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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage 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) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 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: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ada Blackjack (04 Edition) by 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 seamstress... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Future History of the Arctic by Charles Emmerson Publisher Comments 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) List Price $28.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Worst Journey in the World (05 Edition) by Apsley Cherry-garrard Publisher Comments The Worst Journey in the World recounts Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrard—the youngest member of Scott’s team and one of three men to make and survive the notorious Winter Journey—... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage by Ernest Henry 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) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition 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) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Shackleton's Boat Journey: The Narrative from the Captain of the Endurance by Frank Arthur Worsley Publisher Comments Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition was trapped when their ship became stuck in pack ice. This is the captain's version of this remarkable journey.... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven Publisher Comments From the author of "The Ice Master" comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate uninhabited Arctic island in 1921.... (read more) List Price $34.25 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Arctic Circle: Birth and Rebirth in the Land of the Caribou by Robert Leonard Reid Publisher Comments Every year without fail, caribou from the Yukon and Alaska set off in early April to a small corner of the Arctic Circle to give birth to their young. The journey of 3000 miles is the longest migration of any land animal on earth. Despite the formidable... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $17.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica by Nicholas Johnson Publisher Comments Johnson’s savagely funny [book] is a grunt’s-eye view of fear and loathing, arrogance and insanity in a dysfunctional, dystopian closed community. It’s like M*A*S*H on ice, a bleak, black comedy.”—The Times of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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