Shackleton's Endurance. An Antarctic Survival Story, Paperback - Joanna Grochowicz

Ernest Shackleton's remarkable story is a terrifying adventure with the happiest of endings - another brilliant narrative non-fiction Antarctic adv...

If you're into happy endings, best look someplace else. This story does not end well. This is a story where men die and their dreams of greatness w...

Reducere. In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for th...

Meanwhile a smaller group - the Ross Sea party, led by the impetuous one-eyed captain Aeneas Mackintosh and the hard-headed Ernest Joyce - went bef...

Reducere. A group of sled dogs race to survive a perilous journey across Antarctica in the exhilarating second installment of Survival Tails, perfect for fan...

The true story of the men who made Shackleton's most famous expedition possible and paid the highest price for it.

Reducere. DescriptionA group of sled dogs race to survive a perilous journey across Antarctica in the exhilarating second installment of Survival Tails, perf...

Reconstruction of the final voyage of Endurance, taken from Ernest Shackleton and his companions' diaries and also interviews with the survivors fo...

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What would you do to be the first? The gripping tale of the great Norwegian explorer's courage, determination and ruthlessness in the race to the S...

Reducere. Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, the expedition ship, th...

Reducere. Lead your business to survival and success by following the example of legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton Sir Ernest Shackleton has been called -...

Reducere. Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic, Paperback

• Kate Greenaway Medal (2015) • New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book (2014) • Wall Street Journal Best Children's Book (2014) Pe 8 augus...

Celebrates the centenary of one of the most exciting expeditions of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration. This title presents photographs, paint...

Reducere. The story of Truman Everts survival for 37 days in Yellowstone is an astonishing tale of one man's struggle against the wilderness.What started out...

There wasn't a thing Ernest Shackleton could do. He stood on the ice-bound Weddell Sea, watching the giant blocks of frozen saltwater squeeze his s...

Reducere. Two decades after the terrorist attacks on 9/11, America still is reeling from lingering trauma. Award-winning journalist Bill Tammeus was among th...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Ranulph FiennesNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 198 x 33Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. This fascinating and informative survival guide introduces readers to the challenging environments of the arctic and antarctic. Useful tips tell yo...

Reducere. With a colorful cast of unexpectedly gentle German guards, helpful Red Army soldiers and generous American GIs, as well as avaricious looters and s...

Reducere. DescriptionJohan Otter's life changed in a fraction of a second the day he and his daughter Jenna were attacked by a grizzly bear while hiking in G...

Reducere. In the midst of the California Gold Rush, twelve-year-old Sarah and her family are living in the North as free Black people. Seeking a better life,...

Reducere. Years of bad weather and natural disasters have choked Italy's food supply, and the people of Florence are dying of starvation. Breadlines are batt...

DescriptionHailed as "a rousing read" by The New York Times, this breathtaking chronicle of Antarctic exploration was written by expedition leader ...

Reducere. Leah dreams of leaving behind the crowded streets of Boston's North End neighborhood to journey west. It's the only way she'll have the future she ...

Publisher: Steerforth PressAuthor(s): Ejnar MikkelsenIllustration(s): 8 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

Reducere. Life in lower Manhattan is normal for Molly, her dads, and younger sister. But on September 11, 2001, everything changes. Molly and her younger sis...

Publisher: Capstone Global Library LtdAuthor(s): Julie GilbertNumber of pages: 112Collection: Girls SurvivePublication date: 2021Dimensions: 133 x ...

An anthology of the best writing on endurance, survival, adventure and exploration.Publisher: Head of ZeusAuthor(s): Levison WoodNumber of pages: 8...

Reducere. DescriptionThirteen-year-old Noelle feels like the luckiest girl in the world to be cruising the Atlantic aboard the famed Titanic. The trip is mad...

Reducere. When her mother announces a holiday vacation to Thailand, Tara isn't thrilled. She'd rather stay home with her friends, but Mom is determined they ...

Reducere. In 1918, fourteen-year-old Daisy's family has fallen on hard times. Her sister Elsie's fiance was recently deployed to fight in World War I, and he...

Reducere. Lily is a twelve-year-old Chinese American girl living in San Francisco's Chinatown when an earthquake destroys her home and sets her neighborhood ...

Publisher: Capstone Global Library LtdAuthor(s): Jessika FleckNumber of pages: 112Collection: Girls SurvivePublication date: 2021Dimensions: 133 x ...

Publisher: Capstone Global Library LtdAuthor(s): Natasha Bacchus-BuschkielNumber of pages: 112Collection: Girls SurvivePublication date: 2021Dimens...

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Reducere. Twelve-year-old Mary and her Cherokee family are forced out of their home in Georgia by U.S. soldiers in May 1838. From the beginning of the forced...

Reducere. London schoolgirl Hettie hears the whispers and sees the worry creeping across her parents' faces. She watches as the windows in her home are black...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE, was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. His first exp...

Reducere. On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared. Only one crew member survived: a young lieute...

The Greatest Expedition Rescue in HistoryExperience one of the most unexpected survival stories in modern history. Read the first-hand account of S...

In her heartbreaking, triumphant, and elegantly written memoir, Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat tells the heart-pounding story of her life as a yo...