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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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: $6.95
Used - Trade Paper
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)
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Used - Trade Paper
Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
by Barry Lopez
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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)
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Used - Trade Paper
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)
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Used - Hardcover
The Worst Journey in the World
by Apsl Cherry Garrard
Publisher Comments
Selected by Adventure magazine as the number one adventure book of all time, The Worst Journey in the World is Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s dramatic, moving, and exceptionally human account of his survival as the youngest member of Robert Falcon Scott... ( read more)
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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)
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Used - Mass Market
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)
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Used - Hardcover
Islands of the Arctic
by J A Dowdeswell
Publisher Comments
A stunning visual guide to one of Earth??'s last wilderness areas - the Arctic.... ( read more)
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Used - Hardcover
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)
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Used - Hardcover
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)
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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)
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The Entire Earth and Sky: Views on Antarctica
by Leslie Caro Roberts
Publisher Comments
More than a distant continent, Antarctica is a land of the imagination, shaping and shaped for centuries by explorers, adventurers, scientists, and dreamers. The Entire Earth and Sky conjures all these ideas and interweaves them with the experience and... ( read more)
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Used - Hardcover
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)
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Used - Hardcover
Endurance : Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (99 Edition)
by Alfred Lansing
Publisher Comments
In 1914, an expedition headed by Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to be the first to cross the continent of Antarctica. Shipwrecked and marooned for months on end, their ill-fated voyage became a triumphant story of indomitable courage and faith in the face... ( read more)
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Explorers Club Classics #02: the Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-13
by Apsley Cherry-garrard
Publisher Comments
Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) relates the story of Robert Falcon Scott's last expedition to the Antarctic, from its departure from England in 1910 to its arrival in New Zealand in 1913.... ( read more)
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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... ( read more)
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Scotts Last Journey :Scott
by Peter King
Synopsis
This entirely new edition of explorer Robert F. Scott's journal is a first-hand account of his final, ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in 1910, with more than 150 never-before-seen photographs.... ( read more)
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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)
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Around the World - On Expenses
by Peter Biddlecombe
Publisher Comments
Peter Biddlecombe takes us on another irreverent global tour, snubbing his nose at the "gimmick tourists" and carrying on doing what he does best—business, all over the world, with a wonderfully diverse range of characters. Power-players in Milan... ( read more)
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Used - Trade Paper
The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic World
by Robert Mcghee
Publisher Comments
Seaice and the midnight sun, flaming aurora and endless winter night--the arctic of traveler's tales and romantic novels is the unattainable dream of a vast and desolate world--the last imaginary place on Earth. Now, in this fascinating volume, renowned... ( read more)
List Price $30.00
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Used - Hardcover
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