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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Since Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to the South Pole in 1910-1912, controversy has raged about the correct interpretation of and explanation for the tragedy. Some writers have drawn a picture of Scott as a bumbling incompetent, whose lack of experience and preparation condemned his men to their deaths. Aspley Cherry-Garrard's account The Worst Journey in the World...
Author
Series
Lost volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
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Chronicles Ernest Shackleton's expedition to the Antarctic aboard the ship Endurance, detailing the harsh conditions the crew endured on the frozen continent.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
English
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A visually stunning journey to the end of the world with the hardy and devoted people who live there year-round. The research stations scattered throughout the continent host a close-knit international population of scientists, technicians and craftsmen. Isolated from the rest of the world, enduring months of unending darkness followed by periods when the sun never sets, Antarctic residents experience firsthand the beauty and brutality of the most...
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English
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"In the summer of 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set off aboard the Endurance bound for the South Atlantic. The goal of his expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland, but more than a year later, and still half a continent away from the intended base, the Endurance was trapped in ice and eventually was crushed. For five months Shackleton and his crew survived on drifting ice packs in one of the most savage regions of the world before they were finally...
5) Ice reich
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
375 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
103 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a boy he preferred reading sea stories to doing homework and, at age 16, became an apprentice seaman. Subsequently, Ernest Shackleton's incredible journeys to the South Pole in the early 1900s made him one of the most famous explorers of modern times. His courage in the face of dangerous conditions and unforeseeable tragedies reveal the great leader that he was. His historic 1914 journey aboard the Endurance has all the drama of an action movie"--...
10) The winter pony
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
246 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
An account--from the point of view of a pony--of what it was like to be part of Captain Robert Scott's 1910 expedition to reach the South Pole before rival Roald Amundsen.
Author
Publisher
Oneworld
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
xi, 443 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An extraordinary character and one of history?s great explorers, Ernest Shackleton pioneered the path to the South Pole over 100 years ago, becoming the dominant figure in Antarctic discovery. His incredible adventures on four expeditions to the Antarctic have captivated generations. Drawing on extensive research of original diaries, letters, and many other publications, Michael Smith brings a fresh perspective to the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Curriculum Pub
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the shipwreck of the Endurance in a sea of ice en route to Antarctica, and the survival of all 28 members of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by Sir Ernest Shackleton.
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
138 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
47 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Joe, Fred, and Sam travel back in time to join Robert Scott's expedition to Antarctica and help him find the eggs of an emperor penguin.
19) 47 below
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (51 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles Australian physican and adventurer Geoff Wilson's 2013-2014 solo coast-to-coast trek across Antarctica, inspired by a friend's fight with breast cancer.
20) South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917 : the photographs of Frank Hurley
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Books
Pub. Date
2004, c2001
Physical Desc
320 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.), map ; 30 x 32 cm.
Language
English
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