The National Geographic Society: 100 Years of Adventure and Discovery (Abradale Books)

Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations? And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do they find the resources to survive? The author presents a series of tales from his own experience as well as that of other explorers including Columbus, Cortez, Scott, Shackleton, Stanley, Livingstone.

The golden moments of exploration and adventure - glorious, triumphant, perilous and dramatic.

A concise,authorative and fully illustrated survey of Antartic exploration in the early part of the 20th century,focusing on the race to the South Pole,including the epic expeditions of Scott and Shackleton.

A gripping history of the agonies and feuds, as well as the joys, of the legendary 1911-2 British-Norwegian race to the South Pole

Begins in the Golden Age of exploration with some of the earliest explorers from the Vikings to the early Chinese travellers, the discovery of the Americas by French and Spanish explorers and the eventual circumnavigation of the globe. This book is divided into continents to detail later exploration of countries all over the world.

Captain Scott's own account of his tragic race with Roald Amundsen for the South Pole thrilled the world in 1913. This new edition of his Journals publishes for the first time a complete list of the changes made to Scott's original text before publication.

David Thompson (1770-1857) is considered to have been the important surveyor of North America. Documenting Northwest Company's efforts to find trade routes across Canadian Rocky Mountains, this book reveals Thompson's interest in mapping the great river of the West sought by generations of explorers. It traces fur trade's westernmost expansion.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the modern age of exploration. This dual biography examines and assesses the details of the great race to the South Pole during 1911-1912, between Britain's Robert Scott and Norway's Roald Amundsen. It gives an account of the realities which faced both men.