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North to the Night: A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic
by Alvah Simon  
Publisher Comments In June 1994 Alvah Simon and his wife, Diana, set off in their 36-foot sailboat to explore the hauntingly beautiful world of icebergs, tundra, and fjords lying high above the Arctic Circle. Four months later, unexpected events would trap Simon alone on...
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Midnight to the North: The Untold Story of the Inuit Women Who Saved the Polaris Expedition
by Sheila Nickerson Publisher Comments 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...
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South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage
by Ernest H 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...
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Columbus: And the Conquest of the Impossible
by F Fernandez Armesto Synopsis This controversial biography of Christopher Columbus argues that he is best understood as a primitive celestial navigator, fuelled by a progressive religiosity yet strongly influenced by mysticism and millennarianism....
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Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World
by David Roberts Publisher Comments In 1743, four stranded Russian sailors survived the next six years in the Arctic with no provisions. Making a bow and arrows from driftwood--since there are no trees there--they survived on reindeer meat until another ship blown off course rescued them....
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South
by Ernest Shackleton Publisher Comments Comparable to "Into Thin Air" and "Alive, " this first-hand account of the expedition which is the subject of the "New York Times" bestseller "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Arctic Expedition" is written by the leader of the fateful expedition...
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Trial by Ice: A True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition
by Richard Parry Publisher Comments A generation ago, America's attention was riveted on our first manned missions into space. Those efforts announced a new and more optimistic spirit of the age and, not for the first time, we set for ourselves what seemed an unattainable goal. In 1871...
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Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer
by Bill Gifford Publisher Comments 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...
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Jaguars and Electric Eels
by Alexan Von Humboldt Publisher Comments A great and innovative thinker, the young Humboldt went on his epochal journey to the New World during a time of revolutionary ferment across Europe. This part of his matchless narrative of adventure and scientific research focuses on his time in...
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The Land of the Great Image
by Maurice Collis Synopsis This book chronicles the great diplomatic coup of Friar Manrique's career, opening the kingdom of Arakan, now Burma to the Church and to Portuguese trade....
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Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909
by Ernest Shackleton Publisher Comments Shackleton's own thrilling account of his first Antarctic expedition and astonishing march to reach the South Pole. With the same drama and adventure of Shackleton's later memoir, South, Heart of the Antarctic chronicles the first polar expedition he led...
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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....
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Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition (Penguin Classics)
by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca Publisher Comments A classic tale of exploration and adventure in the New World. First time in Penguin Classics....
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The Travels Marco Polo (Penguin Classics)
by Marco Polo Publisher Comments Classic translation of Marco Polo's famous travels. Includes index and maps....
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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 Publisher Comments By 1880, John Muir had spent two decades wandering in the wilderness and was turning toward settled family life, but a proposed voyage on the steamer Corwin to search for a shipwrecked whaling vessel proved irresistible for this great adventurer. The...
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Shackleton
by Roland Huntford Publisher Comments The acclaimed biographer of Robert Falcon Scott masterfully chronicles the life of one of the last great Edwardian heroes, Ernest Shackleton, from his Anglo-Irish childhood through the race for the South Pole to his last expedition to the North Pole...
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Lost in the Arctic: Explorations on the Edge (Adrenaline Classics)
by Lawrence Millman Publisher Comments Lawrence Millman writes stylish, often wildly amusing tales of remote places and offbeat characters (from the South Pacific islands of Yap to eccentric author and explorer Hassoldt Davis, a literary man-of-action whose many brushes with death including...
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The Race to the White Continent: Voyages to the Antarctic
by Alan Gurney Synopsis In the 1830s, the forbidding Antarctic region represented the ultimate mystery. The prospect of discovering a lucrative whaling ground made this as yet uncharted and unexploited region especially enticing. This volume provides and account of three...
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Icebound: The Jeannette Expedition's Quest for the North Pole
by Leonard F Guttridge Publisher Comments "On all levels, not least as a psychological tale of polar exploration, Icebound is a book well worth reading." (The New York Times Book Review) On July 8, 1879, thirty-three men set off from San Francisco on the small sailing ship Jeannette planning to...
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Some Like It Cold
by Neville Shulman Synopsis From the icy plains of the Arctic to the glacial wilderness of the Antarctic, Neville Shulman embarked on two epic journeys to achieve his dream of reaching both the North and South Poles. Throughout his adventures, Shulman recounts the stories of the...
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