Ice Bound
by Jerri Nielsen




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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)

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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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Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels: Travel and Colonial Writing in English, 1550-1630: An Anthology
by Andrew Hadfield


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Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels is an accessible and unique anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, selected to represent the world-picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers in England. It includes not just the... (read more)

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Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer
by Bill Gifford


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For decades after his death in 1789, John Ledyard was celebrated as the greatest explorer America had ever produced. A veteran of Captain Cook's final voyage, he walked across nearly all of Russia and suggested to his friend Thomas Jefferson that... (read more)

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Captain Cook in the Pacific
by Nigel Rigby


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As a man whose "competence changed the face of the world," Captain James Cook has fascinated and intrigued generations of people worldwide. This lively and highly illustrated account of the man and his Pacific voyages draws on the National Maritime... (read more)

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Ship Retracing Cooks Endeavour Voyage
by Simon Baker


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The story of Captain Cook's voyage on the "Endeavour" and a description of what happened when a BBC team of volunteers boarded a magnificent replica of the ship to retrace a dramatic stretch of its route, from Cape Grafton in Australia to Jakarta in... (read more)

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The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in Search of de Long and the Jeannette
by John Muir


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In the spring of 1881, the steamship Thomas Corwin began a daring voyage of 15,000 nautical miles into treacherous Arctic seas to search for captain G. W. De Long and his ship Jeannette, which had left San Francisco two years earlier to drift across the... (read more)

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Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World
by David Roberts


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When David Roberts came across a reference to four Russian sailors who had survived for six years on a barren Arctic island, he was incredulous. An expert on the literature of adventure, Roberts had never heard the story and doubted its veracity. His... (read more)

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Midnight to the North: The Untold Story of the Inuit Women Who Saved the Polaris Expedition
by Sheila Nickerson


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In 1871, Charles Francis Hall's Polaris expedition set out to be the first official American party to reach the North Pole. Five months later, the Polaris had become locked in ice and Hall was dead-likely murdered. The expedition members were set adrift... (read more)

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Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic Quest
by Ranulph Fiennes


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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)

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Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook
by Nicholas Thomas


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"Deep in its research, broad in its sympathies, imaginative in its reconstruction of events and thought processes and graceful in its prose style, Cook presents a winning combination of qualities."-- The New York Times Book Review Commonly regarded... (read more)

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The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580
by Samuel Bawlf


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When Sir Francis Drake returned to England in 1580, many questions concerning his momentous voyage were left unansweredhis journals were impounded and his men were forbidden, on pain of death, to divulge where they had been. Drawing on newly uncovered... (read more)

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Resolution Captain Cooks Second Voyage
by Peter Aughton


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This is the story of Captain Cook's second voyage of exploration in the far southern waters of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. It charts the adventures of James Cook and his crew aboard the Resolution as they landed on exotic islands and coasts... (read more)

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The Last Voyage of Captain Cook: Including the Siberian Journals and Selected Letters of John Ledyard
by John Ledyard


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The Last Voyage Of Captain Cook Meet John Ledyard, perhaps the greatest little-known explorer in American history. Ledyard (1751-1789) sailed with Capt. James Cook, formed a fur trading company with John Paul Jones, and dreamed, with Thomas Jerfferson... (read more)

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Jaguars and Electric Eels
by Alexan Von Humboldt


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Inspired by Penguins innovative Great Ideas series, our new Great Journeys series presents the most incredible tours, voyages, treks, expeditions, and travels ever writtenfrom Isabella Birds exaltation in the dangers of grizzlies, rattlesnakes, and... (read more)

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Brutal Journey: The Epic Story of the First Crossing of North America (John MacRae Books)
by Paul Schneider


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A gripping account of four explorers adrift in an unknown land and the harrowing journey that took them across North America 270 years before Lewis and Clark One part Heart of Darkness, one part Lewis and Clark, Brutal Journey tells the story of a group... (read more)

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The Fatal Voyage: Captain Cook's Last Great Journey
by Peter Aughton


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Cook was the greatest explorer of his age and his voyages of discovery are the stuff of legend. During two long journeys, he circumnavigated the globe twice, charted the east coast of Australia, the whole of New Zealand and many islands in the Pacific... (read more)

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The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party
by Kelly Tyler-Lewis


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The harrowing tale of the Ross Sea party, the other side of Shackleton's Endurance expedition. In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to make history by crossing the Antarctic continent. Shackleton's story is legend, but few... (read more)

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