Inspiring stories of the small teams that shaped our world and built our future.
And others who excelled in art, design, music, pop culture, comedy, movies, and so much more.
Grab a warm blanket. This book puts you right into the action of the life-and-death decisions made by early Antarctic explorers.
In When Your Life Depends on It you’ll discover:
All set in the most hostile environment on Earth, where split seconds determine who gets out alive.
When others exclaimed, “It can’t be done,” three titans of history proved it could.
Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results profiles the men and their larger-than-life endeavors:
Audacious Goals reveals the outsized risks and setbacks each faced in their quest to change our world.
Why is it that some people wake up energized, raring to go, enthralled with all the challenges ahead?
They encounter obstacles and enjoy overcoming them. And how do you bring this into your own life?
Building on insights from the books of Brad Borkan and David Hirzel, Brad teamed up with author and podcaster Holly Worton to answer these questions.
This book provides an 8-step process showing you how to achieve Dynamic Alignment.
Chanticleer International Book Awards
Wishing Shelf Literary Awards
Voice Arts Awards: Best Audiobook - History category
Book, eBook, and Audiobook categories
Brad Borkan is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the Society of Authors. He has presented at business and Antarctic conferences and appeared on numerous leadership and history podcasts. Brad is a former senior director at leading high tech companies like SAP and Oracle. His expertise is blending his business experience and history knowledge to create compelling stories offering direct lessons for today’s world.
David Hirzel’s passion as a maritime historian and author is best expressed in his books on Arctic and Antarctic exploration history. His Sailor on Ice polar biography series brings the story of the explorer Tom Crean to life. David also created a small, independent publishing company called Terra Nova Press which publishes polar-focused books as well as the Borkan-Hirzel co-authored books featured on this website. When not writing or publishing, he can be found designing residential architecture from his home office “Sky Ranch” overlooking the sea in Pacifica, California.
