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Farthest North (Modern Library Exploration)
Fridjtof Nansen
Modern Library
Modern Library
The Incredible Expedition to the Frozen Latitudes of the North These are the diaries of Nansen's lunatic three-year long expedition to the North Pole, which made him the John Krakauer of his age. In 1893 Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North...
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Alaska's Kenai Peninsula Wildlife Viewing Trail Guide
Doug O'Harra, Katherine Hocker, Kristan Hutchison, Riley Woodford
Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Alaska Department of Fish and Game
The Kenai Peninsula Wildlife Viewing Trail features 65 carefully selected wildlife viewing sites that highlight the diversity of animals and habitats found on the Kenai Peninsula. Visit all of the sites and you will have explored the Kenai...
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Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen: Ambition and Tragedy in the Antarctic
David Thomson
Basic Books
Basic Books
Between the middle of January and the end of March 1912 five men died in the attempt to return from the South Pole to their base on the edge of Antarctica. Their leader, the last to die and the man whose diary described their agonies was Robert...
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A Complete Guide to Arctic Wildlife
Firefly Books
Firefly Books
The most comprehensive field guide to Arctic wildlife. This is the ideal guidebook to the wildlife of the Arctic, which is undergoing such a perilous change. Polar expert Richard Sale describes the ecological and human dynamics of the...
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The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule
Joanna Kavenna
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
A legend, a land once seen and then lost forever, Thule was a place beyond the edge of the maps, a mystery for thousands of years. And to the Nazis, Thule was an icy Eden, birthplace of Nordic “purity.” In this exquisitely written narrative, Joanna...
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Journals: Scott's Last Expedition (Oxford World's Classics)
Robert Falcon Scott
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
In January 1912, Britain's Captain Robert F. Scott reached the South Pole, only to find he had been beaten by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition. Scott and his companions faced an 850-mile march to safety. All perished on the return. A few months...
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Antarctica: The Blue Continent
Lynn Woodworth, David Mcgonacal
Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
This is the story of Antarctica, the last great wilderness on earth. Isolated by ice, wind and the wild seas of the Southern Ocean, it is the world's most pristine environment, a region of spectacular natural beauty that is home, despite extreme...
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Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World
David Roberts
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
While reading Valerian Albanov's In the Land of White Death, David Roberts came across the mention of an old legend of four shipwrecked Russian sailors who had managed to survive six years stranded on a barren island in the high Arctic....
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The Arctic: The Complete Story
Frances Lincoln
Frances Lincoln
The Arctic has recently become the subject of attention from both politicians concerned about the effects of climate change and tourists interested in its icy beauty. Richard Sale, one of the world's leading Arctic scholars and a professional...
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