Swimming to Antarctica
Lynne Cox was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Los Alamitos, California, where she still lives. Her articles have appeard in The New Yorker and the Los Angeles Times Magazine, among other publications. Grayson is Lynne Cox's first ... [... more]
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Sir Edmund Hillary
MAWSON'S WILL is the dramatic story of what Sir Edmund Hillary calls "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history." For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced some of the most daunting conditions ever known to man: .. [... more]
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Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuisine and the music ... [... more]
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Alison Anderson
In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prove even more disastrous. In search of new Arctic ... [... more]
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Lennard Bickel
MAWSON'S WILL is the dramatic story of what Sir Edmund Hillary calls "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history." For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced some of the most daunting conditions ever known to man: .. [... more]
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Online Nurseries 2002 - WorldPlants.com - page 2
Orchids are found all over the world; everywhere but Antarctica. The family Orchidaceae contains between seven hundred fifty and fourteen hundred genera and between eighteen and twenty-five thousand species (depending on resource). Most of these ... [... more]
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Shmuley Boteach
Are you tired of the dating game? Do you fear never finding that special someone? Don't give up hope. Just when you begin to dream of moving to Antarctica, or making your pet your lifelong companion, Shmuley Boteach can help you experience the ... [... more]
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Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
 From Amazon.com: When explorers such as Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, and Robert Falcon Scott all set off to Antarctica in the early years of the 20th century, the polar regions were among the last truly unexplored areas of the world--and arguably [... more]
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Skating To Antarctica
From Amazon.com: "I am not entirely content with the degree of whiteness in my life. My bedroom is white: white walls, icy mirrors, white sheets and pillowcases, white slatted blinds. It's the best I could do." Jenny Diski's obsession with the [... more]
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End of the Earth: Voyaging to Antarctica
This book could drive you to the end of the Earth...: Leave it to Peter Matthiessen to take the last great place on earth and write about it with the same degree of enthusiasm he would have if he were reporting on a geriatric field trip to Wal-Mart. From [... more]
CDN$42.00
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End of the Earth: Voyaging to Antarctica
This book could drive you to the end of the Earth...: Leave it to Peter Matthiessen to take the last great place on earth and write about it with the same degree of enthusiasm he would have if he were reporting on a geriatric field trip to Wal-Mart. From [... more]
CDN$22.50
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The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica
From Amazon.com: In The Crystal Desert David Campbell weaves together travelogue gathered from his many visits to the wind-blasted continent of Antarctica, along with natural history, oceanography, and accounts of the tortured attempts of earlier [... more]
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