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The Ambitions of Jane Franklin
Allen & Unwin 2013; US$ 22.72A genius at publicity before the term existed, Jane Franklin was a celebrity in the mid-19th century. This is her remarkable life, including her extensive travels, her years in Tasmania as the governor's wife, and her very public battle to save husban more...
American Empire
University of California Press 2003; US$ 39.95An American Empire, constructed over the last century, long ago overtook European colonialism, and it has been widely assumed that the new globalism it espoused took us "beyond geography." Neil Smith debunks that assumption, offering an incisive argument that American globalism had a distinct geography and was pieced together as part of a powerful... more...
The Arctic Fox
Dundurn 2004; US$ 14.99The Shackleton of his day, Leopold McClintock (1819-1907) from County Louth was the leading Arctic explorer of the Victorian era. He undertook four major voyages, epic sledge journeys, and was the first to bring definite information on the lost Franklin party. more...
Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscape
LSU Press 2009; US$ 35.00Perhaps one of the most distinctive and studied geographers of the twentieth century, Carl O. Sauer (1889?1975) had influence that extends well beyond the confines of any one discipline. With a focus on historical and cultural geography, Sauer?s essays have garnered praise from poets, natural historians, and social scientists alike who continue to... more...
Coming Home to China
University of Minnesota Press 2007; US$ 55.50In 2005, distinguished geographer Yi-Fu Tuan ventured to China to speak at an architectural conference, returning for the first time to the place he had left as a child sixty-four years before. In this enchanting volume, Tuans childhood memories and musings on the places he encountered during his homecoming are interspersed with new lectures, engaging... more...
Complex Locations
Wiley 2009; US$ 94.95This enlightening book makes visible the lives and works of women who played a critical role in the development of geography as an academic field. A rare and detailed analysis of the geographical work of 30 individual women geographers from 1850 to 1970 Includes oral histories from women who have held appointments in British universities since World... more...
Dangerous Passage
Dundurn 2006; US$ 11.99The story of the opening up of the Northwest Passage and the ensuing potential risks to the Arctic environment and Canadian sovereignty are explored. more...
Exotic Lands and Dodgy Places
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Ptd Ltd 2010; US$ 12.80Distant Lands and Dodgy Places chronicles the adventures of intrepid traveller Tan Wee Cheng ? from witnessing an Eskimo seal hunt in icy Greenland to meeting Chinese stranded in Paraguay and The Amazon, and arriving in chaotic Comoros just as a volcanic eruption threatens to blow the capital apart. Hot on the heels of his runaway success Hot Spots... more...
Farthest North
Random House Publishing Group 2000; US$ 27.00In 1893 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 North Pole than anyone had ever gone before. Experts said such a ship couldn't be built and that the voyage was tantamount to suicide. This brilliant first-person... more...
The Franklin Conspiracy
Dundurn 2001; US$ 22.99In 1845, two British Royal Navy ships entered the Canadian Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage. Neither ship returned. more...









