What really goes on in Antarctica?

The definitive collection of Frank Hurley's amazing photos from Shackleton's Antarctic expedition is the first book to reproduce all the surviving expedition photos, some of which have never been published. Over 450 photos.

William Grimes, New York Times This is science writing at its best: clear, witty, relevant, unbelievably interesting, and just plain great. Mary Roach Walker has a Ph.D. in chemistry, but she writes like a poet.

What readers are saying about Icebound: 'The thrilling chain of events that follows, in the race to disarm all the explosives, is positively gripping' 'The plot unfurls with a frozen precision that grips you with its icy fingers, always ...

"In Northern Mists" is one of the best-known works by a Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen.

Winner of the National Book Award This bestselling, groundbreaking exploration of the Far North is a classic of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing.

Account of the activities of the first explorer known to have landed in Antarctica, Carsten E. Borchgrevink, and of the first over-wintering in 1899.

In The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica America s foremost expert on wildfire turns to the land without fire, a continent reduced to a single mineral -- ice. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

"The Worst Journey in the World" recounts Robert Falcon Scotts ill-fated expedition to the South Pole.

The author recounts his adventures traveling through Turkey in search of the history of the fez, using it as a key to understanding the country's history and culture.