Polar Regions
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The Greatest Polar Exploration Stories Ever Told
$31.58 Add to cartThe Greatest Polar Exploration Stories Ever Told is a visceral, exciting, and stunning collection of twelve stories recounting the bravery, resoluteness, and strength of the men who willingly traverse
- Series: Greatest
- Author: McCarthy, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493071009
- Language: English
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South: The Endurance Expedition
$22.00 Add to cartAs war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole. But their initial optimism was short-lived as i… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Shackleton, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 27 2004
- ISBN10: 0142437794
- Language: English
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A Woman in the Polar Night
$19.95 Add to cart“An epic story, elegantly told and full of mystery.” — Maggie Shipstead, author of Great Circle
A rediscovered classic memoir – the mesmerizingly beautiful account of one woman’s year spent living in- Series: Pushkin Press Classics
- Author: Ritter, Christiane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1805330896
- Language: English
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The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
$24.99 Add to cartThe Karluk set out in 1913 in search of an undiscovered continent, with the largest scientific staff ever sent into the Arctic. Soon after, winter had begun, they were blown off course by polar storms… [more below]
- Author: Niven, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0786884460
- Language: English
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Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North
$27.00 Add to cartIn 1893, Fridjtof Nansen set sail in the Fram, a ship specially designed and built to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel with the sea’s drift closer to the … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Exploration
- Author: Nansen, Fridtjof
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0375754725
- Language: English
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Life Lessons from Explorers: Learn How to Weather Life’s Storms from History’s Greatest Explorers
$14.95 Read moreGreat explorers are known for their hard-earned skills and meticulously honed character traits which have made their astonishing endeavours possible. Valuable lessons are waiting to be learned from th
- Author: Aston, Felicity
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1787396118
- Language: English
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Shackleton’s Boat Journey
$21.99 Add to cartFrank A. Worsley was the captain of the H.M.S. Endurance, the ship used by the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. On its way to the Antarctic continen
- Author: Worsley, Frank Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0393318648
- Language: English
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The Worst Journey in the World: With Scott in Antarctica 1910-1913
$18.95 Add to cartThe Worst Journey in the World is to travel writing what War and Peace is to the novel . . . a masterpiece.–The New York Review of Books
When people ask me, ‘What is your favorite travel book?’ I near… [more below]- Author: Cherry-Garrard, Apsley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0486477320
- Language: English
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Across Arctic America: Narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition
$26.95 Read moreBetween 1921 and 1924, Knud Rasmussen led a small band of colleagues in a journey of investigation across the top of North America. The full scientific report of that 20,000-mile trek by dog sled from… [more below]
- Series: Classic Reprint Series #06
- Author: Rasmussen, Knud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 415
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0912006943
- Language: English
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South: The Illustrated Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917
$35.00 Add to cartExperience in the polar explorer’s own words, Ernest Shackleton’s thrilling yet ill-fated expedition on the ship Endurance, the wreck of which was discovered off the coast of Antarctica in March 2022.
- Author: Shackleton, Ernest Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0760364826
- Language: English
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The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
$19.00 Add to cartThe spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the most remarkable feat of science and daring of the Jazz Age, The Stowaway is “a thrilling advent… [more below]
- Author: Shapiro, Laurie Gwen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1476753873
- Language: English
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Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World’s Greatest Scientific Expedition
$28.00 Add to cartThe story of the world’s largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told
The immense 18th-century scien- Series: Merloyd Lawrence Book
- Author: Bown, Stephen R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0306825198
- Language: English
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Against the Ice: The Classic Arctic Survival Story
$18.95 Read moreNow a major Netflix film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones)
The harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal account of two mismatched Arctic explorers who banded tog- Author: Mikkelsen, Ejnar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1586423347
- Language: English
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Northern Lights: A History of the Arctic Scots
$32.00 Read moreIn the tradition of Arthur Herman’s How the Scots Invented the Modern World comes a narrative that charts the remarkable–yet often overlooked or misidentified–Scottish contribution to Arctic explora… [more below]
- Author: Cowan, Edward J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1639362703
- Language: English
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The Arctic: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The Arctic is demanding global attention. It is warming, melting, and thawing in a manner that threatens fundamental state-change. For communiti- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Dodds, Klaus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0198819285
- Language: English
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Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
$18.99 Add to cartFloating Coast is the first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada. The unforgiving territories along the Bering Strait had long been home
- Author: Demuth, Bathsheba
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358321
- Language: English
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Chasing Icebergs: How Frozen Freshwater Can Save the Planet
$28.95 Read moreA deeply intelligent and engrossing narrative that will transform our relationship with water and how we view climate change.
The global water crisis is upon us. 1 in 3 people do not have access to s- Author: Birkhold, Matthew H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363432
- Language: English
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Antarctica Cruising Guide: Sixth Edition: Includes Antarctic Peninsula, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Ross Sea
$28.95 Read moreNow packed with even more breathtaking color photographs, wildlife descriptions, and detailed area maps, this updated sixth edition of this bestselling Antarctica travel guide includes fascinating, fu… [more below]
- Author: Franklin, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: November 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1927249880
- Language: English
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Leading at The Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition
$22.99 Add to cartDrawing on the amazing story of Shackleton and his polar exploration team’s survival against all odds, author Dennis N. T. Perkins demonstrates the importance of a strong leader in times of adversity,
- Author: Perkins, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0814431941
- Language: English
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Borealis
$14.95 Add to cartArt about glaciers, queer relationships, political anxiety, and the meaning of Blackness in open space–Borealis is a shapeshifting logbook of Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s experiences moving through the Ala
- Series: Spatial Species
- Author: Sabatini Sloan, Aisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1566896193
- Language: English
