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Antarctic Peninsula & Tierra del Fuego - 100 years of Swedish-Argentine scientific cooperation at the end of the world
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 119.95This book includes a selection of the most significant contributions presented at the international symposium held in Argentina in March 2003. The meeting commemorated the Nordenskjölds expedition, Swedish-Argentine early scientific fieldwor more...
Life on the Ice
Allen & Unwin 2002; US$ 27.22An intimate view of life on ice: stories of people, places and procedures in the Great White South. more...
Encyclopedia of the Antarctic
Routledge 2006; US$ 425.00The Antarctic is unique, geographically, politically, and scientifically. Antarctica is the only major part of the Earth's landmass not directly governed by one nation, but under the control of a Treaty. This work offers information on a variety of factors, issues, and individuals influencing and relating to the Antarctic. more...
In the Wake of the Jomon
McGraw-Hill 2005; US$ 24.95The thrilling account of an extraordinary journey. in the tradition of Kon-Tiki. In 1996 a 9,500-year-old skeleton was found beside the Columbia River, galvanizing anthropologists with the possibility that prehistoric humans reached North America from Asia by crossing the ocean in small open boats. In this compelling narrative, world-class kayaker... more...
Mountains of Madness
Allen & Unwin 2000; US$ 22.68A riveting account of a modern scientific expedition to the Antarctic. more...
Just Tell Them I Survived
Allen & Unwin 2001; US$ 22.68This collection of interviews celebrates women's participation in national and private expeditions to Antarctica. Based on 130 interviews the book ranges across the first women scientists to visit Macquarie Island in 1959, to contemporary 'winterers'. Given the extent to which men have traditionally marked out the territory, physically,... more...
David Harvey
Wiley 2008; US$ 92.95This book critically interrogates the work of David Harvey, one of the world's most influential geographers, and one of its best known Marxists. Considers the entire range of Harvey's oeuvre, from the nature of urbanism to environmental issues. Written by contributors from across the human sciences, operating with a range of critical theories. Focuses... more...
Alpha - Gamma
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 252.00This encyclopaedia, compiled around 530 AD,is more or less the Byzantine Encyclopaedia Britannica of the ancient world. It lists some 3,600 names of places, mountains, lakes, rivers, waters and peoples, explaining their origins and derivations. The founding legends and wealth of cultural historical information contained in it make it a source text... more...
Scott of the Antarctic
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 16.95Historian David Crane, with full access to the explorer?s papers, diaries, and expedition records, gives us an illuminating portrait of Robert Falcon Scott that is more nuanced and balanced than any we have had before. In reassessing Scott?s life, Crane is able to provide a fresh perspective on not only the Discovery expedition of 1901?4 and the... more...
Journals
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 8.99Captain Scott's own account of his tragic race with Roald Amundsen for the South Pole thrilled the world in 1913. This new edition of his Journals publishes for the first time a complete list of the changes made to Scott's original text before publication. - ;'For God's sake look after our people'. Captain Scott's harrowing... more...









