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Books by Lennard Bickel






Shackleton's Forgotten Men(1st Edition)
The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic (Adrenaline Classics (Paperback))
by Lennard Bickel, 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
The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
by Lennard Bickel, Sir Edmund Hillary, Edmund Hillary
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2000 by Steerforth
ISBN-13: 978-1-58642-000-0, ISBN: 1-58642-000-3

"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 Lennard Bickel
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 ..."






The Last Antarctic Heroes
by Lennard Bickel, Lord Shackleton
Paperback, 230 Pages, Published 1989 by Allen & Unwin
Import
ISBN-13: 978-0-04-920108-8, ISBN: 0-04-920108-5






Rise up to Life
A Biography of Howard Walter Florey Who Made Penicillin and Gave It to the World
by Lennard Bickel
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 Lennard Bickel
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."






Florey, the man who made penicillin
(Sun papermac)
by Lennard Bickel
Paperback, 314 Pages, Published 1983 by Sun Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-7251-0405-4, ISBN: 0-7251-0405-8






This Accursed Land
by Lennard Bickel
Paperback, 210 Pages, Published 1978 by Sun
ISBN-13: 978-0-7251-0302-6, ISBN: 0-7251-0302-7






Mawson's Will
by Lennard Bickel
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 Lennard Bickel, 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 ..."






This Accursed Land
The Greatest Story Of Lone Survival In Polar Exploration
by Lennard Bickel, Bickel Leonard, Edmund . Hillary
Paperback, 210 Pages, Published 1977 by Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-0-333-22939-2, ISBN: 0-333-22939-8






The Southern Universe
by Lennard Bickel
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 1975 by Macmillan
ISBN-13: 978-0-333-17578-1, ISBN: 0-333-17578-6






Facing starvation; Norman Borlaug and the fight against hunger(1st Edition)
by Lennard Bickel
Hardcover, 376 Pages, Published 1974 by Reader's Digest Press; Distributed By Dutton, New York
ISBN-13: 978-0-88349-015-0, ISBN: 0-88349-015-3

"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 Lennard Bickel
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 Lennard Bickel
Softcover, Published by Canelo History
ISBN-13: 978-1-80032-549-4, ISBN: 1-80032-549-5






Florey
The Man Who Made Penicillin
by Lennard Bickel
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 Lennard Bickel
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 Lennard Bickel
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 Lennard Bickel
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)
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by Lennard Bickel
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."



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