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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 
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 Martin W. 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 $14.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used 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) List Price $14.95 Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Alvah Simon
Publisher Comments In June 1994 Alvah Simon and his wife, Diana, set off in their 36-foot sailboat to explore the hauntingly beautiful world of icebergs, tundra, and fjords lying high above the Arctic Circle. Four months later, unexpected events would trap Simon alone on... (read more) Your Price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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 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 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 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
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by David Thomas Murphy Publisher Comments German Exploration of the Polar World is the exciting story of the generations of German polar explorers who braved the perils of the Arctic and Antarctic for themselves and their country. Such intrepid adventurers as Wilhelm Filchner, Erich von... (read more) Your Price $14.98 (Sale - Hardcover) more about this title 
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) Your Price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Melanie Mcgrath Publisher Comments In 1932, the Canadian government forcibly relocated three dozen Inuit from their flourishing home on the Hudson Bay to the barren, arctic landscape of Ellesmere Island, the most northerly landmass on the planet. Among this group was Josephie Flaherty... (read more) Your Price $13.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Fergus Fleming Publisher Comments The author of "Barrow's Boys" presents the epic story of the men who stopped at nothing to unravel the mysteries of the North Pole.... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Frederick A Cook Publisher Comments The subzero temperatures were only one of the dangers explorer Frederick Cook (1865–1940) faced in his attempts to reach the North Pole. During his extraordinary and harrowing journey, he fought off arctic wolves and polar bears, lived through ice... (read more) Your Price $4.60 (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 $3.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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