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Life Among the Qallunaat

Life Among the Qallunaat

Mini Aodla Freeman’s extraordinary story, sometimes humourous and sometimes heartbreaking, illustrates an Inuit woman’s ......more

Life Among the Qallunaat

Life Among the Qallunaat

Life Among the Qallunaat is the story of Mini Aodla Freeman’s experiences growing up in the Inuit communities of James B......more

Polar Voyages

Polar Voyages

On a blustery, West Highland summer’s day in the early 1950s, a black-hulled mail steamer ploughed its way northwards fr......more

A collection of documents on Spitzbergen and Greenland

A collection of documents on Spitzbergen and Greenland

A collection of documents on Spitzbergen and Greenland. This book, "A collection of documents on Spitzbergen and Greenla......more

South! The Story of Shackleton’’s Last Expedition 1914-1917

South! The Story of Shackleton’’s Last Expedition 1914-1917

Unabridged. 97 original photographs and maps. An epic account of one of the most extraordinary feats of physical and men......more

South! The Story of Shackleton’’s Last Expedition 1914-1917

South! The Story of Shackleton’’s Last Expedition 1914-1917

Unabridged. 97 original photographs and maps. An epic account of one of the most extraordinary feats of physical and men......more

From Pole to Pole: Roald Amundsena’s Journey in Flight

From Pole to Pole: Roald Amundsena’s Journey in Flight

Roald Amundsen was the most successful polar explorer of his era using sledges, dogs, skis, and ships. He is mainly reme......more

Flaws in the Ice: In Search of Douglas Mawson

Flaws in the Ice: In Search of Douglas Mawson

Douglas Mawson was determined to make his mark on Antarctica as no other explorer had done before him. What really happe......more

The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture

The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture

In the late 1800s, "Arctic Fever" swept across the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to the Arctic t......more

Eden of the North

Eden of the North

These first hand accounts of Greenlanders have rarely been recorded. Written in 1887, with exquisite poetic detail, the ......more

Polar Winds: A Century of Flying the North

Polar Winds: A Century of Flying the North

With historical research and rare interviews, explore the highs and lows of aviation north of the 60th parallel. This jo......more

Ice Ship: The Epic Voyages of the Polar Adventurer Fram

Ice Ship: The Epic Voyages of the Polar Adventurer Fram

In the golden age of polar exploration (from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s), many an expedition set out to answer the......more

The Expedition: The Forgotten Story of a Polar Tragedy

The Expedition: The Forgotten Story of a Polar Tragedy

In 1897 three men disappeared in the North Pole only now have their final hours been revealed with this award-winning fo......more

The Hard Way Home: Alaska Stories of Adventure, Friendship, and the Hunt

The Hard Way Home: Alaska Stories of Adventure, Friendship, and the Hunt

A lifelong Alaskan, Steve Kahn moved at the age of nine from the metropolis of Anchorage to the foothills of the Chuga......more

Eskimo Life (1894)

Eskimo Life (1894)

Eskimo Life is a book written by Fridtjof Nansen and published in 1894. The book provides a detailed and fascinating acc......more

The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912

The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912

On 14 December 1911, Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) and his Norwegian team became the first humans to reach the South Pole, ......more

The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912

The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912

On 14 December 1911, Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) and his Norwegian team became the first humans to reach the South Pole, ......more

The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History

The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History

Stranded in a stormy corner of the North Atlantic midway between Norway and Iceland, the Faroe Islands are part of the ......more

Forgotten Footprints: Lost Stories in the Discovery of Antarctica

Forgotten Footprints: Lost Stories in the Discovery of Antarctica

A mix of history, geography, myth, and personal truth, this book explores the Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetland Is......more

Operation Tabarin: Britain’s Secret Wartime Expedition to Antarctica, 1944-46

Operation Tabarin: Britain’s Secret Wartime Expedition to Antarctica, 1944-46

Full of extraordinary characters, this tale of a secret mission is based upon previously unpublished diarires, letters, ......more

Empire of Extinction: Russians and the North Pacific’s Strange Beasts of the Sea, 1741-1867

Empire of Extinction: Russians and the North Pacific’s Strange Beasts of the Sea, 1741-1867

In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Russian Empire-already the largest on earth-expanded its dominion onto......more

Overcoming Pakistan’s Nuclear Dangers

Overcoming Pakistan’s Nuclear Dangers

Pakistan s nuclear arsenal - the fastest growing in the world - raises concerns on many grounds. Although far from the s......more

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

On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hau......more

Food Security in Asia: Challenges, Policies and Implications

Food Security in Asia: Challenges, Policies and Implications

The spike in global food prices in 2007-08 not only led to riots on several continents; it also reawakened fears about t......more

Perdu Sous La Banquise: L’histoire Du Hms Investigator

Perdu Sous La Banquise: L’histoire Du Hms Investigator

L histoire de l quip e du HMS Investigator et de la r cente d couverte de son pave par une quipe d arch ologues subaqua......more

In the Shadow of the Pole: An Early History of Arctic Expeditions, 1871-1912

In the Shadow of the Pole: An Early History of Arctic Expeditions, 1871-1912

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

Arctic Opening: Insecurity and Opportunity

Arctic Opening: Insecurity and Opportunity

The Arctic is opening. Global warming is leading to seasonal sea-ice retreat, which in turn opens hitherto impassable sh......more

Life in the Cold: An Introduction to Winter Ecology

Life in the Cold: An Introduction to Winter Ecology

Peter J. Marchand’s Life in the Cold remains the one book that offers a comprehensive picture of the interactions of pla......more

Chasing Shackleton: Re-Creating the World’s Greatest Journey of Survival

Chasing Shackleton: Re-Creating the World’s Greatest Journey of Survival

"Mr. Jarvis’s tribute to Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition has had a danger and heroism that are worthy of the or......more

Power from the North: Territory, Identity, and the Culture of Hydroelectricity in Quebec

Power from the North: Territory, Identity, and the Culture of Hydroelectricity in Quebec

In the 1970s, Hydro-Quebec declared in a publicity campaign We Are Hydro-Quebecois. The slogan symbolized the intimate......more

Russia’s Arctic Strategies and the Future of the Far North

Russia’s Arctic Strategies and the Future of the Far North

This book offers the first comprehensive examination of Russia’s Arctic strategy, ranging from climate change issues and......more

Russia’s Arctic Strategies and the Future of the Far North

Russia’s Arctic Strategies and the Future of the Far North

This book offers the first comprehensive examination of Russia’s Arctic strategy, ranging from climate change issues and......more

Eismitte in the Scientific Imagination: Knowledge and Politics at the Center of Greenland

Eismitte in the Scientific Imagination: Knowledge and Politics at the Center of Greenland

Since the 18th century, Greenland’s geometric center, Eismitte, has been one of the most forbidding but scientifically r......more

Eismitte in the Scientific Imagination: Knowledge and Politics at the Center of Greenland

Eismitte in the Scientific Imagination: Knowledge and Politics at the Center of Greenland

Since the 18th century, Greenland’s geometric center, Eismitte, has been one of the most forbidding but scientifically r......more

Death Wins in the Arctic: The Lost Winter Patrol of 1910

Death Wins in the Arctic: The Lost Winter Patrol of 1910

A four-man patrol from the North West Mounted Police left Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories, heading for Dawson City......more

Lost Beneath the Ice: The Story of HMS Investigator

Lost Beneath the Ice: The Story of HMS Investigator

The story of the bold voyage of HMS Investigator and the modern-day discovery of its wreck by Parks Canada s underwater ......more

Of Maps and Men: The Mysterious Discovery of Antarctica

Of Maps and Men: The Mysterious Discovery of Antarctica

This story begins with Dr. Weihaupt s explorations in the deep unexplored interior of Antarctica and the questions they ......more

Leading on the Edge: Extraordinary Stories and Leadership Insights from the World’s Most Extreme Workplace

Leading on the Edge: Extraordinary Stories and Leadership Insights from the World’s Most Extreme Workplace

"In Leading on the Edge, successful business speaker and consultant Rachael Robertson shares the lessons she learned as ......more

1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica

1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica

"The South Pole discovered" trumpeted the front page of The Daily Chronicle on March 8, 1912, marking Roald Amundsen’s t......more

Paramount Newsreel Men with Admiral Byrd in Little America

Paramount Newsreel Men with Admiral Byrd in Little America

""Paramount Newsreel Men With Admiral Byrd In Little America"" is a non-fiction book written by Wallace West. The book i......more

Rear Admiral Byrd and the Polar Expeditions: With an Account of His Life and Achievements

Rear Admiral Byrd and the Polar Expeditions: With an Account of His Life and Achievements

""Rear Admiral Byrd And The Polar Expeditions: With An Account Of His Life And Achievements"" is a non-fiction book that......more

The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen

The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen

The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last cor......more

The Worst Journey in the World

The Worst Journey in the World

This gripping story of courage and achievement is an account of Robert Falcon Scott s last fateful expedition to the Ant......more

Antarctica: A Biography

Antarctica: A Biography

Since the first sailing ships spied the Antarctic coastline in 1820, the frozen continent has captured the world’s imagi......more

The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913

The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913

In 1910, hoping that the study of penguin eggs would provide an evolutionary link between birds and reptiles, a group of......more

Mawson: and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackelton and Amundsen

Mawson: and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackelton and Amundsen

Now available in paperback, the incredible story of Australia’s most famous polar explorer and the giants from the heroi......more

Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England’s Forgotten Arctic Explorer

Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England’s Forgotten Arctic Explorer

Gripping tales of survival, exploration, and discovery are told with humour and panache in the ripped-from-the-archives ......more

Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World

Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World

In 1743, a Russian ship was blown off course and trapped in ice off the coast of Svalbard (Spitzbergen), a barren Arctic......more

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

His two companions were dead, his food and supplies had vanished in a crevasse, and Douglas Mawson was still one hundred......more

Caribou Skin Clothing of the Iglulik Inuit

Caribou Skin Clothing of the Iglulik Inuit

Caribou Skin Clothing of the Iglulik Inuit outlines the various steps involved in the creation of traditional Inuit cari......more

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

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

In 1897, at the height of the heroic age of Arctic exploration, the visionary Swedish explorer S. A. Andr e made a revol......more

Forgotten Footprints: Lost Stories in the Discovery of Antarctica

Forgotten Footprints: Lost Stories in the Discovery of Antarctica

A history of the Antarctic Peninsula, South Shetland Islands and the Weddell Sea, John Harrison s book is a series of re......more

A History of the Arctic: Nature, Exploration and Exploitation

A History of the Arctic: Nature, Exploration and Exploitation

Bitter cold and constant snow. Polar bears, seals, and killer whales. Victor Frankenstein chasing his monstrous creation......more

Hoosh: Roast Penguin, Scurvy Day, and Other Stories of Antarctic Cuisine

Hoosh: Roast Penguin, Scurvy Day, and Other Stories of Antarctic Cuisine

Antarctica, the last place on Earth, is not famous for its cuisine. Yet it is famous for stories of heroic expeditions i......more

The Longest Winter: Scott’s Other Heroes

The Longest Winter: Scott’s Other Heroes

Through the eyes of the men involved, Meredith Hooper recounts one of the greatest tales of adventure and endurance, whi......more

The Antarctic: A Very Short Introduction

The Antarctic: A Very Short Introduction

The Antarctic is one the most hostile natural environments in the world, an extraordinary physical space which changes s......more

Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance: The Ghosts of the Franklin Expedition

Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance: The Ghosts of the Franklin Expedition

In 1845, John Franklin’s Northwest Passage expedition disappeared. The expedition left an archive of performative remain......more

Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance: The Ghosts of the Franklin Expedition

Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance: The Ghosts of the Franklin Expedition

In 1845, John Franklin’s Northwest Passage expedition disappeared. The expedition left an archive of performative remain......more

Irresistible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers

Irresistible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers

A century before Columbus arrived in America, two brothers from Venice are said to have explored parts of the New World.......more

The Entire Earth and Sky: Views on Antarctica

The Entire Earth and Sky: Views on Antarctica

More than a distant continent, Antarctica is a land of the imagination, shaping and shaped for centuries by explorers, a......more

Polar Wives: The Remarkable Women Behind the World’s Most Daring Explorers

Polar Wives: The Remarkable Women Behind the World’s Most Daring Explorers

Polar explorers were the superstars of the heroic age of exploration, a period spanning the Victorian and Edwardian er......more

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

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

In this grand and astonishing account, Alec Wilkinson brings us the story of S. A. Andree, the visionary Swedish aeronau......more

The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration, Library Edition

The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andree and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration, Library Edition

In this grand and astonishing account, Alec Wilkinson brings us the story of S. A. Andr e, the visionary Swedish aeronau......more

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