Antarctica

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  • Cover scan of Antarctic Eyewitness
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    Antarctic Eyewitness - Paperback
    This volume offers accounts of two 19th-century expeditions to the Antarctic. The first is Sir Douglas Mawson's 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition. The other is Ernest Shackleton's attempt to cross the Antarctic in 1914-16 and the survival of his entire party after their ship sank.
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    South By Northwest: The Magnetic Crusade And The Contest For Antarctica - G. A. Mawer - Hardback
    The race for the South Magnetic Pole was a marathon rather than a sprint and its starting point was suitably distant from Antarctica, in the ice of the fabled Northwest Passage. This is an account of ambition and adventure, centred around the competing claims to the last continent.
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    South: The Story Of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917 - Sir Ernest Shackleton - Paperback
    This is Ernest Shackleton's gripping account of the doomed Endurance voyage. Setting out on the eve of the First World War, he wanted to be the first to cross the last unknown continent but the exploration was plagued with problems.
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    W. S. Bruce: Scottish Nationalist And Polar Explorer - P. Speak - Paperback
    W.S. Bruce was one of the foremost polar scientists of the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration, yet remains largely unknown. This biography is written to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-04.