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Language
English
Description
"Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England in August 1914. In January 1915, after battling its way for six weeks through a thousand miles of pack ice and now only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed. But...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Follows the British adventurer Robert Swan and two other explorers on an exciting and dangerous 900-mile trek to the South Pole, following in the footsteps of Swan's chidhood hero, Robert Falcon Scott, who made the journey exactly seventy-four years earlier.
9) Ice wreck
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Relates how twenty-seven men and sixty-nine sled dogs aboard the Endurance struggled to survive when the ship became stuck in the ice during an expedition to Antarctica in 1914.
Author
Series
Survival tails volume Bk. 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A group of sled dogs must race to survive during a perilous journey across Antarctica"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Molly, Emmett, and Molly's mother compete in a high-profile race to become the first people to reach the South Pole, where Emmett's father, explorer and ship captain Wendell Lee, disappeared years ago.
14) Antarctica
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"You may have heard that Antarctica is covered in ice, but did you know it's a desert? In fact, it gets so little precipitation that scientists believe the ice sheet has taken more than 45 million years to form. And you may be surprised to learn that mountains, volcanoes, and lakes that can't freeze are hidden within this frozen continent. Despite the harsh conditions, some animals thrive here! Discover extreme facts about Antarctica in this fun and...
15) Blood and ice
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this haunting thriller, journalist Michael Wilde is sent by his editor on an assignment to Antarctica. There, while Michael works at the South Pole, two frozen bodies are lifted from the ocean floor. However, these bodies - a nurse of Florence Nightingale and a member of the Light Brigade - carry a curse in their blood, one which causes them to rise from the dead.
Author
Publisher
School Specialty Pub
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
An account, in graphic format, of the competition between explorers to reach the South Pole, with emphasis on the events of the rival expeditions led by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen and the British Robert Scott between 1910 and 1913.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Once again the mysterious box takes the golden retriever Ranger back in time, and he finds himself on Robert Falcon Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, headed for Antarctica, where his mission is to save Jack Nin, a Chinese-Maori stowaway from New Zealand, from the blizzards, unstable ice, and the other hazards that lie ahead for the doomed expedition.
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Ernest Shackleton was young, he longed for a life of adventure. After a career in the Merchant Navy, he joined a landmark expedition to try to reach the South Pole for the first time in history. Although he had to go home early, he never gave up. His own expeditions set new records for the closest anyone had ever been to the South Pole, and he is remembered now as a courageous and inspirational leader.