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Polar Regions

  • The Place Where You Go to Listenby John Luther Adams; Alex Ross

    Wesleyan University Press 2010; US$ 19.99

    A personal journey into the music of the Arctic more...

  • In the Land of White Deathby Valerian Albanov

    Random House Publishing Group 2001; US$ 16.00

    In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prove even more disastrous. In search of new Arctic hunting grounds, Albanov's ship, the Saint Anna, was frozen fast in the pack ice of the treacherous Kara... more...

  • The Enduranceby Caroline Alexander

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 35.00

    In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. Weaving a treacherous path through the freezing Weddell Sea,... more...

  • The South Poleby Captain Roald Amundsen; Roland Huntford

    Cooper Square Press 2000; US$ 28.99

    The first explorer to reach the South Pole recounts the rigors of his expedition. more...

  • The South Poleby Roald Amundsen

    InfoStrategist.com 2004; US$ 4.99

    World-renowned polar explorer Captain Roald Amundsen?s (1872-1928) conversational, candid, and engrossing account of his Norwegian expedition?s successful race, first aboard the Fram and then by dogsled, to be the first to reach the South Pole. more...

  • 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...

  • Hooshby Jason C. Anthony

    UNP - Nebraska Paperback 2012; US$ 26.95

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  • Arctic Voicesby Subhankar Banerjee

    Seven Stories Press 2012; US$ 35.95

    A pristine environment of ecological richness and biodiversity. Home to generations of indigenous people for thousands of years. The location of vast quantities of oil, natural gas and coal. Largely uninhabited and long at the margins of global affairs, in the last decade Arctic Alaska has quickly become the most contested land in recent US history. ... more...

  • James Fitzjamesby William Battersby

    Dundurn 2010; US$ 35.00

    A lively man with a wicked sense of humour, James Fitzjames joined the Franklin Expedition at the age of 32. While he never returned, he left behind a legacy of misinformation, half-truths, and adventures that the author wades through to create a great portrait of this brave Royal Navy hero. 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...