Charles Darwin spent the majority of his 1831-1836 voyage around the world in southern South America, and his early expe......more
The Southern Ocean is a wild and elusive place, an ocean like no other. With its waters lying between the Antarctic cont......more
It is common to think of the Arctic as remote, perched at the farthest reaches of the world--a simple and harmonious, is......more
It is common to think of the Arctic as remote, perched at the farthest reaches of the world--a simple and harmonious, is......more
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a "suspenseful" (WSJ) and "adrenali......more
Experience in the polar explorer’s own words, Ernest Shackleton’s thrilling yet ill-fated expedition on the ship Enduran......more
The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the most remarkable......more
In March 1914, two men began a perilous 700 mile walk across the barren ice fields of the Arctic Ocean to Siberia on a n......more
The Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1953-58, organized by Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary, was one of the most suc......more
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager, a thrilling and powerful true......more
In One Water the author takes us on a journey through the Alaskan wilderness to the streets of its second largest city i......more
In this third volume of In Those Days, Harper shares stories of the rise and fall of the whaling industry in the Eastern......more
The world’s sub-Antarctic islands are brutally cold, uninhabited, bleak and beautiful outposts circling the lower part o......more
Since the adoption of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959, Antarctica has been governed through a unique system of internationa......more
The heating Arctic has become a key issue in global politics. While Canada, China, Russia, and the United States increas......more
In the summer of 1881, Lt. Adolphus Greely of the Fifth United States Cavalry and a crew of twenty-one men set out on th......more
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As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing......more
Eskimo Life is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition . Hansebooks is editor of the literature on di......more
As a little girl in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Aalasi learned from her mother how to identify and harvest plants. Later, a mo......more
Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks......more
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How the fur trade changed the North and created the modern Arctic In the early twentieth century, northerners lived and ......more
William Speirs Bruce was a Scottish nationalist and naturalist who led the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-......more
This fascinating social history of polar expeditions examines the cultural trends that produced these daring, even reckl......more
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North Pole Legacy tells the story of two men whose existence was for decades nothing more than a popular legend. But tha......more
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The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York s Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twentie......more
"Intriguing [and] enjoyable." --Ian McGuire, New York Times Book Review...more
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The first comprehensive biography of Louise Arner Boyd -- the intrepid American socialite who reinvented herself as the ......more
In an age when polar exploration was akin to space exploration today, Sir John Franklin s journeys of discovery captured......more
A penetrating study of human character in a challenging environment. . . . David Welky s] seamless narrative, chilling a......more
In the Shadow of the Pole explains how the Arctic came to be part of Canada. In the Shadow of the Pole tells the history......more
In the Shadow of the Pole explains how the Arctic came to be part of Canada. In the Shadow of the Pole tells the history......more
The story of the world’s largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful,......more
Winner of the Inaugural Mohn Prize (2017) Winner of the William Mills Prize for nonfiction Polar Books (2014) The Meanin......more
The true story of Sir John Franklin s fateful expedition in HMS Erebus and HMS Terror of the North-West Passage in 1845,......more
Human Colonization of the Arctic: The Interaction Between Early Migration and the Paleoenvironment explores the relation......more
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In 1845, Sir John Franklin and his men set out to penetrate the icy fastness of the north, and to circumnavigate Americ......more
In Two Years Below the Horn, engineer Andrew Taylor vividly recounts his experiences and accomplishments during Operatio......more
In Two Years Below the Horn, engineer Andrew Taylor vividly recounts his experiences and accomplishments during Operatio......more
This creative nonfiction biography of the celebrated Arctic explorer Dr. John Rae begins in 1854 when, on a mapping expe......more
This report examines potential transformations that could alter Russia s current cooperative stance in the Arctic. It an......more
Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explor......more
Spanning nearly 200 years, Ice Ghosts is a fast-paced detective story about Western science, indigenous beliefs, and the......more
Spanning nearly 200 years, Ice Ghosts is a fast-paced detective story about Western science, indigenous beliefs, and the......more
In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Russian Empire-already the largest on earth-expanded its dominion onto......more
"A remarkable book," Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the greatest Polar explorer in our lifetime. Winner of multiple book and audio......more
The Technocratic Antarctic is an ethnographic account of the scientists and policymakers who work on Antarctica. In a pl......more
The Technocratic Antarctic is an ethnographic account of the scientists and policymakers who work on Antarctica. In a pl......more
Perpetually covered in ice and snow, the mountainous Antarctic Peninsula stretches southwardd towards the South Pole whe......more
Menadelook showcases nearly one hundred photographs taken by the Inupiat photographer Charles Menadelook that document l......more
Emil Bessels was chief scientist and medical officer on George Francis Hall’s ill-fated American North Pole Expedition o......more
The Unbelievable Story of Six Men Who Trekked Across the Great Ice Barrier in Support of Ernest Shackleton s Antarctic E......more
Prime Arctic predator and nomad of the sea ice and tundra, the polar bear endures as a source of wonder, terror, and fas......more
In 1943, Churchill s War Cabinet met to discuss the opening of a new front. Its battles would be fought amidst the glaci......more
In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, hundreds of miles from another human bein......more
"Turning to face north, face the north, we enter our own unconscious. Always, in retrospect, the journey north has the q......more
The 2014 discovery of HMS Erebus - a ship lost during Sir John Franklin s 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage ......more
Go now with Tom Crean to the Antarctic in 1901. See this strange new world as he sees it, experience the cold, the dange......more
Captain Woodfield made 20 seasonal voyages to the Antarctic on three research ships between 1955 and 1974. Starting as a......more
The North American Arctic was one of the last regions on Earth to be settled by humans, due to its extreme climate, limi......more
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And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore, ......more
In an era when segregation thrived and Jim Crow reigned supreme, adventurer Matthew A. Henson defied racial stereotypes.......more
In 2014 media around the world buzzed with news that an archaeological team from Parks Canada had located and identified......more
In April 1988, after years of failed negotiations over the status of the Northwest Passage, Brian Mulroney gave Ronald R......more
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To me, the hills are a landscape of brown on brown: hip-high, wind-blasted boulders ... To Adam, they are clues to milli......more
Published in 1915, Singnagtugaq: A Greenlanders Dream, created both furor and literary history as the first original nov......more
In Gilded Age America, Arctic explorers were fabulous celebrities--assured of riches and near-immortality so long as the......more
During the twentieth century, the Soviet Union turned the Kola Peninsula in the northwest corner of the country into one......more
Ernest Shackleton sailed to the South Pole as the First World War broke out in Europe, intent on making the first ever t......more
A geographer with extensive research experience in the Canadian North, Jack D. Ives has written a lively and informative......more
The catechist Johannes Hansen, called Hanserak, a Greenlandic missionary, was part of Captain Gustav Holm s well-known u......more
First published in 2001, Barren Lands is the classic true story of the men who sought--and found--a great diamond mine o......more
Ukkusiksalik, now a national park, was in earlier times the principal hunting ground for several Inuit families and was ......more
This collection of 15 chronologically arranged papers is the first-ever definitive treatment of the intellectual history......more
Among the explorers made famous for revealing hitherto impenetrable cultures-T. E. Lawrence and Wilfred Thesiger in the ......more
Ernest Shackleton is one of history s great explorers, an extraordinary character who pioneered the path to the South Po......more
Featuring an impressive team of expert commentators and illustrated with stunning photographs, this exceptional photogra......more
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and heroism in the Gilded Age from the New York Times be......more
American hero and explorer Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr. tells the story of his first journey through Antarctica and the ......more
In 1933 Antarctica was essentially unexplored. Admiral Richard Byrd launched his Second Expedition to chart the southern......more
Life Among the Qallunaat is the story of Mini Aodla Freeman’s experiences growing up in the Inuit communities of James B......more