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Antarctic Destinies: Scott, Shackleton, and the Changing Face of Heroism (Hambledon Continuum)
by Stephani Barczewski  Publisher Comments This book looks at the two most famous expeditions of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration, Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition of 1910-12 and Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition of 1914-16. It focuses not only on the two expeditions, but...
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Terra Antarctica: Looking Into the Emptiest Continent
by William Fox Publisher Comments How does the human mind transform space into place, or land into landscape? For more than three decades, William L. Fox has looked at empty landscapes and the role of the arts to investigate the way humans make sense of space. In Terra Antarctica, Fox...
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Ice Bound
by Jerri Nielsen 
Publisher Comments 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...
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Conquering the Impossible: My 12,000-Mile Journey Around the Arctic Circle
by Mike Horn Publisher Comments In August 2002, Mike Horn set out on a mission that bordered on the impossible: to travel 12,000 miles around the globe at the Arctic Circle - alone, against all prevailing winds and currents, and without motorized transportation. This is the gripping...
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On the Ice
by Gretchen Legler Publisher Comments Travelogue, cultural meditation, and love story, On the Ice casts a panoramic view on one of the oddest communities in one of the most extreme places on earth. Sent to Antarctica as an observer by the National Science Foundation, Gretchen Legler arrives...
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Voyage Discovery V2
by Robert Falcon Scott Publisher Comments This publication reproduces in facsimile the rare, lavishly illustrated deluxe edition. Robert F. Scott is best known for his failed, fatal efforts to be the first to reach the South Pole, but his initial Antarctic expedition aboard the Discovery from...
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Antarctica On A Plate
by Alexa Thomson Publisher Comments She came. She saw. She burnt the toast. A young woman with a stellar city career but an increasing dissatisfaction with life, Alexa applies for the position of cook with a private company which organises Antarctic operations. Armed with an old cookbook...
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Frozen Oceans: The Floating World of Pack Ice
by David N Thomas Publisher Comments Discover and explore worlds containing unexpected life. As some scientists search for life on the frozen planet of Mars, others are discovering life in unexpected places here on Earth. Frozen Oceans follows the expeditions of polar scientists in the...
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Antarctica: Life on the Ice
by Susan Fox Rogers Publisher Comments Antarctica’s legend as a fascinating, forbidding place is confirmed and expanded in these insider articles. Covering everything from “Happy Camper School” to washing dishes to what it’s like to fall in love in a place where the...
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Surviving Antarctica
by David N. Thomas Publisher Comments We have been endlessly digging snow, which rapidly builds up at the doorways. This is a very important job as we don't want to get trapped in the buildings if there is a fire, one of the biggest risks down here. -- blog entry, Surviving Antarctica Marine...
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Polar Dream: The First Solo Expedition by a Woman and Her Dog to the Magnetic North Pole
by Helen Thayer Publisher Comments In 1988, at the age of 50, Helen Thayer became the first woman in the world to travel on foot to the magnetic North Pole, one of the world's most remote and dangerous regions. Her only companion was Charlie, her loyal husky, who was integral to her...
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Poles Apart: Parallel Visions of the Arctic and Antarctic
by Galen Rowell Publisher Comments The harsh beauty of the polar regions has long fascinated explorers and armchair adventurers alike. The forbidding terrain and exotic life-forms appeal to our sense of wonder, and while we may think of them as similar, the Arctic and Antarctic are as...
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Scotts Last Expedition
by R F Scott
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Pechuck Inscribed
by Richard Montgomery
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Howling Arctic the Remarkable People Who
by Ray Price
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Escape From the Antarctic
by Ernest Shackleton
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In the Land of the Musk Ox
by John Giaever
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North-West Passage
by Willy de Roos
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Arctic Wild
by Lois Crisler
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