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Icemen by Mick Conefrey Publisher Comments Conefrey and Jordan profile legendary adventurers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook as well as lesser-known Arctic explorers who left their marks. Photos.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.50 Sale - Hardcover 
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Drake: For God, Queen, and Plunder (Brassey's Military Profiles) by Wade G Dudley Publisher Comments Chronicles the dramatic life of one of England's earliest naval heroes and the origins of British naval... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $3.25 Sale - Hardcover
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The Search for the North West Passage by Ann Savours Publisher Comments The search for the North West Passage to the Far East was the main driving force behind British arctic exploration from the 16th to the mid-19th century. It included the famous and ill-fated John Franklin expedition--the disappearance of which and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $6.75 Sale - Hardcover
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Voyage To Desolation Island by Jean Paul Kauffman Synopsis Kauffmann follows in the footsteps of the 18th century sailor Yves-Joseph Kerguelen, who gave his name to the archipelago he discovered in the Indian Ocean. When he made his discovery, Kerguelen was convinced he had found Hell.... (read more) Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Shackleton by Roland Huntford Synopsis Ernest Shackleton, a comtemporary of Scott, sailed on the "Discovery" expedition of 1900, and mounted three expeditions of his own. A social adventurer, it was the pursuit of wealth, fame and power that attracted him more than snow and ice. This book won... (read more) Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places by John Keay Publisher Comments A timely reissue of this classic collection, formerly titled The Mammoth Book of Explorers, contains over 40 fascinating first-hand accounts of exploration including the first crossing of North America, exploration of the Congo, and adventures in Machu... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The South Pole: A Historical Reader (National Geographic Adventure Classics) by Anthony Brandt Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.50 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875 by Russell Potter Publisher Comments This book lluminates the nineteenth-century fascination--in Britain and the U.S.--with visual representations of the Arctic, from fine art to panoramas, engravings, magic lantern slides, and photographs. Drawing from letters, diaries, cartoons, and... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $15.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The North Pole: A Narrative History by Anthony Brandt Publisher Comments "A few toes aren't much to give to achieve the Pole," observed Robert Peary, but as Anthony Brandt's gripping new anthology shows, much more was at risk for the men who tested the limits of endurance to reach the top of the world. Drawing on the... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Voyage of the Vizcaina: The Mystery of Christopher Columbus's Last Ship by Klaus Brinkbaumer Publisher Comments “Not since Morrisons classic book on Columbus has a volume so brilliantly captured the spirit of the man long credited with discovering the New World, yet been the subject of so much mythology and mystery.”—Filipe Castro, Nautical... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Marco Polo by Jonathan Clements Publisher Comments Marco Polo (1254-1324) was born in either Venice or Korcula in what is now Croatia. The son of a merchant family, he left Europe on a trading mission with his father and uncle. The man who arrived back in Italy a generation later in 1295 was... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Oil and Ice: A Story of Arctic Disaster and the Rise and Fall of America's Last Whaling Dynasty by Peter Nichols Publisher Comments "Peter Nichols has crafted a terrifyingly relevant historical narrative...A terrific read." -Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In The Heart of the Sea In 1871, America's last fleet of whaling ships was destroyed in an arctic ice storm. Miraculously, 1,218... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America by Toby Lester Publisher Comments "Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemüller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ring of Ice True Tales of Exploration by Peter Stark Publisher Comments Well into the nineteenth century Arctic explorers believed that they needed only to smash their ships through a ring of ice circling the top of the globe and from there they could tack easily on soft breezes to the North Pole. Acting on this belief... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Ultima Thule: Explorers and Natives in the Polar North by Jean Malaurie Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 399) and index.... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $33.98 Sale - Hardcover
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End of the Earth: Voyaging to Antarctica by Peter Matthiessen Publisher Comments Matthiessen has once again lit upon a subject profoundly fitted to his creative genius. He is simply the ultimate lyricist of loss, a writer brilliantly attentive to the way vanishings are braided into even the most exquisite moments of our lives. He... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Matthew A. Henson's Historic Arctic Journey: The Classic Account of One of the World's Greatest Black Explorers by Matthew Henson Publisher Comments From chapter one “When the news of the discovery of the North Pole, by Commander Peary, was first sent to the world, a distinguished citizen of New York City, well versed in the affairs of the Peary Arctic Club, made the statement, that he was sure... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Surviving Antarctica by David Thomas Publisher Comments We have been endlessly digging snow, which rapidly builds up at the doorways. This is a very important job as we don't want to get trapped in the buildings if there is a fire, one of the biggest risks down here. -- blog entry, Surviving Antarctica Marine... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Sale - Hardcover
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University of Alaska Press - Lives of Great Explorers #01: Storms and Dreams: The Life of Louis De Bougainville by John Dunmore Publisher Comments Witty, charming, and fiercely intelligent, Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville (1729-1811) managed, in the course of a long life, to play a part in nearly every facet of eighteenth-century life and culture. Storms and Dreams is a lively, authoritative... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $31.50 Sale - Hardcover
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McGill-Queen's Native and Northern #28: The Artic Voyages of Martin Frobisher: An Elizabethan Adventure by Robert Mcghee Publisher Comments From the book: "They were five weeks out of England, driving through a storm on the icy edge of the world, when a sudden blast knocked Gabriel on her side. The helmsman tried frantically to turn the tiny ship into the wind that pinned it down, but the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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