Ocean Notorious. Journeys to lost and lonely places of the deep south by Matt Vance

$16.00 NZD

Category: Antarctic | Reading Level: very good

For lovers of exciting non-fiction about remote and rarely visited places - and maritime adventures. True first-person stories of the Southern Ocean from NZ to Antarctica - the windiest, roughest, most isolated body of water on earth. Can be compared with: - Simon Winchester's Atlantic - Johnny Wray's S outh Sea Vagabonds - a 2014 NZ bestseller - Joan Druett's Island of the Lost - Bruce Chatwin's classic In Patagonia. Motivated and media-savvy author & perennially popular genre The Southern Ocean is Earth's most notorious body of water. It circles Antarctica, acts as a violent mixer of wind and water, links all other oceans, is feared by sailors and explorers - and is mostly ignored by the rest of the world. Human influence is minimal; the idea of settlement is absurd. There are only widely scattered outposts of people who have come ashore intentionally and temporarily - or have been shipwrecked or abandoned. The author is an intrepid sailor who has guided and spun stories on many southern ocean voyages to Antarctica and subantarctic islands and led the Artists in Antarctica Programme. ...Show more

1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica by Chris Turney

$16.00 NZD

Category: Antarctic | Reading Level: very good

“The South Pole discovered” trumpeted the front page of The Daily Chronicle on March 8, 1912, marking Roald Amundsen’s triumph over the tragic Robert Scott. Yet behind all the headlines there was a much bigger story. Antarctica was awash with expeditions. In 1912, five separate teams representing the ol d and new world were diligently embarking on scientific exploration beyond the edge of the known planet. Their discoveries not only enthralled the world, but changed our understanding of the planet forever. Tales of endurance, self-sacrifice, and technological innovation laid the foundations for modern scientific exploration, and inspired future generations. To celebrate the centenary of this groundbreaking work, 1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica revisits the exploits of these different expeditions. Looking beyond the personalities and drawing on his own polar experience, Chris Turney shows how their discoveries marked the dawn of a new age in our understanding of the natural world. He makes use of original and exclusive unpublished archival material and weaves in the latest scientific findings to show how we might reawaken the public’s passion for discovery and exploration ...Show more

On The Edge: Astonishing True Stories of Exploration, Survival and Endurance by Edited by John Keay

$10.00 NZD

Category: Antarctic | Series: Giant Book Ser. | Reading Level: good

On the Edge's liner notes end with the proclamation "Hail to the Power, Spirit, and Might of Heavy Metal!" Such an unabashedly earnest sentiment could only come from a band like Iron Fire (or Manowar, for that matter), who dutifully adhere to all of the most cherished tenets of '80s metal: sizzling dual guitar cadenzas, plenty of double bass drumming, and songs that address subjects like hell, the prince of darkness, judgment day and, of course, evil. The singer even sounds like Vince Neil. Iron Fire's total lack of innovation or forward thinking is nearly compensated for by the group's spirited and completely unselfconscious allegiance to the stylings of classic metal. And kudos to the band for including a harmonica and Hammond organ on "Wanted Man." ~ Andy Hinds ...Show more

Eliot Porter: Antarctica by Eliot Porter

$35.00 NZD

Category: Antarctic

Antarctic Odyssey - In The Footsteps Of The South Polar Explorers by Graham Collier

$25.00 NZD

Category: Antarctic | Reading Level: very good

Both a journey in the footsteps of others and an account of the author's own experiences with the spectacular wildlife: from Emperor penguins to skuas, which prey on their chicks, to leopard seals and the Orcas. Through his reflections and observations upon the waste of irridescent ice and snow, the boo k captures the spirit of this place, now the only uninhabited continent and the last place on earth to be explored. He recounts the famous stories of the early south polar expeditions, visiting the sites of their triumphs and disasters. Starting from the Magellan Straits, he moves on to South Georgia, Elephant Island, where the refugees from the Endurance sheltered ona strip of beach for months, and Peter 1 Island before venturing into the Weddell Sea from where the expeditions of Shackleton, Scott and Amundsen set forth. ...Show more

Antarctica: The Extraordinary History of Man's Conquest of the frozen Continent by K. Radway Allen et al.

$25.00 NZD

Category: Antarctic | Reading Level: very good

The White Desert: His Personal Story of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition

$15.00 NZD

Category: Antarctic | Reading Level: very good

The Lonely South: Kerguelen and the Antarctic by Andre Migot

$25.00 NZD

Category: Antarctic | Reading Level: very good

The Voyage of the Discovery by R. F. Scott

$40.00 NZD

Category: Antarctic | Reading Level: very good

The Great White South or With Scott in the Antarctic by Herbert G. Ponting

$30.00 NZD

Category: Antarctic | Reading Level: good-very good

The Home of the Blizzard: Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-14 by Douglas Mawson

$16.00 NZD

Category: Antarctic | Reading Level: very good

First published in 1930, this volume provides a detailed account of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition's daily subsistence on the icy continent, its scientific endeavours and Douglas Mawson's sledge journey in 1912-13 during which his companions Ninnis and Mertz both perished.

Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage in the Extreme South by David Crane

$14.00 NZD

Category: Antarctic | Reading Level: very good

This is the definitive biography of Captain Scott - the pivotal figure in pre-First World War Antarctic exploration. Crane's beautifully written and illustrated book re-examines the courage and tragedy of Scott's expedition and reasserts his position in the pantheon of British heroes. David Crane's rema rkable book sets out to discover the real Captain Scott, and rejects the common orthodoxies that surround his name to grapple with the personality behind the legend. In doing so, Crane is able to reach the most moving aspects of Scott's life: the moral courage and basic decency exhibited in a life lived on the crumbling fringes of gentility at the turn of the century. Crane's biography of Scott will rescue a maligned figure and restore him to his proper place in history. By reassessing Scott's life and his huge scientific achievements, Crane is able to provide a fresh and exciting perspective on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The heroism and tragedy of Scott's last journey are only one part of the process, for the scientific enquiry that led up to it transformed the whole nature and ambition of Antarctic exploration. ...Show more