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The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard Publisher Comments Cherry-Garrard, who accompanied Robert Falcon Scott to the Antarctic on the explorer's doomed quest for the South Pole, recounts the unforgettable journey across forbidding, inhospitable terrain. He was also a member of the search party that ultimately... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Over the Edge of the World Magellans by Laurence Bergreen Staff Pick A superb story that throws light on Magellan’s audacious circumnavigation of the globe, Over the Edge of the World is a fascinating lesson in history that delivers as much adventure and appeal as Dava Sobel’s Longitude, and Nathaniel... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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South: The Endurance Expedition (Penguin Classics) by Ernest Shackleton Publisher Comments New to Penguin Classics. Contains a selection of Frank Hurley's famous photographs of the expedition.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Life on the Ice: No One Goes to Antarctica Alone by Roff Martin Smith Publisher Comments The author of "Cold Beer and Crocodiles" now takes readers on a fascinating trek across the icy plains of the coldest and most remote edge of the world.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Farthest North (99 Edition) by Fridjtof Nansen Publisher Comments This brilliant first-person account, originally published in 1897, marks the beginning of the modern age of exploration, vividly describing Nansen's dangerous voyage and his 15-month-long dash to the North Pole by sled.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ring of Ice True Tales of Exploration by Peter Stark Publisher Comments Well into the nineteenth century Arctic explorers believed that they needed only to smash their ships through a ring of ice circling the top of the globe and from there they could tack easily on soft breezes to the North Pole. Acting on this belief... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.00 Used - Hardcover
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I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination by Francis Spufford Publisher Comments Francis Spufford explores the British obsession with polar exploration in a book that Jan Morris, writing in The Times, called, "A truly majestic work of scholarship, thought and literary imagination . . ." The title, a last quote from one explorer to... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Points Unknown: The Greatest Adventure Writing of the Twentieth Century by David Roberts Publisher Comments Roberts and the editors of "Outside" have gathered the most enduring adventure literature of the century into one heart-stopping volume. By turns charming and tragic, whimsical and nerve-racking, this extraordinary collection gets to the heart of why... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The American Discovery of Europe by Jack D Forbes Publisher Comments The American Discovery of Europe investigates the voyages of America's Native peoples to the European continent before Columbus's 1492 arrival in the "New World." The product of over twenty years of exhaustive research in libraries throughout Europe and... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $24.95 Used - Hardcover
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Antarctic Oasis: Under the Spell of South Georgia by Tim Carr Publisher Comments After twenty-five years of cruising the world's oceans, renowned blue-water sailors Pauline and Tim Carr found themselves being drawn to the lonely places of the higher latitudes to experience earth's last, scarcely touched regions. Antarctic Oasis... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $27.95 Used - Hardcover
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No Horizon Is So Far: Two Women and Their Historic Journey Across Antarctica by Liv Arnesen Publisher Comments The first women to cross the continent of Antarctica on foot "prove that nothing is beyond our wildest dreams" (Billie Jean King) in this riveting true-life adventure of suspense, danger, and endurance.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica by Nicholas Johnson Publisher Comments Johnson's savagely funny [book] is a grunt's-eye view of fear and loathing, arrogance and insanity in a dysfunctional, dystopian closed community. It's like M*A*S*Hon ice, a bleak, black comedy."-The Timesof... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Marco Polo Odyssey: In the Footsteps of a Merchant Who Changed the World with DVD by Harry Rutstein Synopsis The Marco Polo Odyssey tracks the fantastic journey of an intrepid adventurer who spent ten years following the 13,000 mile overland route of Marco Polo from Venice to Israel, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and finally crossing China to Beijing. It... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Historical Atlas of Exploration (Historical Atlas) by Angus Konstam Publisher Comments Developed in association with the National Maritime... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 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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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz Staff Pick With the same sly humor and neighborly curiosity he brought to Confederates in the Attic and Blue Latitudes, in A Voyage Long and Strange Tony Horwitz roams the New World, surveying the destinations of history's foremost explorers: Leif Eiriksson... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole by Bruce Henderson Publisher Comments THIS BOOK is about one of the most enduring and vitriolic feuds in the history of exploration. "What a consummate cur he is," said Robert Peary of Frederick Cook in 1911. Cook responded, "Peary has stooped to every crime from rape to murder." They had... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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