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by Alfred Lansing  
From Powells.com Days before the outbreak of World War One renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail to attempt the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. More than eighty miles from their destination, however, their... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Jennifer Niven
Publisher Comments Now in paperback, the gripping and inspiring tale of a woman's survival alone in the Arctic. In 1921, four men and one woman ventured deep into the Arctic. Two years later, only one returned. When 23-year-old Inuit Ada Blackjack signed on as a... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Alfred Lansing Publisher Comments In 1914, an expedition headed by Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to be the first to cross the continent of Antarctica. Shipwrecked and marooned for months on end, their ill-fated voyage became a triumphant story of indomitable courage and faith in the face... (read more) Your Price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Apsley Cherry-garrard Publisher Comments "The Worst Journey in the World" recounts Robert Falcon Scotts ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrardthe youngest member of Scotts team and one of three men to make and survive the notorious Winter Journeydraws on his firsthand... (read more) Your Price $18.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Valerian Albanov Publisher Comments Including a new Epilogue, this is "one helluva read" ("Newsweek") and a chilling first-person account of extreme survival in the Siberian Arctic, rediscovered by Jon Krakauer and David Roberts. "Vivid . . . (a work of) terrifying beauty."--"The Boston... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Apsley Cherry-Garrard Publisher Comments Cherry-Garrard, who accompanied Robert Falcon Scott to the Antarctic on the explorer's doomed quest for the South Pole, recounts the unforgettable journey across forbidding, inhospitable terrain. He was also a member of the search party that ultimately... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Jonathan Clements Publisher Comments Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their Scandinavian homeland to trade and raid along the coasts of Europe. Their influence extended from Newfoundland to Baghdad, their battles were as far-flung as Africa and the Arctic... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Fergus Fleming Publisher Comments Fleming relates the epic story of the men who stopped at nothing to unravel the mysteries of the North Pole. In the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole ran rampant. Was it an open sea? Was it a portal to new worlds within the globe? Or was... (read more) Your Price $4.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Ernest Shackleton Publisher Comments Comparable to "Into Thin Air" and "Alive, " this first-hand account of the expedition which is the subject of the "New York Times" bestseller "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Arctic Expedition" is written by the leader of the fateful expedition... (read more) Your Price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by George W. Melville Publisher Comments IN THE LENA DELTA A NARRATIVE OF THE SEARCH FOR LIEUT.-COMMANDER D E LONG AND HIS COMPANIONS FOLLOWED BY AN ACCOUNT OF THE GREELY RELIEF EXPEDITION A PROPOSED METHOD OF REACHING THE NORTH POLE BY GEORGE W. MELVILLE CHIEF ENGINEER U. S. N. EDITED BY... (read more) Your Price $42.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by T. R. Glover Synopsis If one thing more than another marks modern thought, it is a new insistence on fact. In every sphere of study there is a growing emphasis on verification. Where a generation ago a case seemed to be closed, today in the light of new facts it is reopened.... (read more) Your Price $16.25 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Susan Solomon Publisher Comments These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale." So penned Captain Robert Falcon Scott in 1912 as he confronted defeat and death in the crippling subzero temperatures of Antarctica. In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the interrupted... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by William H. Gilder Publisher Comments Sledging in the Arctic in quest of the Franklin Records.... (read more) Your Price $13.50 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Roald Amundsen Publisher Comments The provisions were chosen with the greatest care, and packed with every precaution. All groceries were soldered in tin boxes, and then enclosed in strong wooden cases. The packing of tinned provisions is of enormous importance to a Polar expedition; it... (read more) Your Price $17.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Alvah Simon
Publisher Comments In June 1994 Alvah Simon and his wife, Diana, set off in their 36-foot sailboat to explore the hauntingly beautiful world of icebergs, tundra, and fjords lying high above the Arctic Circle. Four months later, unexpected events would trap Simon alone on... (read more) Your Price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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