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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...
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Worst Journey in the World, The
by Apsley Cherry-Garrard Publisher Comments The author was 24 when he was chosen from among 8,000 volunteers to join Scott's scientific expedition to the South Pole. Scott did not return, and Cherry-Garrard was determined to honor the accomplishments of all who participated....
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The Ice Master
by Jennifer Niven Publisher Comments It was to be the greatest and most elaborate Arctic expedition in history, with the largest scientific staff ever taken on such a journey. It's leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, was celebrated for his studies of Eskimo life and, with this mission, hoped to...
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Farthest North
by Fridtjof Nansen Publisher Comments In 1893 Nansen set sail in the Fram, a ship specially designed and built to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel with the sea's drift closer to the North Pole than anyone had ever gone before. Experts said such a...
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Shackleton's Boat Journey: The Narrative from the Captain of the Endurance
by Frank Worsley Publisher Comments Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition is trapped when their ship gets stuck in pack ice. Worsley was the ship's captain, and narrates the story of this remarkable journey, in which not a single man was lost, despite the unspeakable hardships....
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South: A Journal of the Endurance Voyage
by Ernest Shackleton Publisher Comments This New Albion Press edition contains 15 of the original expedition photographs by expedition photographer Frank Hurley, as well as 6 maps of the journey by expedition leader Sir Ernest Shackleton, a Glossary of Terms, and a timeline of the expedition's...
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Cruise of the Corwin
by John Muir Publisher Comments In spring of 1881 John Muir set out on the ship 'Corwin' for a journey of 15,000 nautical miles from San Francisco into the Arctic sea. Muir went along because of his fascination with glaciers. This turned out to be Muir's last great foray....
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The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antartic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-12
by Roald Amundsen
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