Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at ...
 Should be titled "The Search for the Story of Four Against the Arctic": This book is NOT the story of the four Russian sailors shipwrecked for four years in the Arctic. It is the story of the author researching the story of the four Russians. [... more]
$25.00
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The Last Voyage of the Karluk: A Survivor's Memoir of ...
Amazon.com Review: On April 23, 1913, 24-year-old William McKinlay, a teacher of mathematics and science in Scotland, was finishing dinner when a telegram arrived. Legendary Canadian explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, it explained, was planning a four-year [... more]
$12.95
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Barren Lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North ...
One of the most memorable books I have read: It has been a number of years since I bought and read Barren Lands. Although I greatly enjoyed the book while I read it, I appreciate it even more now because it has left me with many vivid memories of tales [... more]
$26.00
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In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in ...
Amazon.com Review: In the early 20th-century era of daring polar exploration, the less-trumpeted fishing and hunting expeditions went largely unrecorded. Except, that is, for a recently discovered tale about a Russian hunter and his shipmate. Valerian [... more]
$14.95
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Big-Enough Anna: The Little Sled Dog Who Braved Th
Exquisite, no matter what your age: This exquisitely illustrated book is based on the true story of a litle sled dog who rose to the occasion and became a hero in her own right. Anna, a small Alaskan Husky female, was judged too small to be of any use [... more]
$8.95
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South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition, ...
Excellent: I was fortunate that I could follow Shakelton on T.V. while reading and viewing these excellent pictures. This book is outstanding and I would urge anyone interested in either Shakelton or photography to get it. I could not help but think that [... more]
$50.00
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Arctic Dreams
Amazon.com Review: Based on 15 extended trips to the Canadian far north over a five-year period, Arctic Dreams celebrates the mysteries of what documentarians fondly call "last frontiers." Such places are everywhere in danger of destruction in [... more]
$15.00
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Worst Journey in the World (NG Adventure Classics)
Amazon.com Review: As Apsley Cherry-Garrard states in his introduction to the harrowing story of the Scott expedition to the South Pole, "Polar Exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.& [... more]
$16.00
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A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic
Beautifully illustrated, elegantly written: This book is a "must have" for the advanced undergraduate, beginning grad student, or serious amateur naturalist interested in the North. While a combination of other books may be more comprehensive, [... more]
$22.00
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Arctic Crossing: One Man's 2,000-Mile Odyssey Among the ...
Amazon.com Review: When Jonathan Waterman set out to cross the Arctic Circle by way of kayak, cross-country skis, and a dogsled, he was less interested in conquering the 2,200 miles between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans than in learning to live as the [... more]
$16.95
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Kabloona: Among the Inuit (Graywolf Rediscovery Series)
Haunting and wonderful: My good friend and I were talking a while back after I had watched the movie The Fast Runner, which he had recommended. Talk got around to my deciding to send him my old childhood copy (out of print, I believe) of Peter Freuchen's [... more]
$14.95
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Frost on my Moustache: The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and ...
Amazon.com Review: In the 1850s, a wealthy British philanthropist by the name of Lord Dufferin sailed his yacht into the Arctic Circle and wrote the bestselling travelogue Letters from High Latitudes. In the 1990s, British writer Tim Moore decided to [... more]
$13.95
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