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The harrowing story of the ill-fated Endurance, now in paperback. In August 1914, Ernest Shackleton and 27 men sailed from England in an attempt to become the first team of explorers to cross Antarctica from one side to the other. Five months later and still 100 miles from land, their ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice. The expedition survived another five months camping on ice floes, followed by a perilous journey through stormy seas to remote and unvisited Elephant Island. In a dramatic climax to this amazing survival story, Shackleton and five others navigated 800 miles of treacherous open ocean in a 20-foot boat to fetch a rescue ship. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World vividly re-creates one of the most extraordinary adventure stories in history. Jennifer Armstrong narrates this unbelievable story with vigor, an eye for detail, and an appreciation of the marvelous leadership of Shackleton, who brought home every one of his men alive.

A magnificent treasury with full-color illustrations on nearly every page tells the story of America through one hundred true tales of triumph, tragedy, and everything in between, from the Mayflower and Wright brothers' flight to the Watergate break-in and Salem witch trials.

The sun and the moon shine down on a young boy as he spends a day by the sea. "Sun shines on the mountains, sun shines on the sea. Sun shines on my pillow, and says wake up to me."

With big, bold illustrations and large type, children will delight in this easy-to-read book about a giant snowball tumbling down a hill, picking up everything and everybody in its path. Simultaneous.

A lyrical novel about a day in the life of a young pioneer girl growing up on the Dakota prairie is now available in a Knopf Paperback edition. This widely praised and beautifully crafted tale deftly evokes the vast expanse of the American West, the hardships faced by pioneer families, and the strong bonds of family and community.

Aftermath of the Rhodesian war. This memoir sympathetically looks at the driftwood of a father's belatedly communicated experience, post-migratory reality of the daughter. It explores the psychological after-effects of war and the issues of gender after the hyper-masculine culture of Rhodesia began to deteriorate.

Irreverant poems on history, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, nationalist psychology and the past.

Like Tom, the hyena could be seen, soon lapping up the traces of the morning's spoils, ingesting the sweet carrion through its lulling glands, along the track it follows. Tom absorbed the air of the explorers -- Sucked it down, ingested it. Until he was but a fractured remnant of the Western world -- Still part Africa, not yet civil, holy. He had no real home, not any more, yet he followed a dream, that will of an apparition; dream of a man with a raised and pointed spear. "That other life is not for you , Tom. " "Here you might breathe..." the warm alcohol releases fears and dreams. " ...If you must breathe at all" ...

The Rhodesian war situation produced certain schizoid states.

The continent has been divided in two for nearly a century; one side a snow covered world of magic, rules, and dictatorship, the other a warm, adventure filled place of wonder. This is at least how Ezivan Lentaris, the daughter of the dictating sorcerer, sees it. In search of adventure she runs from her father to the other side of the continent, taking up a new identity, making new friends, and indeed, finding more adventure that many would see in a lifetime. However, breaking away from her father's tight grip and the control of her past is a little harder then she may have originally suspected.