In an account rich with illustrations, John Hoffecker traces the history of anatomical adaptations, diet modifications, ......more

These travellers tales have one thing in common: they are true. Antarctica is the driest, the windiest, the highest con......more

When Sir Ernest Shackleton s dreams of crossing Antarctica foundered with his ship Endurance in the ice of the Weddell S......more

But readers of Mountie in Mukluks will soon realize they are in the presence of one of the most un-cop-like cops who eve......more

Compiled from papers delivered at the third annual Kent State University Symposium on Democracy held in spring 2002, Dem......more

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such a......more

The view has emerged that the Inuit were coerced by the Canadian government into abandoning life in scattered camps for ......more

1930. With 74 illustrations and maps. If only by virtue of his having stood over both Poles, Admiral Byrd stands apart f......more

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Many have told the story of Sir Robert Scott’s dramatic and, ultimately, tragic race to the South Pole. But in The Last ......more

From the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone o......more

In the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole ran rampant. Was it an open sea? Was it a portal to new worlds ......more

When Admiral Richard E. Byrd set out on his second Antarctic expedition in 1934, he was already an international hero fo......more

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One of the century’s most spectacular archaeological finds occurred in 1921, a year before Howard Carter stumbled upon T......more

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For the last decade, Gretel Ehrlich has been obsessed by an island, a terrain, a culture, and the treacherous beauty of ......more

These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale. So penned Captain Robert Falcon Scott in 1912 as he confronte......more

They are watching us, these ghosts of the North. They cook breakfast, play cards, mine gold, turn on radios, and play th......more

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In the 1830s, the forbidding Antarctic region represented the ultimate mystery. The prospect of discovering a lucrative ......more

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One helluva read. --Newsweek - Gripping. --Outside - Spellbinding. --Associated Press - Powerful. --New York In 1912,......more

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Inconstant and forbidding, the arctic lured misguided voyagers into the cold for centuries--pushing them beyond the limi......more

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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 t......more

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Critical forces of culture and nature collide in this comprehensive history of Ellesmere Island in the age of contact. S......more

Launched as part of the United States participation in the first International Polar Year, the Greely Arctic Expedition ......more

The eighteenth century--the Age of Reason--was characterized by determined attempts by philosophers, scientists, and pol......more

Examines how naval aviator Richard Byrd, explorer Donald MacMillan, and Zenith Radio founder Eugene McDonald successfull......more

Based on over fifteen years of research, Antarctica Unveiled tells the story of Robert Falcon Scott s first Antarctic ......more

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In 1860, fifteen years after Sir John Franklin s ill-fated expedition disappeared in the Arctic, a Cincinnati businessma......more

"You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassab......more

The dramatic story of explorer Douglas Mawson and "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history"......more

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic moder......more

Although the Antarctic ice pack and some offshore islands had been sighted and even landed upon briefly as early as the ......more

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In 1893, Fridjtof Nansen set sail in the Fram, a ship specially designed and built to be frozen into the polar ice cap, ......more

Adventures in the Antarctic only happen when someone makes a mistake. --From the Preface In 1956, John C. Behrendt had ......more

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NATIONAL BEST SELLER - A riveting account of Shackleton’s famed Antarctic expedition, recounting one of the last great a......more

His destination Antarctica, his expectations high, veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton set out, on the eve of the Fir......more

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It is now generally accepted the Leif Eriksson sailed from Greenland across the Davis Strait and made landfalls on the N......more

Warren G. Magnuson served as U.S. senator from the state of Washington for six terms. The sheer sweep of his accomplishm......more

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In 1868 American explorer Charles Francis Hall interviewed several Inuit hunters who spoke of strangers travelling throu......more

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