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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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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Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic
Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic
by Lennard Bickel
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This is a dramatic true story of Antarctic tragedy and survival among the heroic group that was to lay supplies across the Great Ross Ice Shelf in preparation for the Endurance expedition. Launched by Shackleton (and led by Captain Aenaes Mackintosh... (read more)

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Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
by David Roberts
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On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss... (read more)

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The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic World
The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic World
by Robert Mcghee
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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)

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South
South
by Ernest Shackleton
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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)

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The Shackleton's Boat Journey
The Shackleton's Boat Journey
by F A Worsley
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Written by the Captain of the Endurance, the ship used by Shackleton on his 1914-16 ill-fated journey, this book is a remarkable tale of courage and bravery in the face of extreme odds and a vivid portrait of one of the world's greatest explorers.... (read more)

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On the Ice
On the Ice
by Gretchen Legler
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Travelogue, cultural meditation, and love story, "On the Ice" casts a panoramic view on one of the oddest communities in one of the most extreme places on earth. Sent to Antarctica as an observer by the National Science Foundation, Gretchen Legler... (read more)

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The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Modern Library Exploration)
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole (Modern Library Exploration)
by Roland Huntford
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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)

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The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
by Jennifer Niven
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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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In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic (Modern Library Exploration)
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic (Modern Library Exploration)
by Valerian Albanov
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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)

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Finding the Arctic: History and Culture Along a 2,500-Mile Snowmobile Journey from Alaska to Hudson's Bay
Finding the Arctic: History and Culture Along a 2,500-Mile Snowmobile Journey from Alaska to Hudson's Bay
by Matthew Sturm
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The history of the Arctic is rich, filled with fascinating and heroic stories of exploration, multicultural interactions, and humans facing nature at its most extreme. In Finding the Arctic, the accomplished arctic researcher Matthew Sturm collects some... (read more)

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Antarctica: The Blue Continent
Antarctica: The Blue Continent
by David Mcgonigal
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An Illustrated guide to Antarctica's environment, geography, wildlife, and history.... (read more)

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Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure
Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure
by Belinda Worsley
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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)

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Ice Bound
Ice Bound
by Jerri Nielsen
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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)

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The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration
The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration
by Alec Wilkinson
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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)

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Oil and Ice: A Story of Arctic Disaster and the Rise and Fall of America's Last Whaling Dynasty
Oil and Ice: A Story of Arctic Disaster and the Rise and Fall of America's Last Whaling Dynasty
by Peter Nichols
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"Peter Nichols has crafted a terrifyingly relevant historical narrative...A terrific read." -Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In The Heart of the Sea In 1871, America's last fleet of whaling ships was destroyed in an arctic ice storm. Miraculously, 1,218... (read more)

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Arctic Sun on My Path: The True Story of America's Last Great Polar Explorer
Arctic Sun on My Path: The True Story of America's Last Great Polar Explorer
by Willie Knutsen
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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)

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The Karluk's Last Voyage
The Karluk's Last Voyage
by Robert A Bartlett
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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)

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Race To the Pole Conquering Antarctica in the Worlds Toughtest Endurance Race
Race To the Pole Conquering Antarctica in the Worlds Toughtest Endurance Race
by James Cracknell
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New Year's Day, 2009. Somewhere on the bottom of the world, six teams of adventurers and explorers have gathered to race one another, on foot, to the South Pole. It is the first time that anyone has undertaken such a race in almost a hundred years; the... (read more)

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Four Against the Arctic:  Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World
Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World
by David Roberts
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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)

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