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  • Overland to Starvation Cove

    With the Inuit in Search of Franklin, 1878-1880

    Series series Heritage
    In May 1845 Sir John Franklin sailed westward from England in search of the Northwest Passage and was never seen again. Some thirty-five years later, Heinrich Klutschak of Prague, artist and surveyor on a small expedition led by Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka of the 3rd US Cavalry Regiment, stumbled upon the grisly remains at Starvation Cove of the last survivors among Franklin's men.Overland to ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A Frenchman in Search of Franklin

    De Bray's Arctic Journal, 1852-54

    Translated by William Barr ...
    Series series Heritage
    In April 1852 Emile Frederic de Bray sailed down the Thames on board the Resolute, part of Sie Edward Belcher's Arctic Squadron in search of Sir John Franklin and his men, missing since the summer of 1845. De Bray's diaries of his years with Resolute have not been published before, in any language, and only one other account of this particular Franklin search expedition exists.Enseigne-de-vaisseau ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Endurance

    The legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of HMS Endurance.You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. "What the ice gets," replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's unflappable leader, "the ice keeps." ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Bottom of the Map

    A history of the Falklands and all other subantarctic islands with tales of exploration, shipwreck and war. These are the ultimate faraway places. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The South Pole

    An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912

    Roald Amundsen records his race to be the first man to reach the South Pole. Amundsen's expertise enabled him to succeed where his predecessors, and competitors, did not. His rival Captain Robert F. Scott not only failed to reach the Pole first, but—due to poor preparation and miscalculation—died with the rest of his party on their return trip. The South Pole remains one of the greatest and most ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • In the Land of White Death

    An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic

    Translated by Alison Anderson ...
    Series series Modern Library Exploration
    “One helluva read.”—Newsweek • “Gripping.”—Outside • “Spellbinding.”—Associated Press • “Powerful.”—New YorkIn 1912, the Saint Anna, a Russian exploration vessel in search of fertile hunting grounds, was frozen into the polar ice cap, trapping her crew aboard. For nearly a year and a half, they struggled to stay alive. As all hope of rescue faded, they realized their best chance of survival might ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The mystery of the Cache Creek Murders

    A Perfect Crime In Alaska

    In 1939, four brutal murders occurred at three separate locations on a single day in “Cache Creek country,” a remote Alaska gold-mining region near Talkeetna. Two of the victims, Dick Francis and Frank Jenkins, had mined there for almost three decades, but disputes over mining claims in the 1930s launched the two men into protracted court battles and an arena of antagonism. By 1938, when Francis' ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ice Master

    The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk

    The Karluk set out in 1913 in search of an undiscovered continent, with the largest scientific staff ever sent into the Arctic. Soon after, winter had begun, they were blown off course by polar storms, the ship became imprisoned in ice, and the expedition was abandoned by its leader. Hundreds of miles from civilization, the castaways had no choice but to find solid ground as they struggled against ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Edge of the World

    Ross Island, Antarctica A Personal and Historical Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, Tragedy, and Survival

    Writer and explorer Charles Neider made his first trip to Antarctica in 1969, achieving a lifelong goal of seeing the frozen continent with his own eyes. During this visit and a return trip in 1970, both backed by the U. S. Navy and the National Science Foundation, Neider discovered the rigor and beauty of life so close to the South Pole. In addition to his own experiences, Edge of the World also ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Grettir's Saga

    Series series Heritage
    Profound and intriguing, Grettir's Saga is the last of the great Icelandic sagas. It tells of the life and death of Grettir, a great rebel, individualist, and romantic hero viewed unromantically. Grettir spends his childhood violently defying authority: as a youth of sixteen he kills a man and is outlawed; all the rest of his life he devotes, with remarkable composure, to fighting more and more ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • South

    The Endurance Expedition

    As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole. But their initial optimism was short-lived as ice floes closed around their ship, gradually crushing it and marooning 28 men on the polar ice. Alone in the world's most unforgiving environment, Shackleton and his team began a brutal quest for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Faces of the North

    The Ethnographic Photography of John Honigmann

    by Bryan Cummins ...
    John J. Honigmann was an anthropologist of rare energy and talent. In addition to writing numerous books and dozens of articles, he is the only anthropologist whose research and field experience extend across the three northern culture areas of Canada – the Western Subarctic, the Eastern Subarctic and the Arctic. Faces of the North presents a record of exceptionally high quality photographs ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ships of Wood and Men of Iron

    A Norwegian-Canadian Saga of Exploration in the High Arctic

    by Gerard Kenney ...
    In the barren lands of Canada far north of the Arctic circle, summers are quick and cool, mere short interruptions in the true business of the polar regions, winter. Winters there can be dangerous with temperatures that plunge to awesome depths during the long, lonely hours of Arctic darkness. Powerful blizzards shriek across the land for days at a time, causing all animal life to seek shelter ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole

    "Nail-biting true adventure."--Kirkus ReviewsIn 1909, two men laid rival claims to this crown jewel of exploration. A century later, the battle rages still. This book is about one of the most enduring and vitriolic feuds in the history of exploration. "What a consummate cur he is," said Robert Peary of Frederick Cook in 1911. Cook responded, "Peary has stooped to every crime from rape to murder." ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Dangerous Passage

    Issues in the Arctic

    by Gerard Kenney ...
    Over the five hundred or so years that man searched for an elusive sea passage from Europe to Asia through the North American land mass, dozens of ships were lost and hundreds of mariners died. Eventually, a sea route stretching through the waters of the archipelago and along Canada’s mainland Arctic coast was pieced together. But could ships navigate the Northwest Passage to the extent that it ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Gentleman Adventurer

    Coming of Age in the Arctic

    "This is a great book about life at remote bases in Canada's far north as seen by a young English boy who went there by himself to see the world and got more than he could have bargained for. Beautifully written." --Sir Ranulph Fiennes"As spare, gleaming, and exhilarating as the Arctic wastes and the gentle, stoic Eskimos who had mastery of this realm . . . The book evokes the frozen seas, whale ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lost Men

    The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party

    The untold story of the last odyssey of the heroic age of Antarctic explorationSir Ernest Shackletons 1914 Antarctic endeavor is legend, but for sheer heroism and tragic nobility, nothing compares to the saga of the Ross Sea party. This crew of explorers landed on the opposite side of Antarctica from the Endurance with a mission to build supply depots for Shackletons planned crossing of the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Footsteps on the Ice

    The Antarctic Diaries of Stuart D. Paine, Second Byrd Expedition

    In 1933 Antarctica was essentially unexplored. Admiral Richard Byrd launched his Second Expedition to chart the southernmost continent, primarily relying on the muscle power of dog teams and their drivers who skied or ran beside the loaded sledges as they traveled. The life-threatening challenges of moving glaciers, invisible crevasses, and horrific storms compounded the difficulties of isolation, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Ninety Degrees North

    The Quest for the North Pole

    The author of Barrow’s Boys offers a fascinating look at the exploration of the Arctic in the nineteenth century.Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, the Seattle Times, Publishers Weekly, and TimeIn the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole ran rampant. Was it an open sea? Was it a portal to new worlds within the globe? Or was it just a wilderness of ice? ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bloody Falls of the Coppermine

    Madness and Murder in the Arctic Barren Lands

    by Mckay Jenkins ...
    In the winter of 1913, high in the Canadian Arctic, two Catholic priests set out on a dangerous mission to do what no white men had ever attempted: reach a group of utterly isolated Eskimos and convert them. Farther and farther north the priests trudged, through a frigid and bleak country known as the Barren Lands, until they reached the place where the Coppermine River dumps into the Arctic Ocean ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Farthest North

    The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer

    "If Outside magazine had been around during the first turn of the century, Fridtjof Nansen would have been its No. 1 cover boy."-The Chicago Sun-Times In September of 1893, Norwegian zoologist Fridtjof Nansen and crew manned the schooner Fram, intending to drift, frozen in the Arctic pack-ice, to the North Pole. When it became clear that they would miss the pole, Nansen and companion Hjalmar ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition

    The Voyage of the Nimrod

    Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition is the story of Ernest Shackleton's epic journey toward the South Pole. Lacking funds and plagued by hunger, cruel weather, and unpredictable terrain, Shackleton and his party accomplished some of the most remarkable feats in the history of exploration. Not only were members of the expedition the first to climb the active volcano Mount Erebus and the first to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Scott of the Antarctic

    A Biography

    by David Crane ...
    Historian David Crane, with full access to the explorer’s papers, diaries, and expedition records, gives us an illuminating portrait of Robert Falcon Scott that is more nuanced and balanced than any we have had before.In reassessing Scott’s life, Crane is able to provide a fresh perspective on not only the Discovery expedition of 1901—4 and the Terra Nova expedition of 1910—13, but his remarkable ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Trial by Ice

    The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition

    by Richard Parry ...
    “An extraordinary real-life adventure of men battling the elements and themselves, told with ice-cold precision.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred review)In the dark years following the Civil War, America’s foremost Arctic explorer, Charles Francis Hall, became a figure of national pride when he embarked on a harrowing, landmark expedition. With financial backing from Congress and the personal support of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD