When a little penguin receives a blank book in the mail he is eager to fill it up with exciting things, but while he is seeking adventure he misses the action right before his eyes.

When Osbert the penguin shows up on his doorstep with several friends along with an invitation to Aurora Australis' party at the South Pole, the boy decides to transport them there in the helicopter he received this year for Christmas.

This eleven part series presents a tour of the entire planet Earth, including the poles, mountains, waters, caves, deserts, plains and jungles. Using high-definition photography and revolutionary ultra-high speed cameras, this series captures rare action, impossible locations and intimate moments with our planet's best-loved and most elusive creatures.

An account--from the point of view of a pony--of what it was like to be part of Captain Robert Scott's 1910 expedition to reach the South Pole before rival Roald Amundsen.

An introduction to the geography, climate, and inhabitants of the polar regions at the top and bottom of the earth where the North Pole and the South Pole are located.

Molly, Emmett, and Molly's mother compete in a high-profile race to become the first people to reach the South Pole, where Emmett's father, explorer and ship captain Wendell Lee, disappeared years ago.

A powerfully built man more than six feet tall, Amundsen's career of adventure began at the age of fifteen (he was born in Norway in 1872 to a family of merchant sea captains and rich ship owners). Twenty-five years later he was the first man to reach both the North and South Poles. The author, an adventurer and swimmer, author of Swimming to Antarctica, gives us in this new work a full-scale account of Amundsen's life and expeditions. We see Amundsen,...

Hoping to have an adventure to impress her grandcows, Emmadine Cow joins Admiral Richard E. Byrd on his 1933 expedition to the South Pole.

Recounts the efforts of Scott, a British explorer, and Amundsen, a Norwegian, to be the first to reach the South Pole.