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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 
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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) List Price $6.99 Your price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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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
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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) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard K Nelson Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Barry Lopez
Powells.com Staff Pick "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) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jennifer Niven Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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) List Price $20.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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) List Price $13.95 Your price $3.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elizabeth Kolbert Publisher Comments 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) List Price $29.95 Your price $20.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jim Mastro Synopsis 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) List Price $40.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Caroline Alexander Publisher Comments 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) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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) List Price $18.95 Your price $4.18 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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) List Price $30.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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) List Price $26.00 Your price $4.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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