Lost in the Antarctic: The Doomed Voyage of the Endurance (Lost #4)

2019-01-01
Lost in the Antarctic: The Doomed Voyage of the Endurance (Lost #4)

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  • Author: Tod Olson
  • Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
  • ISBN: 1338207350
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 183

Climb aboard the doomed ship Endurance to join famed explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew who must battle the frigid Antarctic elements to survive being stranded at the edge of the world. 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 ship to death. The ship's name seemed ironic now: the Endurance. But she had lasted nine months in this condition, stuck on the ice in the frigid Antarctic winter. So had Shackleton and his crew of 28 men, trying to become the first expedition ever to cross the entire continent.Now, in October 1915, as he watched his ship break into pieces, Shackleton gave up on that goal. He ordered his men to abandon ship. From here on, their new goal would be to focus on only one thing: survival.Filled with incredible photographs that survived the doomed voyage of the Endurance, Lost in the Antarctic retells one of the greatest adventure and exploration stories of all time.

Lost in the Antarctic

2019
Lost in the Antarctic

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  • Author: Tod Olson
  • Publisher: Scholastic Press
  • ISBN: 9781549087684
  • Category : Antarctica
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 209

Chronicles Ernest Shackleton's expedition to the Antarctic aboard the ship Endurance, detailing the harsh conditions the crew endured on the frozen continent.

Lost in the Antarctic

2019
Lost in the Antarctic

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  • Author: Tod Olson
  • Publisher: Scholastic Press
  • ISBN: 9781338207347
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Chronicles Ernest Shackleton's expedition to the Antarctic aboard the ship Endurance, detailing the harsh conditions the crew endured on the frozen continent.

Shackleton

2014-06-17
Shackleton

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  • Author: Nick Bertozzi
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • ISBN: 1596434511
  • Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 129

A graphic recounting of explorer Ernest Shackleton's ambitious journey to Antarctica dramatically illuminates the unprecedented expedition that cost many of his companions their lives. By the best-selling illustrator of Houdini: The Handcuff King. Original.

Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink (Lost #1)

2016-10-25
Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink (Lost #1)

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  • Author: Tod Olson
  • Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
  • ISBN: 0545928125
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 136

LOST IN THE PACIFIC is the first book in a new narrative nonfiction series that tells the true story of a band of World War II soldiers who became stranded at sea and had to fight for survival. World War II, October 21, 1942. A B-17 bomber drones high over the Pacific Ocean, sending a desperate SOS into the air. The crew is carrying America's greatest living war hero on a secret mission deep into the battle zone. But the plane is lost, burning through its final gallons of fuel.At 1:30 p.m., there is only one choice left: an emergency landing at sea. If the crew survives the impact, they will be left stranded without food or water hundreds of miles from civilization. Eight men. Three inflatable rafts. Sixty-eight million square miles of ocean. What will it take to make it back alive?

Lost in Outer Space

2017-01-31
Lost in Outer Space

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  • Author: Tod Olson
  • Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
  • ISBN: 0545928176
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 189

For middle grade space enthusiasts, the amazing true story of the doomed Apollo 13 moon mission that nearly ended in disaster. April 13, 1970: Two hundred thousand miles from Earth and counting, an explosion rips through Jim Lovell’s spacecraft. The crippled ship hurtles toward the moon at three times the speed of sound, losing power and leaking oxygen into space. Lovell and his crew were two days from the dream of a lifetime—walking on the surface of moon. Now, they will count themselves lucky to set foot on Earth again. From “Houston, we’ve had a problem” to the final tense moments at Mission Control, Lost in Outer Space takes readers on the unbelievable journey of Apollo 13 and inside the minds of its famous and heroic astronauts. Complete with photographs of the crew and diagrams of the spacecraft, this is an up-close-and-personal look at one of the most thrilling survival stories of all time. “Fans of action-packed true survival stories will take to this real-life space episode—an easy pick for upper elementary schoolers.” —School Library Journal

Into the Clouds: The Race to Climb the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain (Scholastic Focus)

2020-04-21
Into the Clouds: The Race to Climb the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain (Scholastic Focus)

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  • Author: Tod Olson
  • Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
  • ISBN: 1338207377
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 215

A nail-biting tale of survival and brotherhood atop one of the world's most dangerous mountains. This fast-paced, three-part narrative takes readers on three expeditions over 15 years to K2, one of the deadliest mountains on Earth. Roped together, these teams of men face perilously high altitudes and battering storms in hopes of reaching the summit. As each expedition sets out, they carve new paths along icy slopes and unforgiving rock, creating camps on ledges so narrow they fear turning over in their sleep. But disaster strikes -- in 1939, four men never make it down the mountain. Fourteen years later, a man develops blood clots in his legs at 25,000 feet, leaving his team with no safe path off the mountain. Filled with displays of incredible strength and heart-stopping danger, Into the Clouds tells the incredible stories of the men whose quest to conquer a mountain became a battle to survive the descent.

Polar Explorers for Kids

2003-11-01
Polar Explorers for Kids

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  • Author: Maxine Snowden
  • Publisher: Chicago Review Press
  • ISBN: 1613742630
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 160

Heroism and horror abound in these true stories of 16 great explorers who journeyed to the Arctic and Antarctic regions, two exquisite and unique ice wildernesses. Recounted are the exciting North Pole adventures of Erik the Red in 982 and the elusive searches for the &“Northwest Passage&” and &“Farthest North&” of Henry Hudson, Fridtjof Nansen, Fredrick Cook, and Robert Peary. Coverage of the South Pole begins with Captain Cook in 1772; continues through the era of land grabbing and the race to reach the Pole with James Clark Ross, Roald Amundsen, Robert Scott, and Ernest Shackleton; and ends with an examination of the scientists at work there today. Astounding photographs and journal entries, sidebars on the Inuit and polar animals, and engaging activities bring the harrowing expeditions to life. Activities include making a Viking compass, building a model igloo, making a cross staff to measure latitude, creating a barometer, making pemmican, and writing a newspaper like William Parry's &“Winter Chronicle.&” The North and South Poles become exciting routes to learning about science, geography, and history.

Lost in the Amazon

2018-01-30
Lost in the Amazon

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  • Author: Tod Olson
  • Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
  • ISBN: 054592829X
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 155

In this true story written for young readers, a teen is the only survivor of a plane crash and must stay alive in the South American jungle until rescue. Peru, Christmas Eve, 1970. It was supposed to be a routine flight, carrying eighty-six passengers across the Andes Mountains and home for the holiday. But high above the Amazon rainforest, a roiling storm engulfs the plane. Lightning strikes. A deafening whoosh sweeps through the cabin. And suddenly, seventeen-year-old Juliane Koepcke is alone. The plane has vanished. She is strapped to her seat and plunging 3,500 feet to the forest floor. On Christmas Day, she wakes. She is injured, covered in mud, but strangely—miraculously—alive. And now, in a remote corner of the largest rainforest on Earth, the real battle for survival begins.

Endurance

2014-04-29
Endurance

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  • Author: Alfred Lansing
  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • ISBN: 0465058795
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 412

Experience one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age in this New York Times bestseller: the harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. With an introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick, Endurance is the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip. Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the gripping and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age.