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The Worst Journey in the World
The Worst Journey in the World
by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
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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)

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Over the Edge of the World Magellans
Over the Edge of the World Magellans
by Laurence Bergreen
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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)

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South: The Endurance Expedition (Penguin Classics)
South: The Endurance Expedition (Penguin Classics)
by Ernest Shackleton
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New to Penguin Classics. Contains a selection of Frank Hurley's famous photographs of the expedition.... (read more)

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Life on the Ice: No One Goes to Antarctica Alone
Life on the Ice: No One Goes to Antarctica Alone
by Roff Martin Smith
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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)

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Farthest North (99 Edition)
Farthest North (99 Edition)
by Fridjtof Nansen
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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)

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Ring of Ice True Tales of Exploration
Ring of Ice True Tales of Exploration
by Peter Stark
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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)

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I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination
I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination
by Francis Spufford
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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)

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Points Unknown: The Greatest Adventure Writing of the Twentieth Century
Points Unknown: The Greatest Adventure Writing of the Twentieth Century
by David Roberts
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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)

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The American Discovery of Europe
The American Discovery of Europe
by Jack D Forbes
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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)

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Antarctic Oasis: Under the Spell of South Georgia
Antarctic Oasis: Under the Spell of South Georgia
by Tim Carr
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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)

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No Horizon Is So Far: Two Women and Their Historic Journey Across Antarctica
No Horizon Is So Far: Two Women and Their Historic Journey Across Antarctica
by Liv Arnesen
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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)

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Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica
Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica
by Nicholas Johnson
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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)

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The Marco Polo Odyssey: In the Footsteps of a Merchant Who Changed the World with DVD
The Marco Polo Odyssey: In the Footsteps of a Merchant Who Changed the World with DVD
by Harry Rutstein
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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)

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Historical Atlas of Exploration (Historical Atlas)
Historical Atlas of Exploration (Historical Atlas)
by Angus Konstam
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Developed in association with the National Maritime... (read more)

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ADA Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
ADA Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
by Jennifer Niven
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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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The Travels Marco Polo (Penguin Classics)
The Travels Marco Polo (Penguin Classics)
by Marco Polo
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Classic translation of Marco Polo's famous travels. Includes index and maps.... (read more)

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Endurance : Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (59 Edition)
Endurance : Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (59 Edition)
by Alfred Lansing
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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)

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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
by Tony Horwitz
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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)

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True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole
True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole
by Bruce Henderson
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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)

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Conquering the Impossible: My 12,000-Mile Journey Around the Arctic Circle
Conquering the Impossible: My 12,000-Mile Journey Around the Arctic Circle
by Mike Horn
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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)

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