While reading Valerian Albanov's In the Land of White Death, David Roberts came across the mention of an old legend of four shipwrecked Russian sailors who had managed to survive six years stranded on…
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David Roberts
Simon & Schuster, June 2008
ISBN: 9780743253703
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En Finlande, terre éloignée, vaste et injustement méconnue. Pourtant les mots Laponie, aurore boréale, Père Noël ou Nokia vous diront forcément quelque chose. Malgré la rudesse de son climat, elle…
For most of his life, an explorer fought to conquer the North PoleOn March 1, 1909, only 413 miles of treacherous ice separated Robert E. Peary from realizing his lifelong dream of becoming the first…
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George W. Melville
Digital Scanning Inc., March 2001
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Wilhelm Weike, a 23-year old handyman from Minden/Germany, accidentally found himself spending the year of 1883-84 among Inuit and wintering with whalers on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. The…
A vivid, unforgettable account of the danger, pain, and joy of working on a salmon fishing boat and living in a small village on the farthest edge of Alaska Set in the tiny Native village of Egegik…
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Bill Carter
Scribner, May 2008
ISBN: 9781416566045
Fish & Ocean Life, Fish
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In 2005, Australians Chris Bray (then 21 years old) and Clark Carter (20) dreamed of embarking on an adventure completely different from any polar, mountaineering, or river expedition ever before…
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Chris Bray
Murdoch Books, November 2010
ISBN: 9781742663067
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“The fine snow choked his eyes, ears, and throat, and he did not hear his own smothered death cry. Down in cold blackness, 150 feet down, his falling body smashed into a projecting ledge of ironclad…
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Cecil Kuhne
Vintage, May 2011
ISBN: 9780307793720
Travel, Polar Regions
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An exhilarating narrative of an obsessed British expediter by Jules Verne. This northward excursion led by Captain Hatteras is full of life-threatening adventures and hair-breadth escapes of him and…
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Jules Verne
ReadHowYouWant, April 2009
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In the summer of 1879 I was stationed at Fort Wrangell in southeastern Alaska, whence I had come the year before, a green young student fresh from college and seminary – very green and very fresh – to…
