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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 $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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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) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $29.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Crane Publisher Comments A richly illuminating biography of Robert Falcon Scott, and the first to transcend the myths that have taken root in the story of his life. Since Scott’s death in 1912, he has been the subject of innumerable books—some declaring him a hero... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jennifer Niven
Publisher Comments Ada Blackjack was an unlikely hero — an unskilled 23-year-old Inuit woman with no knowledge of the world outside Nome, Alaska. Divorced, impoverished, and despondent, she had one focus in her life — to care for her sickly young son. In... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $23.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Clive Powell-Williams Publisher Comments Jack Hornby was determined to make himself as great a name as George Mallory, Robert Scott, and T.E. Lawrence---self-assured, aristocratic, handsome, his life’s ambition was to prove to his family and to the world that he could survive, even thrive,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Elizabeth Kolbert Publisher Comments A beautiful literary anthology published to commemorate the International Polar Year—and remind us what we’re in danger of losing. The Arctic and Antarctic ice shelves have been an object of obsession for as long as we’ve known... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $20.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Mcghee Publisher Comments Sea ice 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 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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) check for new and sale copies
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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 $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alfred Lansing Synopsis 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) List Price $12.99 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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) Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jim Mastro Synopsis From the aurora australis to Bird Island, a photojournalist takes readers on his journey to the harsh, desolate, yet beautiful place that is Antarctica. 120 color photos.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ron Naveen Publisher Comments A tour de force of nature writing, Ron Naveen's Waiting to Fly captures the spirit of the gentle and charming creatures called penguins while also beautifully rendering the frozen, windswept landscapes through his magical prose.In Waiting to Fly, Naveen... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Valerian Albanov Publisher Comments In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prove even more disastrous. In search of new Arctic hunting... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $17.50 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bruce B 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) List Price $7.99 Your price $2.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Ray Edinger Publisher Comments In his four-year arctic adventure, sea captain and scientist John Ross discovered the magnetic North Pole, the life of the Inuit people-and the wisdom that comes only from pushing the boundaries of human courage. In his biography, Ray Edinger looks... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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