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by jfk13 2275 days ago
Don't overlook "Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage" (Alfred Lansing).

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139069.Endurance

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Or “Alone on the Ice” which takes many accounts of Mawson’s trip. These adventures are the most incredible stories I’ve ever read and, with some expedition experience myself, I sometimes just shudder thinking about how difficult it must’ve been.
If you like that kind of thing I can recommend "Barrow's Boys: The Original Extreme Adventurers: A Stirring Story of Daring Fortitude and Outright Lunacy" by Fergus Fleming - it largely covers 19th century expeditions UK to try and find the Northwest Passage and to rescue previous expeditions.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/878082.Barrow_s_Boys