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  • The astonishing saga of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's survival for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as Time magazine put it, "defined heroism." Alfred Lansing's scrupulously…
    Endurance

    Endurance - Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

    By Alfred Lansing rating of short cover   ( 19035 customer ratings) Basic Books, March 2008 ISBN: 9780306817731 History, Polar Regions Language:  English
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  • By the winter of 1854, the men had been trapped for almost two years, their ship frozen in a bank of ice somewhere below the North Pole. Some had lost limbs to scurvy and frostbite; some had succumbed…
    Farthest North: Americas First Arctic Hero and His Horrible, Wonderful Voyage to the Frozen Top of the World

    Farthest North: Americas First Arctic Hero and His Horrible, Wonderful Voyage to the…

    By Todd Balf rating of short cover   ( 1 customer rating) Byliner Inc., April 2012 ISBN: 9781614520290 Language:  English
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  • His two companions dead, food and supplies vanished in a crevasse, Douglas Mawson was still one hundred miles from camp.On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the…
    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 rating of short cover   ( 131 customer ratings) W. W. Norton & Company, January 2013 ISBN: 9780393089646 Language:  English
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  • The legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of HMS Endurance.You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is…
    Endurance

    Endurance

    By Frank Arthur Worsley rating of short cover   ( 1757 customer ratings) W. W. Norton & Company, April 1999 ISBN: 9780393343342 History, Polar Regions Language:  English
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  • "Nail-biting true adventure."--Kirkus ReviewsIn 1909, two men laid rival claims to this crown jewel of exploration. A century later, the battle rages still. This book is about one of the most enduring…
    True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole

    True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole

    By Bruce Henderson rating of short cover   ( 74 customer ratings) W. W. Norton & Company, February 2006 ISBN: 9780393344660 History, Polar Regions Language:  English
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  • Roald Amundsen records his race to be the first man to reach the South Pole. Amundsen's expertise enabled him to succeed where his predecessors, and competitors, did not. His rival Captain Robert F…
    The South Pole

    The South Pole - An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram…

    By Captain Roald Amundsen rating of short cover   ( 106 customer ratings) Cooper Square Press, November 2000 ISBN: 9781461732044 Language:  English
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  • "Simply Compelling" -- Mordecai RichlerAvailable for the first time as an e-book, Frozen in Time tells the dramatic story of how Sir John Franklin's elite naval forces came within sight of the…
    Frozen in Time

    Frozen in Time - The Fate of the Franklin Expedition

    By John Geiger, Owen Beattie rating of short cover   ( 278 customer ratings) Greystone Books Ltd., September 2012 ISBN: 9781771004510 Language:  English
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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…
    The Ice Balloon

    The Ice Balloon - S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration

    By Alec Wilkinson rating of short cover   ( 214 customer ratings) Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, January 2012 ISBN: 9780307957696 Language:  English
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  • Irishman Francis Crozier was a major figure in nineteenth-century polar exploration. His voyages with Parry, Ross and Franklin lifted the veil from the frozen wastes of the Arctic and Antarctic…
    Captain Francis Crozier: Last Man Standing?

    Captain Francis Crozier: Last Man Standing?

    By Michael Smith The Collins Press, June 2006 ISBN: 9781848899865 Modern, 19th Century Language:  English
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  • Long at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map of the world, the Arctic has found its way to the center of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the…
    The Future History of the Arctic

    The Future History of the Arctic

    By Charles Emmerson rating of short cover   ( 44 customer ratings) PublicAffairs, March 2010 ISBN: 9780786746248 History, Polar Regions Language:  English
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