Shackleton's Forgotten Men(1st Edition) The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic (Adrenaline Classics (Paperback)) by LennardBickel, Lord Shackleton Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2001 by Da Capo Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56025-306-8, ISBN: 1-56025-306-1
"Ernest Shackleton, an undeniably brave explorer, labored under a terrible ambition for nearly two decades: the desire to be the first man to reach the South Pole. Repeatedly thwarted by the elements, then finally beaten by the Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen, Shackleton revised his objective in 1912. He would be the first, he decided, to complete "the crossing of the South Polar Continent, from sea to sea." Shackleton plann ..."
"MAWSON'S WILL is the dramatic story of what Sir Edmund Hillary calls "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history." For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced some of the most daunting conditions ever known to man: blistering wind, snow, and cold; loss of his companion, his dogs and supplies, the skin on his hands and the soles of his feet; thirst, starvation, disease, snowblindness - and he survived. Sir Dou ..."
This Accursed Land(Updated) by LennardBickel Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2001 by Gardners Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84158-141-5, ISBN: 1-84158-141-0
"On the same coast, somewhere, were his other men...What had they found? Where were they? His own party was lodged in the chilled breath of this vast polar wilderness where he wrote: 'The winds have a force so tterrific as to eclipse anything previously known in the world. We have found the kingdom of blizzards. We have come to an accursed land.' Sir Douglas Mawson's epic and tragic journey across 600 miles of unknown Antarctic wasteland ..."
Rise up to Life A Biography of Howard Walter Florey Who Made Penicillin and Gave It to the World by LennardBickel Hardcover, 314 Pages, Published 1973 by Charles Scribner's Sons ISBN-13: 978-0-684-13429-1, ISBN: 0-684-13429-2
"When Howard Walter Florey took up his Rhodes scholarship at Oxford in 1922, medical practice had not radically altered in two hundred years. Doctors still had no counter to such fearsome diseases as syphilis and meningitis, no answer to pneumonia, septicaemia, diphtheria, or child-bed fever. Yet within two decades of arriving in England from his native Australia, Florey had developed penicillin, which was virtually to wipe out these kil ..."
This accursed land(Updated) by LennardBickel Paperback, 244 Pages, Published 2002 by Macmillan Import ISBN-13: 978-0-7329-1125-6, ISBN: 0-7329-1125-7
"Biographical account of Sir Douglas Mawson (1882-1958), Antarctic explorer."
This Accursed Land by LennardBickel Paperback, 210 Pages, Published 1978 by Sun ISBN-13: 978-0-7251-0302-6, ISBN: 0-7251-0302-7
Mawson's Will by LennardBickel Hardcover, 274 Pages, Published 1998 by Adventure Library ISBN-13: 978-1-885283-18-4, ISBN: 1-885283-18-0
Mawson's Will(2nd Edition) The Greatest Survival Story Ever Written by LennardBickel, Sir Edmund Hillary Hardcover, 253 Pages, Published 1977 by Stein & Day Pub Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-0-8128-2177-2, ISBN: 0-8128-2177-7
"Dust jacket notes: "For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced the most blistering wind, snow, cold ever known to man; loss of his companion, dogs, and supplies; thirst, starvation, disease, snowblindness - and he survived. Mawson's Will is the dramatic story of what Sir Edmund Hillary calls 'the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history.' Sir Douglas Mawson is remembered as the young Australian who would not g ..."
"Agricultural scientist and Nobel Prize winner warns of impending world-wide food crisis, suggesting measures including efforts to control population growth."
Rise up to life(1st Edition) A biography of Howard Walter Florey who gave penicillin to the world; by LennardBickel Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1972 by Angus And Robertson ISBN-13: 978-0-207-95454-2, ISBN: 0-207-95454-2
This Accursed Land An epic solo journey across Antarctica by LennardBickel Softcover, Published by Canelo History ISBN-13: 978-1-80032-549-4, ISBN: 1-80032-549-5
Florey The Man Who Made Penicillin by LennardBickel 311 Pages, Published 2015 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4482-1497-6, ISBN: 1-4482-1497-1
"Itwas infact1935 before Florey couldwin a grant from his former colleagueat
Sheffield, thistime tosupport hiswork ontheaction of the lymphatic system. By
thenMellanby exertedan influence beyond the limited funds he dispensed and
when the Scandinavian pathologist, Professor George Dreyer, died in Oxford he
threwthe strength of hispersonality behind a move to get Florey into the chair as
the new SirWilliam Dunn Professor of Pathology ..."
Howard Florey by LennardBickel 265 Pages, Published 2015 by Melbourne Univ. Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-522-86500-4, ISBN: 0-522-86500-3
Triumph over Darkness The Life of Louis Braille by LennardBickel 211 Pages, Published 2015 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4482-1485-3, ISBN: 1-4482-1485-8
"Stevie did not have timeto mention his debt to Braille,but itwas there, justasit
always is when French classical pianist Bernard d'Ascoli gives exquisite
performances on the world's concert stages, of works by Chopin, Mendelssohn,
Debussy,Bach or Beethoven. Theseare a few of thelives Louis Braille's work
hastouched. Like countless thousands among today's40million blind beings, they
draw benefit from a triumph over adversity achieve ..."
This Accursed Land(Large Print) by LennardBickel Hardcover, 383 Pages, Published 1991 by Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-7089-2457-0, ISBN: 0-7089-2457-3
Triumph Over Darkness(Large Print) (U) by LennardBickel Hardcover, 324 Pages, Published 1989 by Ulverscroft Large Print ISBN-13: 978-0-7089-2004-6, ISBN: 0-7089-2004-7
"At the age of three Louis Braille accidentally blinded himself. Thirteen years later he created a code of raised dots punched through sheets of paper and fashioned an alphabet that opened the world of learning for the blind."