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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.)
by Laurence Bergreen
Powells.com Staff Pick
Laurence Bergreen brings Magellan's groundbreaking circumnavigation of the globe to life in this excellent, highly readable history. Through exhaustive research, including many first person accounts previously unavailable in English, Bergreen weaves... ( read more)
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South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage
by Ernest H Shackleton
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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
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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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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
by Tony Horwitz
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In a highly entertaining adventure, Tony Horwitz rides the
wake of Captain James Cook, recreating the history of his pioneering
voyages, the stories of his island landings, and the lasting impact
his contact had on the indigenous populations... ( read more)
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North to the Night: A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic
by Alvah Simon
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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)
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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 Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party
by Kelly Tyler-Lewis
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The harrowing tale of the Ross Sea party, the other side of Shackleton's Endurance expedition.
In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to make history by crossing the Antarctic continent. Shackleton's story is legend, but few... ( read more)
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South
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)
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Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer
by Bill Gifford
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For decades after his death in 1789, John Ledyard was celebrated as the greatest explorer America had ever produced. A veteran of Captain Cook's final voyage, he walked across nearly all of Russia and suggested to his friend Thomas Jefferson that... ( read more)
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Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
by Barry Lopez
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"Barry Lopez won the 1986 National Book Award for Arctic Dreams. A more accurate test, though, for the true quality of a book is how well it wears over time. And though it may yet be too soon to conclude, Arctic Dreams appears to have taken its place as... ( read more)
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ADA Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
by Jennifer Niven
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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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Points Unknown: A Century of Great Exploration
by David Roberts
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This collection of adventure writing ranges from Robert Falcon Scott's final journal entry to Jon Krakauer's reckless solo climb of the Devil's Thumb to Tom Wolfe's brilliant portrayal of Chuck Yeager shattering the sound barrier in "The Right Stuff". A... ( read more)
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Over the Edge of the World Magellans
by Laurence Bergreen
Powells.com Staff Pick
A superb story that throws light on Magellan’s audacious circumnavigation of the globe, Over the Edge of the World is a fascinating lesson in history that delivers as much adventure and appeal as Dava Sobel’s Longitude, and Nathaniel... ( read more)
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South : the Last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and the Endurance (98 Edition)
by Ernest Shackleton
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"Literally the epic of the ice, ("South") is the narration, in rich detail . . . of Shackleton's final Antarctic journey, 1914-1917".--"Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger". 70 photos & line drawings.... ( read more)
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Rowing to Latitude
by Jill Fredston
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Two by sea: A couple rows the wild coasts of the far north Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband, Doug Fesler, in a small boat of his own, she... ( read more)
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Ice Bound
by Jerri Nielsen
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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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As Told at the Explorers Club: More Than Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure
by George Plimpton
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Tales of exploration from the worlds most exclusive... ( read more)
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Escape from the Antarctic
by Ernest Shackleton
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This beautifully packaged volume captures, in the words of veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, his excruciating and inspiring expedition to Antarctica aboard the "Endurance."... ( 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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Endurance : an Epic of Polar Adventure (99 Edition)
by Frank Arthur Worsley
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First published in 1931, this is the legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of the HMS "Endurance." 20 illustrations.... ( read more)
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