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Coming Home from Sea: Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Napier, Priscilla

Poetry

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The Rackheath Aggies: A Tribute to the 467th Heavy Bombardment Group American Eighth Air Force

Kibble-White, David H.

Six crashes later: the story of a fighter pilot

History

STEVENSON, Derek Leyland

Europe

Eat to Beat Fatigue: Ideas for Low Energy Cooking

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Jane Harries

Special Diet

Taffy's War: The Story of Prisoner No. 259175

Herbert Grimwood

Biographies & Memoirs

Once the pole had been conquered by Amundsen and Scott the next great journey was the crossing of the Antarctic continent, first attempted by Filchner in 1912 and then by Shackleton in 1914. As part of the International Geographical Year the Trans-Antarctic Expedition was set up with Vivian Fuchs in charge. He would start from a base on the Weddell Sea and after reaching the Pole, continue to the Ross Sea using supply depots laid by a New Zealand team working from McMurdo and led by the conqueror of Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary. In January 1956 an advance party of eight men was left at Shackleton base to build accommodation, explore and lay depots to ease the passage of Fuchs s team the following year. This account, based on the diary of the young medical officer, shows how close to disaster they came and how lucky they were to survive. Fuchs later admitted that 'apart from Scott s marooned Northern Party theirs was the most severe ordeal in the history of Antarctic exploration.'

Eight Men in a Crate

Anthea Arnold

Travel

The Boudica Within

Elaine Sassoon

Medical Books

Living with Heroes

Harry Humphries

165 letters and telegrams relating to Shackleton's 1907 expedition aboard the Nimrod, showing the inner workings and emotions of an heroic man with far-reaching dreams, and

The Shackleton Letters: Behind the Scenes of the "Nimrod Expedition

Regina W. Daly

Travel Writing

On 30 July 1907, members of the British Antarctic Expedition, led by Ernest Shackleton, sailed down the Thames on the tiny, refurbished sealer Nimrod. Some six months later, in February 1908, the expedition landed in Antarctica. At Cape Royds Shackleton and his companions built a hut and set up camp. They then began their long wait for the following spring, when Shackleton would head into the icy unknown in an attempt to become the first man ever to reach the South Pole. In the worldwide fame and glory that followed the return of Shackleton s party to civilisation, little was ever said about a dark incident that almost halted the expedition before it ever sailed from London s East India Docks. On the eve of departure of the Nimrod to the Antarctic the body of the assistant biologist was found in the East India Docks. Without a doubt he had been murdered. Raymond Priestly, just short of his 21st birthday, had been appointed expedition geologist and was one of the first on the scene and it fell to him to undertake an investigation, along with Inspector William Taylor, an old school friend of Shackleton s, into the events surrounding this dark deed. He had no knowledge of the danger into which he would soon be plunged.

The Nimrod Murders

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

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