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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 $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape by Barry Lopez Publisher Comments Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his masterpiece. Lopez offers a thorough examination of this obscure world-its terrain, its wildlife, its history of Eskimo natives and intrepid explorers... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk by Jennifer Niven Publisher Comments Based on the diaries of those who were rescued and those who perished, this is the chilling true story of the "Karluk's" doomed 1913 exploration of the Arctic and the heroic efforts of the ship's captain, the Ice Master, who traveled by foot through... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Endurance 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) Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.71 Used - 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: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Last of the Gentlemen Adventurers Coming by Edward Beau Maurice Publisher Comments In 1930 a sixteen-year-old boy left England to become one of the last of the 'gentlemen adventurers' - the fur traders of the Hudson's Bay Company. In the Arctic he found adventure, love and loss as he came to grips with Eskimo life.... (read more) Your price: $9.71 Used - Hardcover
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The Island Within by Richard K Nelson Publisher Comments Here is Nelson's luminously wise account of his exploration of an unnamed island in the Pacific Northwest. This book revises our own relationship with nature, allowing us to observe it and also to participate in it with reverence and a sense of wonder.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic by E C Pielou Publisher Comments This book is a practical, portable guide to all of the Arctic's natural historysky, atmosphere, terrain, ice, the sea, plants, birds, mammals, fish, and insectsfor those who will experience the Arctic firsthand and for armchair travelers who would just... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Endurance : Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (59 Edition) 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: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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E. H. Shackleton: Shackleton: The Antarctic Challenge by Kim Heacox Publisher Comments In August 1914, as World War I began, Ernest Shackleton and a small band of explorers sailed for Antarctica aboard a ship called Endurance. Few expeditions have been more aptly named -- and few leaders more courageous or inspirational. For two years... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rowing to Latitude by Jill Fredston Publisher Comments Two by sea: A couple rows the wild coasts of the far north Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband, Doug Fesler, in a small boat of his own, she... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World by David Roberts Publisher Comments When David Roberts came across a reference to four Russian sailors who had survived for six years on a barren Arctic island, he was incredulous. An expert on the literature of adventure, Roberts had never heard the story and doubted its veracity. His... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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End of the Earth: Voyaging to Antarctica by Peter Matthiessen Publisher Comments Matthiessen has once again lit upon a subject profoundly fitted to his creative genius. He is simply the ultimate lyricist of loss, a writer brilliantly attentive to the way vanishings are braided into even the most exquisite moments of our lives. He... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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ADA Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer 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... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fatal North: Adventure and Survival Aboard USS Polaris, the First U.S. Expedition to the North Pole by Bruce Henderson Publisher Comments "Well worth reading." (Booklist) "Fans of adventure writing will appreciate this fine book." (Publishers Weekly) It began as America's first attempt to reach the North Pole. It ended with the captain's suspicious death, a brutal struggle for survival on... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole by Diana Preston Publisher Comments On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier found what they sought--the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. 3 maps. Two 8-page inserts.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fury Beach by Ray Edinger Publisher Comments In his four-year arctic adventure, sea captain and scientist John Ross discovered the magnetic North Pole, the life of the Inuit people-and the wisdom that comes only from pushing the boundaries of human courage. In his biography, Ray Edinger "looks... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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