times didn′t deter her - she never gave up her dream, and at the age of 38 became the first woman in charge of this small, mostly male community of glaciologists, physicists, biologists and tradies, in each other′s pockets 24/7, thousands of miles from the comforts of home. The Ice Beneath My Feet is an intimate and riveting account of Diana′s year at Mawson. The day-to-day reality of life in this frozen environment and the adventures of the delightful, vital characters we meet along the way (men, huskies, penguins!) are utterly captivating, and a must-read for anyone who harbours their own Antarctic dream. First published 2010. ...Show more

Kansas Journeys by Mil Penner; Carol Schmidt

$20.00 AUD

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