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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 $35.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover 
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Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape by Barry Lopez Publisher Comments A season of transition in North Americaand#8217;s last great wilderness From Nunavut and the Barren Lands of Canada to the westernmost edge of Alaska and back to Churchill, Manitoba, Pete Dunneand#8217;s experiences in the Arctic comprise wilderness... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 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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The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic World by Robert Mcghee Publisher Comments The Arctic of towering icebergs and midnight sun, of flaming auroras and endless winter nights, has long provoked flights of the imagination. Now, in The Last Imaginary Place, renowned archeologist Robert McGhee lifts the veil to reveal the true Arctic... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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South by Ernest Shackleton Publisher Comments In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets out to become the first to traverse the Antarctic continent. Their initial optimism is short-lived, however, as the ice field slowly thickens... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Modern Library Exploration) by Roland Huntford Publisher Comments The definitive account of the contest between Britain's Robert Scott and Norway's Raoul Amundsen for the most coveted prize in the age of modern exploration: Antarctica. "One of the great debunking biographies."--"The New York Times Book Review."... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 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: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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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 $21.25 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $27.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic by Edward Beau Maurice Publisher Comments At 16, Maurice impulsively signed up with the Hudson's Bay Company and was sent to an isolated trading post in the Canadian Arctic, where he immersed himself in the Inuit people's culture and way of life. Through deadly epidemics and the struggle to... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic (Modern Library Exploration) by Valerian Albanov Publisher Comments Including a new Epilogue, this is "one helluva read" ("Newsweek") and a chilling first-person account of extreme survival in the Siberian Arctic, rediscovered by Jon Krakauer and David Roberts. "Vivid . . . (a work of) terrifying beauty."--"The Boston... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure by F. A Worsley Publisher Comments You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. "What the ice gets," replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's unflappable leader, "the ice keeps." It... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909 by Pierre Berton Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 641-660) and index.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration by Alec Wilkinson Publisher Comments In this grand and astonishing tale, Alec Wilkinson brings us the story of S. A. Andrée, the visionary Swedish aeronaut who, in 1897, during the great age of Arctic endeavor, left to discover the North Pole by flying to it in a hydrogen balloon... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Time on Ice a Winter Voyage To Antarctica by Deborah Shapiro Publisher Comments ANTARCTICA: To the early mapmakers it was Terra Incognita, and it remains a remote, brooding presence, more mythic than real, its mystery only deepened by the legendary journeys of Shackleton, Amundsen, and Scott. Answering the siren's call, Deborah... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Arctic Sun on My Path: The True Story of America's Last Great Polar Explorer by Willie Knutsen Publisher Comments As a boy in Oslo, Brooklyn-born Willie Knutsen dreamed of great ships navigating among massive icebergs, sled dogs straining eagerly against their leather harnesses, and the cold arctic sun glinting on vast stretches of inhospitable icy terrain. His... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Polar Dream: The Heroic Saga of the First Solo Journey by a Woman & Her Dog to the Pole by Helen Thayer Publisher Comments Everyone told her it couldn't be done...especially by a woman. But in 1988, fifty-year-old Helen Thayer, accompanied only by her black husky Charlie, became the first woman ever to ski solo to the North Pole. After overcoming her first obstacle--the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written by Lennard Bickel Publisher Comments Mawson's Will is the dramatic story of what Sir Edmund Hillary calls "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history." For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced some of the most daunting conditions ever known to man: blistering... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Karluk's Last Voyage by Robert A Bartlett Publisher Comments We did not all come back. Thus begins this firsthand account of the extraordinary adventure of the Karluk, the flagship of explorer Vilhjalmar Steffanson's Arctic expedition of 1913-1916. When the Karluk became trapped in the ice, Steffanson abandoned... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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