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by Ernest H Shackleton  Publisher Comments Based upon Shackletons diaries and writings , South gives the reader an insight into the appalling condi tions that the author and his party endured when the Enduran ce lay trapped in sea ice and they were forced to march 600 miles across unstable sea... (read more)  List Price $13.95 Your price $3.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Glyndwr Williams Publisher Comments From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, English buccaneers, privateers, and naval expeditions sought fame and fortune in the distant reaches of the South Sea. Beginning with the voyage of Francis Drake in the 1570s and continuing through that of... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $18.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by M L Paine Synopsis In 1933 Antarctica was essentially unexplored. Admiral Richard Byrd launched his Second Expedition to chart the southernmost continent, primarily relying on the muscle power of dog teams and their drivers who skied or ran beside the loaded sledges as... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ann Bancroft Publisher Comments At ages 45 and 47, two former schoolteachers undertook an extraordinary journey. They set out to become the first women to cross the continent of Antarctica on foot. To succeed, American Ann Bancroft and Norwegian Liv Arnesen would have to walk, ski,... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ped Gonzalez Garcia Book News Annotation Seville, the point from which 15th-century Spanish explorers and conquistadors forayed into uncharted lands, aptly serves as the repository of this glorious/infamous history through its General Archives of the Indies. Selected by its staff from 80... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by James Zug Publisher Comments In lively prose, journalist Zug tells the riveting story of John Ledyard, the uniquely American pioneer who, among other things, accompanied Captain Cook on his last voyage; befriended Jefferson, Lafayette, and Thomas Paine in Paris; and was the first... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sue Carter 
Publisher Comments Ordinary Women is an exciting chronicle of the first all-women ski expedition from the Russian side of the planet to the North Pole. Full of surprises from its inception to its execution nearly eight years later, this is an amazing story of women working... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Larner Publisher Comments In this engaging and authoritative book, historian John Larner provides a fresh view of the enigmatic Marco Polo, who, despite a deliberate cultivation of impersonality, continues today to engage the attention of readers. 17 illustrations, 12 in color.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Logan Allen Publisher Comments The third volume of North American Exploration, covering 1784 to 1914, charts a dramatic shift in the purpose, priorities, and results of the exploration of North America. As the nineteenth century opened, exploration was still fostered by the growth of... (read more) List Price $95.00 Your price $30.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Dav Hempleman Adams Publisher Comments This is the story of how David Hempleman-Adams undertook a 1600 mile journey to the North Pole by balloon in an open-air wicker basket. He revisits the trip that inspired him—an ill-fated Swedish expedition in 1897 that had a doomed love affair at... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sam Wright Publisher Comments From one of the last great wildernesses--the Brooks Range of Alaska, one hundred miles inside the Arctic Circle--Sam Wright speaks to an emerging view of nature as an interconnected, dynamic whole. Living in a hand-built, 12'-by-12' cabin, Wright records... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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