This brilliant first-person account, originally published in 1897, marks the beginning of the modern age of exploration, vividly describing Nansen's dangerous voyage and his 15-month-long dash to the North Pole by sled. ...

First published in 1931, this is the legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of the HMS "Endurance." 20 illustrations. ...

Russell wrote this book partially to refute The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie, which he claimed contained many inaccuracies. ...

Quotes from the Journals, photos and notes on each day Lewis & Clark were in Montana.
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Quotes from the Journals, photos and notes on each day Lewis & Clark were in Montana.
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The journal of possibly the first white man to cross continental North America. Published 12 years before Thomas Jefferson sent Louis and Clark on a similar journey. ...

The story of 24-year-old Cherry-Garrard's experience on Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to the South Pole in 1910. ...

In 1914, Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton set sail aboard his ship Endurance, leading twenty-eight men in an audacious attempt to cross the antarctic continent. The story of their survival, against all odds, remains one of the most gripping and inspiring dramas of the twentieth century.<P>This volume charts the achievements of Shackleton and his contemporaries, Amundsen, Scott, Wilson, and others, as they attempted the exploration of ...

Contents: great depression; tale of a coincidences; testimony of Sir John Dorinecourte, Knt.; what Baines knew; Professor Lessaution's opinion; we sail south; a light in the darkness; before the gale; leaping of the wall; behind the barrier; glacier cave and what lay therein; great clay god; closed door; in the ninth circle; the mountain wakes; temple and the lair of clay; little dog's stumble; desperate betrothal; a wondrous breaching of the ...

After crossing the Bitterroot Range and canoeing down the cataract-filled Snake River, the Corps of Discovery finally reached the long-sought Columbia River in the autumn of 1805. Volume III continues the cartographic reconstruction of the explorers' trek as they set out from the Snake-Columbia junction, October 18, 1805, on the final leg of their journey to the sea. In addition to intricately mapping the Columbia's great rapids, desert and ...