Facing Fear is the inspiring true story of Lisa Blair who sailed into the history books on 25 July 2017 by becoming the first woman to sail solo around Antarctica.

In the summer of 1998-1999, Eric Philips, Jon Muir and Peter Hillary set out to complete the 3000 kilometer return journey from Ross Island to the South Pole. Their journey was meticulously planned with high-tech sleds, kites and satellite phones. The journey was conducted in a blaze of publicity, with regular calls live to the Holmes show and an Internet site.

The book grew out of the highly successful science symposium held in Hobart in 1997 as part of Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) Jubilee celebrations.

With virtually no prior experience they turned their attention to one of the largest islands in the world - Victoria Island in the Canadian Arctic - and vowed to cross it on foot.

Michael Smith spent 20 years restoring Melbourne’s beloved Sun Theatre and becoming one of Australia’s last independent cinema operators. He then set off on a rather different journey: to become the first person to fly solo around the world in an amphibious plane.

An inspiring adventure story from Young Australian of the Year 2011, Jessica Watson. Alex feels like a fish out of water in her new hometown - the sleepy little lakeside village of Boreen Point where she is reluctantly sent to live with her slightly eccentric aunt for her final year of high school. None of Alex's classmates could care less about the new girl, so Alex couldn't care less about them . . . or so she tries to tell herself.

This book is the memoir of the first Australian woman to Winter over at the Geographical South Pole where she was employed as an astronomer. The book reflects on the excitement and anxieties of the preparations to travel to the pole, the challenges and ordeals she experienced along the way.

Before the six major continents were separated by vast seas, there existed the landmass of Gondwana (now Australia, South America, Antarctica, India, Africa, and New Zealand). This book presents the history of the vertebrate faunas of Gondwana, beginning with the origin of life, even before Gondwana coalesced, and moving through time as the continent shifted, along with its vertebrate life.

Dinosaurs of Darkness opens a doorway to a fascinating former world, between 100 million and 120 million years ago, when Australia was far south of its present location and joined to Antarctica. Dinosaurs lived in this polar region.

Melody is a confident, adventurous young mermaid, the daughter of the king and queen of the Kingdom of Pearl. While her seven mersisters all have golden curls, Melody's long hair is a beautiful shade of green.

By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in the history books, wealthy American Lincoln Ellsworth announced he would fly across the unexplored continent. And to honour his hero, Wyatt Earp, he would carry his gun belt on the flight. The main obstacles to Ellsworth’s ambition were numerous: he didn’t like the cold, he avoided physical work, and he couldn’t navigate. Consequently, he hired the experienced Australian explorer, Sir Hubert Wilkins, to organize the expedition on his behalf.

Imagine a three-week-long first date in Siberia catching venomous water shrews, and later a wedding attended by Eastern European prime ministers and their bodyguards wielding machine guns. Then a life spent living and working with snakes. Lots of very, very poisonous snakes and other venomous creatures ... everything from the Malaysian king cobra to deadly scorpions.

Documentary photographer and anthropologist Alegra Ally travelled to the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia from October through December 2016 to study and document the Nenet way of life.

A new edition to mark the centenary Ernest Shackleton's epic 1916 journey across 1300 kms of hostile ocean in a tiny, leaking boat and unmapped ice and snow to reach a rescue station by British-Australian explorer Tim Jarvis, who recreated 'Shackleton's Epic' in 2012

FIRST ACROSS THE ROOF OF THE WORLD is the story of a incredible journey. In the days of jet travel and packaged tours, Peter Hillary and Graeme Dingle choose to travel the hardest way - on foot and carrying their supplies - through the toughest terrain in the world: the Himalayas. They climbed and tramped for 5,000 kilometres.

Earth's fossil records date back more than three–and-a-half billion years ago, providing extraordinary documentation of the evolution of life on this planet. From primitive one-celled organisms to the complex plants and animals of today, fossils have enabled paleontologists and other scientists to study the patterns, processes, and changes that have led to the incredible diversity of organic life. Fossils also reveal much about Earth's early climates, geochemistry, and environment.

Here is a book on climate written for people from all walks of life, not just science boffins. The reader is invited to enter the climate debate, likened to a twisting maze or hall of mirrors, with dead-ends, illusions, traps - that are the lies, misinformation, over-simplifications and false prophecies on both sides.

Marine biologist Micheline Jenner discovered humpback breeding grounds off the Kimberley coast, has swum through orange golfball-sized pygmy blue whale poo to uncover a feeding spot, and is one of very few people to witness a humpback whale giving birth.

A Compendium of Nudibranchs is a 190 page colour plate collection of the author’s images of nudibranchs and related molluscs from Australia and Indonesia. Individual species are identified with their scientific (binomial) names.

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