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Arctic and Antarctic


Arctic and Antarctic

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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by Alfred Lansing
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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)

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ADA Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
ADA Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
by Jennifer Niven
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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)

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Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
by Barry Lopez
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Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his masterpiece. Lopez offers a thorough examination of this obscure world-its terrain, its wildlife, its history of Eskimo natives and intrepid explorers... (read more)

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The South Pole: A Historical Reader (National Geographic Adventure Classics)
The South Pole: A Historical Reader (National Geographic Adventure Classics)
by Anthony Brandt
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The race to reach the south pole is one of the most extraordinary stories in human history. In the early 20th century the pole represented one of the last unexplored places on Earth-and thus, for a certain breed of men, one of the most irresistible... (read more)

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Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure
Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure
by Worsley And Shackleton
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You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed? asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. What the ice gets, replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's unflappable leader, the ice keeps. It did... (read more)

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Shackleton
Shackleton
by Roland Huntford
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The acclaimed biographer of Robert Falcon Scott masterfully chronicles the life of one of the last great Edwardian heroes, Ernest Shackleton, from his Anglo-Irish childhood through the race for the South Pole to his last expedition to the North Pole.... (read more)

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