Experience “one of the best adventure books ever written” (Wall Street Journal) 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,...

A timeline and recipe both enhance this fact-filled overview of the state.

In the future, mankind has at last made its giant leap beyond the bonds of Earth. Under the supervision of the world space patrol, the galaxy and all its wonders are finally being explored by a fleet of spaceships unlike anything we have had before. Under the command of the rugged colonel steve zodiac, the fleet's flagship fireball xl5 investigates the deepest corners of galactic sector 25 in search of faraway planets, alien life and adventure.

Starship crew members in mirror universes. Life-entity transfers and future-erasing. Jumping backwards in time and "good" and "evil" captains. They're all here - and more - in the most unusual Star Trek collection ever assembled.

A narrative chronicle of NASA's deep-space mission to Jupiter's ocean moon, Europa, discusses the remarkable work of scientists who overcame formidable hurdles in their effort to determine if organic life exists elsewhere in the solar system.

The first season in this series is an odyssey that unfolds a decade before the era of Star Trek, the Original Series.

"A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in twenty-four hours. A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots a day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space-not toward the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its...

As one of the last "natural" beings born into a genetically engineered world, Vincent Freeman has none of the 'pre-ordered' DNA that will guarantee him success. Desperate to realize his dream of exploring space, Vincent assumes the identity of a genetically superior athlete. Avoiding detection using the athlete's genetic markers, Vincent becomes a rising star at Gattaca Aerospace, attracting the attention of a beautiful co-worker. When a flight director...

A brand new classic picture book in an exciting new format featuring the global sensations, The Octonauts by Meomi. With lots of surprises and fun - this is the ultimate book for Octonauts-crazy children!