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Polar Regions

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  • Antarctic Accountsby Roald Amundsen; Ernest Shackleton

    InfoStrategist.com 2004; US$ 5.99

    Narratives 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 Passageby Brian Payton

    Doubleday Canada 2009; US$ 19.95

    A 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 Scienceby Roger D. Launius; James Rodger Fleming; David H. DeVorkin

    Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 33.00

    The 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 Windby Alastair Vere Nicoll; Bear Grylls

    I.B.Tauris 2010; US$ 25.00

    Adrift 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 Worldby Apsley Cherry-Garrard

    Random House 2011; US$ 13.34

    The 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 Freezeby Dian Olson Belanger

    University Press of Colorado 2011; US$ 21.95

    In 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 Epicby Tim Jarvis

    HarperCollins 2013; US$ 27.99

    Shackleton's Epic by Tim Jarvis has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. more...

  • Life in the Coldby Peter J. Marchand

    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 Scottby David M. Wilson

    Little, Brown and Company 2012; US$ 16.99

    The 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 Hby Katherine Lambert

    Random House 2012; US$ 22.66

    On 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...