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Antarctic Accounts
InfoStrategist.com 2004; US$ 5.99Narratives of Antarctic exploration and adventure by two world-renowned polar explorers ? Captain Roald Amundsen?s account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the ?Fram? (1910-1912) and Sir Ernest Shackleton?s account of the British expedition (1914-1917) aboard the Endurance and the Aurora. more...
The Ice Passage
Doubleday Canada 2009; US$ 19.95A thrilling account of suffering and survival, The Ice Passage charts an epic quest from desire to destiny. It begins as a mission of mercy. Four and a half years after the disappearance of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and his two ships, HMS Investigator sets sail in search of them. Instead of rescuing lost comrades, the Investigator... more...
Globalizing Polar Science
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 33.00The International Polar Years and the International Geophysical Year represented a remarkable international collaborative scientific effort that was focused on, but not limited to, understanding the Earth's poles. This groundbreaking collection redresses the surprising failure of historians to explore beyond even a cursory manner the richness of the... more...
Riding the Ice Wind
I.B.Tauris 2010; US$ 25.00Adrift in a life without risk or surprise and with a burning desire to make some sense of his place in the world, Alastair Vere Nicoll dived into the unknown. Leaving the security of friends, work and a wife, he joined a team of young men to harness the katabatic winds and haul and kite-surf across Antarctica: the coldest, windiest, most violent continent... more...
The Worst Journey In The World
Random House 2011; US$ 13.34The Worst Journey in the World is a gripping account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. One of the youngest members of Scott's team, Apsley Cherry-Garrard was later part of the rescue party that found the frozen bodies of Scott and the three men who had accompanied him on the final push to the Pole. Despite the horrors that Scott and his men... more...
Deep Freeze
University Press of Colorado 2011; US$ 21.95In Deep Freeze, Dian Olson Belanger tells the story of the pioneers who built viable communities, made vital scientific discoveries, and established Antarctica as a continent dedicated to peace and the pursuit of science, decades after the first explorers planted flags in the ice. In the tense 1950s, even as the world was locked in the Cold War, U.S.... more...
Shackleton's Epic
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 27.99Shackleton's Epic by Tim Jarvis has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. more...
Life in the Cold
University Press of New England 2014;A revised edition of a classic work on cold climate ecosystems, with a new chapter on climate change more...
The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott
Little, Brown and Company 2012; US$ 16.99The myth of Scott of the Antarctic, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, icon of fortitude and courage who perished with his fellow explorers on their return from the South Pole on March 29 th , 1912, is an enduring one, elevated, dismantled and restored during the turbulence of the succeeding century. Until now, the legend of the doomed Terra Nova... more...
Hell With A Capital H
Random House 2012; US$ 22.66On 29 March 1912, as Scott and his two companions lay dying in their tent, elsewhere on the polar ice-cap six members of his ill-fated expedition were fighting for their lives. This was the so-called Northern Party, hand-picked by Scott to undertake his most significant programme of scientific research. The unsung hero of this group was Dr Murray... more...









