Polar Adventures

A powerfully built man more than six feet tall, Amundsen’s career of adventure began at the age of fifteen (he was born in Norway in 1872 to a family of merchant sea captains and rich ship owners); twenty-five years later he was the first man to reach both the North and South Poles. Lynne Cox, adventurer and swimmer, author of Swimming to Antarctica (“gripping”—Sports Illustrated) and Grayson (“wondrous, and unforgettable”—Carl Hiaasen), gives us in South with the Sun a full-scale account of the explorer’s life and expeditions.

It's icicle city when the Magic Tree House carries Jack and Annie to the frozen Arctic. Luckily, a seal hunter on a dogsled lends them warm clothes. Unluckily, they get stuck on cracking ice. Will the giant polar bear save them? Or will Jack and Annie become frozen dinners?

Imagine a young doctor, trained in the latest medical knowledge and state-of-the-art equipment, suddenly transported back to one of the world’s most isolated and unforgiving environments - Nome, Alaska. That’s what happen to Dr. Sims. His plans to become a pediatric surgeon were drastically changed when, on the eve of being drafted into the army to serve as a MASH surgeon in Vietnam, he was offered a commission in the US Public Health for assignment in Anchorage, Alaska, where he was scheduled to act as chief of pediatrics at the Alaska Native Medical Center.

Delafeuille, éditeur parisien, débarque à Copenhague pour y rencontrer le maître du polar nordique, au moment même où la police locale est confrontée à un redoutable serial killer : l'Esquimau. Mais à peine installé à l'hôtel avec le dernier roman de l'auteur, il découvre que c'est sa propre histoire que raconte le livre... et que pour lui les choses ne vont pas tarder à mal tourner.

"You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. "What the ice gets," replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's unflappable leader, "the ice keeps." It did not, however, get the ship's twenty-five crew members, all of whom survived an eight-hundred-mile voyage across sea, land, and ice to South Georgia, the nearest inhabited island.

Une partie de canasta se révèle truquée et une fille en or finit par y mourir. Il semble qu'Auric Goldfinger soit un mauvais perdant quand il s'agit de cartes. C'est aussi le trafiquant d'or le plus impitoyable et le plus prospère du monde. En suivant sa trace, James Bond découvre que le vrai jeu de Goldfinger est le vol de quinze milliards de dollars de lingots du gouvernement américain. La dernière main est jouée à Fort Knox, dans une démonstration spectaculaire de tromperie et d'intrigue.

Lorsque des urgences soudaines se présentent, James Bond est là pour y faire face. Qu'il s'agisse de l'assassinat d'un voyou cubain en Amérique, de la destruction d'un réseau international d'héroïne ou d'une mort mystérieuse aux Seychelles, 007 accomplit son travail dans un style qui lui est propre.

Ernst Stavro Blofeld, chef de l'organisation terroriste SPECTRE, a détourné un avion américain chargé d'armes atomiques. Si ses exigences ne sont pas satisfaites, il détruira l'une des principales villes du monde. Ne disposant que d'une semaine pour retrouver les bombes manquantes, Bond se rend aux Bahamas où il rencontre le bras droit de Blofeld, Emilio Largo, et sa maîtresse Domino. Alors que le temps presse, Bond apprend que les requins ne sont pas les seuls tueurs de la mer des Caraïbes.

Flora's a die-hard dreamer. She's never left the farm, but she knows she was born for adventure. She's determined to become a sled pig! A harrowing voyage to Antarctica, a bacon-loving cook, and a shipwreck in deadly conditions stand between Flora and her dream. What will happen to Flora, whose companions see her as more of a meal than an adventurer?

April Wood has returned home from her adventure on Bear Island. But even though it's been a whole year, she can’t stop thinking about Bear. When April hears that a polar bear has been shot and injured in Svalbard, she’s convinced it’s her friend and persuades her dad to travel with her to the northernmost reaches of the Arctic. So begins an unforgettable journey across frozen tundra and icy glaciers.

When archaeologist Annja Creed reluctantly agrees to help an old colleague on a dig in Antarctica, she wonders what he's gotten her into. It turns out that her former associate has found a necklace made of an unknown metal depicting three snakes. He claims it's over 40,000 years old — and that it may not have earthly origins. As the pair conduct their research, Annja soon realizes she has more to worry about than being caught in snow slides.

Two teens join an epic battle to save a distant world and its dragon prince. Whitney and Edward are ordinary teenagers, but their lives are about to take an extraordinary turn. As they approach their 13th and 14th birthdays, a mysterious force beckons to them, awakening a sense of wonder and curiosity within. Little do they know, they possess incredible powers that are entwined with the fate of a hidden world they never knew existed.

Did you know that over 12% of the world's population suffers from mental illness like depression? That number is also on the rise as more people tackle the ever-increasing daily demands of modern life. At times, when dealing with these feelings, it can feel like you are living with a constant cloud over your head and have no one to talk to about what you're going through. But that is not the case. This book can help you gain back control over your emotions and thoughts and help lead you toward a happier and healthier everyday life.

Here is the story of the infamous 1910 race to the South Pole, as told by its fearless yet desperate leader, Robert Falcon Scott. The New York Times called Scott's Last Expedition "A splendid record of heroism not soon to be forgotten."

Antarctica, the ice kingdom hosting the South Pole, looms large in the human imagination. The secrets of this vast frozen desert have long tempted explorers, but its brutal climate and glacial shores notoriously resist human intrusion. Land of Wondrous Cold tells a gripping story of the pioneering 19th-century voyages, when British, French, and American commanders raced to penetrate Antarctica’s glacial rim for unknown lands beyond. These intrepid Victorian explorers laid the foundation for our current understanding of Terra Australis Incognita.

George Murray Levick was the physician on Robert Falcon Scott's tragic Antarctic expedition of 1910. Marooned for an Antarctic winter, Levick passed the time by becoming the first man to study penguins up close. His findings were so shocking to Victorian morals that they were quickly suppressed and seemingly lost to history.

M pense avoir une affaire facile pour 007. C'est exactement ce dont il a besoin après sa dernière rencontre presque fatale avec SMERSH. Cependant, en arrivant en Jamaïque pour rechercher un agent disparu et sa secrétaire, Bond apprend que le Dr Julius No, un homme reclus, pourrait être lié à leur disparition. Lorsque Bond et l'exotique Honeychile Rider sont emprisonnés sur l'île privée du Dr No, ils se rendent compte que ses plans pourraient menacer la sécurité à l'échelle internationale.

An inspired tale of high adventure, Out in the Cold is Bill Murray's vivid portrait of his travel across the vast Northern Atlantic from the Arctic north of Norway to Nova Scotia. Murray begins in pursuit of a total solar eclipse in Svalbard, 800 miles from the North Pole. He tests the culinary appeal of wind-dried sheep in the tiny Faroe Islands, befriends Inuit bone carvers in Greenland, and camps with an itinerant Italian musician who dreams of building Greenland's first luxury resort.

In Lions at Lunchtime, the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie to the vast plains of Africa. Before Jack can find out where the lions are, Annie starts to help hundreds of wildebeasts cross a rushing river. Next, they follow a honey of a bird and meet an awesome Masai warrior. Jack hopes any lions will just stay away. Jack is about to be very disappointed.

When an Antarctic research expedition goes wrong, the consequences are far-reaching—for the men involved and for their families back home. Robert 'Doc' Wright, a veteran of Antarctic field work, holds the clues to what happened, but he is no longer able to communicate them. While Anna, his wife, navigates the sharp contours of her new life as a carer, Robert is forced to learn a whole new way to be in the world.