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Antarctica Wildlife 5TH Edition by Tony Soper Publisher Comments Both a beautiful and practical guidebook, Bradt’s Antarctica Wildlife has remained a perennial favourite with cruise voyagers to this remarkable continent and a book suitable for natural history lovers to dip into.This guide covers Antarctica’... (read more) Your price: $25.99 New - Trade Paper 
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Subantarctic Wilderness: Macquarie Island by Aleks Terauds Publisher Comments A tiny speck of land caught between Australia and Antarctica, Macquarie Island is as remote and rugged as it is beautiful. Despite its small size, for huge numbers of seals, penguins, and albatrosses this raw, elemental landscape is a sanctuary, while... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Hardcover
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Summer Ice: Life Along the Antarctic Peninsula by Bruce Mcmillan Publisher Comments Antarctica, at the bottom of the world, is an island of ice. Even in the summer, temperatures aren't much above freezing. Astonishingly, though, the peninsula is a place where life thrives. Penguins raise their young while warding off scavenging birds... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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No Horizon Is So Far: Two Women and Their Extraordinary Journey Across Antarctica by Ann Bancroft Publisher Comments At ages 45 and 47, two former schoolteachers undertook an extraordinary journey. They set out to become the first women to cross the continent of Antarctica on foot. To succeed, American Ann Bancroft and Norwegian Liv Arnesen would have to walk, ski,... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $2.49 Used - Hardcover
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Ambassador to the Penguins: A Naturalist's Year Aboard a Yankee Whaleship by Eleanor Mathews Publisher Comments In 1912, a young naturalist named Robert Cushman Murphy was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to spend two years on one of the last Yankee whaleships out of New Bedford, on a voyage to Antarctica. Only recently married, Murphy had many regrets at... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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March of the Penguins by Luc Jacquet Publisher Comments This winning combination of vivid photographs and informative, inspiring text is the companion volume to the extraordinary surprise hit film deemed "Irresistible" by "Entertainment Weekly. Timed perfectly for the holidays and the November release of the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land by Subhankar Banerjee Publisher Comments It is a land of pristine wilderness, pulsing with life even in the depths of white subzero winter. Entirely unscarred by roads or signs, it is the place in all Alaska where the polar bear most often prefers to den. It is host to more than 180 resident... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Frozen World (Small Panorama) by Patrick Hook Publisher Comments This series has done so well that we have produced a smaller, more portable size for those who wish to have a more manageable gift book. These are also available in the original oversized coffee table format of 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 with 256 pages. Beautifully... (read more) Your price: $12.99 New - Hardcover
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End of the Earth: Expeditions to South Georgia and Antarctica by Peter Matthiessen Publisher Comments Brilliantly attuned to the transience of nature and painfully aware of the precariousness of a polar environment facing global warming, Peter Matthiessen provides an exquisite account of his voyage through the islands surrounding Antarctica. In lyrical... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $7.00 Used - Hardcover
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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land by Subhankar Banerjee Publisher Comments It is a land of pristine wilderness, pulsing with life even in the depths of white subzero winter. Entirely unscarred by roads or signs, it is the place in all Alaska where the polar bear most often prefers to den. It is host to more than 180 resident... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Riddle of the Ice: A Scientific Adventure Into the Arctic by Myron Arms Publisher Comments By any account, the impenetrable barrier of sea ice that blocked the Brendan's Isle halfway up the Labrador Coast should not have been there in late July, in what was one of the hottest summers in memory a few hundred miles to the south. Frustrated and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $3.38 Used - Trade Paper
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Antarctica: A Guide to the Wildlife by Tony Soper Synopsis This unique, hardbound color book is a guide to the phenomenal wildlife south of the Antarctic convergence. Authored by a well-known naturalist and lecturer on Antarctica, this is the definitive reference for a region that is one of the few remaining... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A is for Arctic: Natural Wonders of a Polar World by Wayne Lynch Publisher Comments Wonderfully illustrated with photographs that capture the delicate beauty and complex nature of the region, A IS FOR ARCTIC will change forever the way you view the North.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reindeer on South Georgia: The Ecology of an Introduced Population by N Leader Williams Publisher Comments The introduction earlier this century of Norwegian reindeer to the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia provided scientists with the unusual opportunity of studying the interaction between a large arctic herbivore and a southern ecosystem that had not... (read more) Your price: $60.00 Used - Hardcover
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In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic by Valerian Albanov Publisher Comments In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prove even more disastrous. In search of new Arctic hunting... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.75 Used - Hardcover
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Spirit of the Polar Regions by Gerard Cheshire List Price $19.99 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Arctic Quest: Odyessy Through a Threatened Wilderness by Chad Kister Publisher Comments Chad Kister takes you on a riveting 700-mile journey by raft and foot. See the Arctic Refuge beauty first hand through the dangers Kister survives. A broken backpack-repaired with caribou antlers-pales against the spirited chase by security guards trying... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Poles by Willy Ley Your price: $2.40 Used - Hardcover
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Arctic Wildlife by Monte Hummel List Price $29.95 Your price: $20.00 Used - Hardcover
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Voyage To Antarctica by Chief Executives Org Your price: $4.80 Used - Spiral
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