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by Jennifer Niven  Publisher Comments Based on the diaries of those who were rescued and those who perished, this is the chilling true story of the "Karluk's" doomed 1913 exploration of the Arctic and the heroic efforts of the ship's captain, the Ice Master, who traveled by foot through... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Jerri Nielsen 
Publisher Comments Jerri Nielsen was a forty-six-year-old doctor working in Ohio when she made the decision to take a year's sabbatical at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on Antarctica, the most remote and perilous place on Earth. The "Polies," as the inhabitants are... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Ranulph Fiennes Publisher Comments The real story of Captain Robert Scott's legendary Antarctic quest is told by the man whom the Guinness Book of World Records has proclaimed "the world's greatest living explorer," Sir Ranulph Fiennes.... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Caroline Alexander Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your Price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Jennifer Niven
Publisher Comments Now in paperback, the gripping and inspiring tale of a woman's survival alone in the Arctic. In 1921, four men and one woman ventured deep into the Arctic. Two years later, only one returned. When 23-year-old Inuit Ada Blackjack signed on as a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Bill Green Publisher Comments "Nature writing of a very high order . . . a joyride for those who enjoy deep explorations of logic, human frailty and the laws of nature."-San Francisco Chronicle "[Bill Green's] prose rings with the elemental clarity of the ice he knows so well."-PEN... (read more) Your Price $15.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Apsley Cherry-garrard Publisher Comments "The Worst Journey in the World" recounts Robert Falcon Scotts ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrardthe youngest member of Scotts team and one of three men to make and survive the notorious Winter Journeydraws on his firsthand... (read more) Your Price $18.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Valerian Albanov Publisher Comments Including a new Epilogue, this is "one helluva read" ("Newsweek") and a chilling first-person account of extreme survival in the Siberian Arctic, rediscovered by Jon Krakauer and David Roberts. "Vivid . . . (a work of) terrifying beauty."--"The Boston... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Alfred Lansing
From Powells.com Days before the outbreak of World War One renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail to attempt the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. More than eighty miles from their destination, however, their... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roland Huntford
Publisher Comments The definitive account of the contest between Britain's Robert Scott and Norway's Raoul Amundsen for the most coveted prize in the age of modern exploration: Antarctica. "One of the great debunking biographies."--"The New York Times Book Review."... (read more) Your Price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Richard K Nelson Publisher Comments Here is Nelson's luminously wise account of his exploration of an unnamed island in the Pacific Northwest. This book revises our own relationship with nature, allowing us to observe it and also to participate in it with reverence and a sense of wonder.... (read more) Your Price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Martin Sandler Publisher Comments Almost everyone knows the photo of John F. Kennedy, Jr., as a young boy, peering out from under his father’s desk in the Oval Office. But few realize that the desk itself plays a part in one of the world’s most extraordinary mysteries—a... (read more) Your Price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Alfred Lansing From Powells.com Days before the outbreak of World War One renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail to attempt the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. More than eighty miles from their destination, however, their... (read more) Your Price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Ernest H Shackleton Publisher Comments Based upon Shackletons diaries and writings , South gives the reader an insight into the appalling condi tions that the author and his party endured when the Enduran ce lay trapped in sea ice and they were forced to march 600 miles across unstable sea... (read more) Your Price $3.10 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher Comments In 1838, the U.S. government launched the largest discovery voyage the Western world had ever seen — 6 sailing vessels and 346 men bound for the waters of the Pacific Ocean. Four years later, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, or Ex. Ex. as it was known,... (read more) Your Price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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