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South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage
by Ernest H Shackleton
Publisher Comments
Based upon Shackletons diaries and writings , South gives the reader an insight into the appalling condi tions that the author and his party endured when the Enduran ce lay trapped in sea ice and they were forced to march 600 miles across unstable sea... ( read more)
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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)
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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
by Caroline Alexander
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In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing... ( read more)
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The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
by Jennifer Niven
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Based on the diaries of those who were rescued and those who perished, this is the chilling true story of the "Karluk's" doomed 1913 exploration of the Arctic and the heroic efforts of the ship's captain, the Ice Master, who traveled by foot through... ( read more)
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The Island Within
by Richard Nelson
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Here is Nelson's luminously wise account of his exploration of an unnamed island in the Pacific Northwest. This book revises our own relationship with nature, allowing us to observe it and also to participate in it with reverence and a sense of wonder.... ( read more)
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ADA Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
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)
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In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic (Modern Library Exploration)
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)
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Ice Bound
by Jerri Nielsen
Publisher Comments
Jerri Nielsen was a forty-six-year-old doctor working in Ohio when she made the decision to take a year's sabbatical at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on Antarctica, the most remote and perilous place on Earth. The "Polies," as the inhabitants are... ( read more)
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Antarctica
by Jim Mastro
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From the aurora australis to Bird Island, a photojournalist takes readers on his journey to the harsh, desolate, yet beautiful place that is Antarctica. 120 color photos.... ( read more)
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Fifty years below zero :a lifetime of adventure in the Far North
by Charles D Brower
Publisher Comments
Fifty Years Below Zero is an engrossing account by Charles Brower, the "King of the Arctic," of his life in the north. Brower shares his knowledge of whaling, pioneering, and Alaska Native life and customs before statehood, chronicling a period of... ( read more)
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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
by Jennifer Niven
Publisher Comments
From the author of "The Ice Master" comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate uninhabited Arctic island in 1921.... ( read more)
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Waiting to Fly: My Escapades with the Penguins of Antarctica
by Ron Naveen
Publisher Comments
A tour de force of nature writing, Ron Naveen's Waiting to Fly captures the spirit of the gentle and charming creatures called penguins while also beautifully rendering the frozen, windswept landscapes through his magical prose.In Waiting to Fly, Naveen... ( read more)
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Shackleton
by Roland Huntford
Publisher Comments
The acclaimed biographer of Robert Falcon Scott masterfully chronicles the life of one of the last great Edwardian heroes, Ernest Shackleton, from his Anglo-Irish childhood through the race for the South Pole to his last expedition to the North Pole.... ( read more)
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Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy
by David Crane
Publisher Comments
With full access to all family papers and to the voluminous diaries and records of key participants in the Antarctic expeditions, this richly illuminating biography of Robert Falcon Scott is an absolutely convincing portrait of a complicated hero.... ( read more)
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Denisons Ice Road
by Edith Iglauer
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"The reader, if he or she doesn't watch out, will succumb to (Iglauer's) affection for Canada's 'true north'- a disease that people up there call Arctic Fever, and say is incurable." -"New York Times"... ( read more)
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The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic
by Elizabeth Kolbert
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Published to commemorate the International Polar Year, this literary anthology features first-person narratives, cultural histories, nature and science writing, and fiction from such legendary polar explorers and writers as Jon Krakauer, Jack London... ( read more)
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The Heart of the Antarctic: The Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909
by Ernest Henry Shackleton
Publisher Comments
This is the story of Shackleton's first polar expedition in solo charge, 1907-9. It is an account of his never-ending quest to reach the South Pole. Within ninety-seven miles of his goal, appalling weather forces him to abandon this expedition in a... ( read more)
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Fury Beach
by Ray Edinger
Publisher Comments
In his four-year arctic adventure, sea captain and scientist John Ross discovered the magnetic North Pole, the life of the Inuit people-and the wisdom that comes only from pushing the boundaries of human courage. In his biography, Ray Edinger "looks... ( read more)
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The Peoples of the Great North: Arts and Civilization of Siberia (Temporis)
by Valentina Gorbatcheva
Publisher Comments
There are a great many northern peoples: Eskimos, Samoyedes, Yakuts, Kuryaks, etc. And they all have one thing in common: the far north with its vast snowy wastelands, a wilderness of whiteness where the petrifying cold penetrates to the marrow of man's... ( read more)
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Used - Hardcover
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