South: The Endurance Expedition: Popular Penguins

Ernest Shackleton

Sir Ernest Shackleton's South is one of the greatest survival stories of all time. In 1914, Shackleton led a party of men hoping to be the first to traverse the Antarctic, but when their ship became crushed by ice 350 miles from land, the expedition soon became a matter of life and death. This is the ex...

My Own Story (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)

Emmeline Pankhurst

Soldier, criminal, militant, hooligan, revolutionary: labels Emmeline Pankhurst wore proudly in her long struggle for women's suffrage. This shortened edition of her autobiography tells of the tireless campaigning, the betrayals by men in power, the relentless arrests and hunger strikes, the horror of f...