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Fatal Journey
Examines the events of English explorer Henry Hudson's final expedition in the winter of 1610 and the mutiny that followed; resulting in Hudson, his son, and other crew members being forced off the boat and sent adrift in the frigid Hudson Bay.... (read more)
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Final Voyage
In the summer of 1871, thirty-two whaling ships, carrying 12-year-old William Fish Williams, son of a whaling captain, and 1,218 other men, women, and children, were destroyed in an Arctic ice storm. In a rescue operation of unparalleled daring and... (read more)
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The Ice Balloon
In this grand and astonishing tale, Alec Wilkinson brings us the story of S. A. Andrée, the visionary Swedish aeronaut who, in 1897, during the great age of Arctic endeavor, left to discover the North Pole by flying to it in a hydrogen balloon. Called... (read more)
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Future History of the Arctic
Long at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map of the world, the Arctic has found its way to the center of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century: energy security and the struggle for... (read more)
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Polar Imperative
Winner of the 2011 Lionel Gelber Prize Winner of the 2011 J. W. Dafoe Book Prize Nominated for the 2010 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize Nominated for the 2011 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize Nominated for the Lela Common Book Prize for Canadian History Based on... (read more)
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Mawson's Will
An account of Sir Douglas Mawson's explorations of and discoveries in Antarctica and of his remarkable survival, in 1912, of a solitary trudge through snow, wind, and bitter cold without food or drink.... (read more)
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Four against the Arctic
Follows the author's reconstruction of the survival story of four eighteenth-century Russian sailors who were shipwrecked on the barren Arctic island of Svalbard for six years, discussing the events of the ice wrecking, the four survivors' minimal... (read more)
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Democracy and Religion
Compiled from papers delivered at the third annual Kent State University Symposium on Democracy held in spring 2002, Democracy and Religion: Free Exercise and Diverse Visions explores the interrelations of politics and religion. The work is divided into... (read more)
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Arctic Obsession
The epichistory of the explorers and adventurers who risked -- and sometimes lost -- their lives in the quest toconquer and claimthe Arctic. Ever since approximately 325 BC, the Arctic has been the backdrop for tales of triumph and disaster, of hardship... (read more)
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THE STORIED ICE Exploration, Discovery, and Adventure in Antarctica's Peninsula Region
The Storied Ice: Exploration, Discovery, and Adventure in Antarctica's Peninsula Region recounts mankind's dramatic history-from Magellan through the first years of the twenty-first century-in the part of the Antarctic regions below South America and the... (read more)
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Alone
When Admiral Richard E. Byrd set out on his second Antarctic expedition in 1934, he was already an international hero for having piloted the first flights over the North and South Poles. His plan for this latest adventure was to spend six months alone... (read more)
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The Coldest Crucible
In the late 1800s, “Arctic Fever” swept across the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to the Arctic to find a sea route to Asia and, ultimately, to stand at the North Pole. Few of these missions were successful, and many men lost... (read more)
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Negotiating the Arctic
This work draws upon the history of Arctic development and the view of the Arctic in different states to explain how such a discourse has manifested itself in current broader cooperation across eight statistics analysis based on organization developments... (read more)
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The Ice Master
In 1913 an expedition party sailed out of British Columbia in search of an undiscovered Arctic continent. Filled with hope and excitement, the twenty-five people on board had no hint of the tragedy that lay ahead. Imprisoned in ice, abandoned by their... (read more)
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Rescue at the Top of the World
Winter came early to the Arctic in 1897. Frigid temperatures brought pack ice that filled the waters north of the Bering Strait. As a result, virtually the entire North American whaling fleet was trapped, stranding 300 men to die of starvation and... (read more)
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From Barrow to Boothia
Over a three-year period from 1837 to 1939, operating from a base-camp at Fort Confidence on Great Bear Lake, the expedition achieved its goal. Despite serious problems with sea ice, Dease and Simpson, in some of the longest small-boat voyages in the... (read more)
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Oil and Ice
"Peter Nichols has crafted a terrifyingly relevant historical narrative...A terrific read." -Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In The Heart of the Sea In 1871, an entire fleet of whaling ships was caught in an arctic ice storm and destroyed. Though few... (read more)
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Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers
In recent years the view has emerged that the Inuit were coerced by the Canadian government into abandoning life in scattered camps for centres of habitation. InArctic Migrants/Arctic VillagersDavid Damas demonstrates that for many years government... (read more)
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Ninety Degrees North
The author of Barrow's Boys and Killing Degrees details the incredible journey to the North Pole by a group of intrepid explorers who survived starvation, sickness, and a shipwreck to reach their goal. Reprint.... (read more)
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South
In August of 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton set out with a crew of twenty-eight aboard the ship 'Endurance' in an effort to become the first men to cross the vast Antarctic land mass. Their adventurous tale of exploration soon became a struggle for survival... (read more)
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