Books similar like The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole

The Worst Journey in the World

The Worst Journey in the World recounts Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, the youngest member of Scott's team and one of three men to make and surviv…

Buy this book on Amazon

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917

In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets out to become the first to traverse the Antarctic continent. Their initial optimism is sho…

Buy this book on Amazon

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age.

In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleto…

Buy this book on Amazon

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

On July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from San Francisco on the USS Jeanette. Heading deep into uncharted Arctic waters, they carried the aspiratio…

Buy this book on Amazon

Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. His destination was the uncharted end of the the…

Buy this book on Amazon

Erebus: The Story of a Ship

In the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.

On the first, she ventured further south than any human had ever been. On the…

Buy this book on Amazon

Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica

It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. For centuries, Antarctica has captured the imagination of our greatest scientists an…

Buy this book on Amazon

Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it.

In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arct…

Buy this book on Amazon

A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole

Buy this book on Amazon

The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party

The untold story of the last odyssey of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Antarctic endeavor is legend, but for sheer heroism and tragic nobility, nothing compares to…

Buy this book on Amazon

Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition

Based on the author's exhaustive research, the incredible true story of the Greely Expedition, one of the most harrowing adventures in the annals of polar exploration.

In July 1881, Lt. A.W. Greely an…

Buy this book on Amazon

Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier

'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory'. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries—the Northwest …

Buy this book on Amazon

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magist…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance

The extraordinary story of how the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's legendary lost ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth, told by the expedition's Director of Exploration.

On November 21, 1914…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage

Buy this book on Amazon

Expeditionen: Min kärlekshistoria

Buy this book on Amazon

The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works

A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it matters. All of Earth’s oceans, from the equator to the poles, are a single engine powered by sunlight…

Buy this book on Amazon

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.

Jam…

Buy this book on Amazon

I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination

Buy this book on Amazon

The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole

Similar books (20)