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  • Arctic Dreams

    by Barry Lopez ...
    This New York Times–bestselling exploration of the Arctic, a National Book Award winner, is “one of the finest books ever written about the far North” (Publishers Weekly).“The nation’s premier nature writer” travels to a landscape at once barren and beautiful, perilous and alluring, austere yet teeming with vibrant life, and shot through with human history (San Francisco Chronicle). The Arctic has ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Snow Petrel

    (A father-son voyage to the windiest place on the planet)

    by Jon Tucker ...
    When Ben Tucker and his kid brother Matt decided to sail south in search of icebergs on Ben's small home-built kiwi sloop, their father Jon was allowed to come along as their cabin-boy, on a promise of good behaviour.The unfolding adventure took them through thick pack ice to become trapped at the windiest place on the planet, a remote location in East Antarctica.'Snow Petrel' is proof of what ... Read more

    $5.66 USD

  • True North

    Travels in Arctic Europe

    by Gavin Francis ...
    A journey through the far north from the Shetland Islands to Greenland and beyond: “A wonder-voyage . . . often beautiful” (Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland).The stark, vast beauty of the remote landscape of Arctic Europe has been the focus of human exploration for thousands of years. In this striking blend of travel writing, history, and mythology, Gavin Francis offers a unique portrait of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • THE WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD ANTARCTIC 1910-1913

    The Great True Adventure Story, A Linked Index of all Editions, With Panoramas, Maps, And Illustrations

    With Panoramas, Maps, And Illustrations By The LateDoctor Edward A. Wilson And Other Members Of The ExpeditionIN TWO VOLUMESThe Worst Journey in the World, by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922) As War and Peace is to novels, so is The Worst Journey in the World to the literature of polar travel: the one to beat. The author volunteered as a young man to go to the Antarctic with Robert Falcon Scott in ... Read more

    $4.88 USD

  • Woman, Captain, Rebel

    The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain

    A daring and magnificent historical narrative nonfiction account of Iceland's most famous female sea captain who constantly fought for women's rights and equality—and who also solved one of the country's most notorious robberies.Every day was a fight for survival, equality, and justice for Iceland's most renowned female fishing captain of the 19th century.History would have us believe the sea has ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Forgotten Footprints: Lost Stories in the Discovery of Antarctica

    by John Harrison ...
    A mix of history, geography, myth, and personal truth, this book explores the Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetland Islands, and the Weddell Sea—the most visited places in Antarctica. Filled with beautiful photographs by the author from his travels, this record offers a selection of anecdotal accounts of the merchantmen, navy men, sealers, whalers, and aviators who, along with scientists and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Penguins: 101 Fun Facts & Amazing Pictures (Featuring The World's Top 8 Penguins)

    by Janet Evans ...
    This book depicts the wonder of the world of Penguins in all its glory. Children are given a well-rounded understanding of this fascinating creature: its anatomy, feeding habits and behavior. The following penguins are featured: * The fierce Adelie Penguin * The comical African Penguin * The awesome Emperor Penguin * The strange Galapagos Penguin * The regal King Penguin * The beautiful Little ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Alaska Days with John Muir

    In the summer of 1879 I was stationed at Fort Wrangell in southeastern Alaska, whence I had come the year before, a green young student fresh from college and seminary – very green and very fresh – to do what I could towards establishing the white man's civilization among the Thlinget Indians. I had very many things to learn and many more to unlearn. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Toward Antarctica

    An Exploration

    “The most original piece of travel writing about the Antarctic region I have read in years . . . Bradfield is a literary tour guide in the best sense.” —Elizabeth Leane, author of Antarctica in Fiction: Imaginative Narratives of the Far SouthA poet and a naturalist, Elizabeth Bradfield documents and examines her work as a guide on ships in Antarctica through poetry, prose, and photographs, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alaska Sampler 2014

    Ten Authors from the Great Land: Fiction - Biography - Memoir - Humor

    Would the real Alaska please stand up?  This was the challenge put to ten of Alaska’s finest authors: to share unique and intimate perspectives—some previously published, some new to this volume—that reach beyond the usual stereotypes to an Alaska that can’t be packaged or staged.  These stories, musings, and rants come from authors whose roots run deep in the Far North. There’s Dana Stabenow, ... Read more

    Free

  • Antarctica Travel Guide - Tiki Travel

    by Tiki Travel ...
    Antarctica Travel Guide - Tiki TravelThe Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe.An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected.Table of contents:- Tiki Travel Guide Books- Copyright- Antarctica- Understand- Regions- Destinations- Talk- Get in- ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • My Life as an Explorer

    My Life as an Explorer is a classis of Polar literature, written by the one man to do more to further the exploration of both Polar Regions than any other person. First sailing to the Antarctic in the 1899 Belgian expedition, Amundsen never lost his passion for exploring, following this trip with a journey around the top of Canada to prove the existence of the North West Passage between 1903 and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Ultimate Island Travel: Greenland And Iceland

    Iceland – “The Land Of Fire And Ice”…… Greenland – “The Land of the Greenlanders”……Two very beautiful and unusual places to see......Some of the subjects discussed in the book:When To Go To Iceland, Main Towns In Iceland, Things To See And Do In Iceland, When To Go To Greenland, Largest Glaciers, Main Towns In Greenland, Things To See And Do In Greenland, Festival Of Snow Sculptures and of course ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • So, How Long Have You Been Native?

    Life as an Alaska Native Tour Guide

    So, How Long Have You Been Native? is Alexis C. Bunten’s firsthand account of what it is like to work in the Alaska cultural tourism industry. An Alaska Native and anthropologist, she spent two seasons working for a tribally owned tourism business that markets the Tlingit culture in Sitka. Bunten’s narrative takes readers through the summer tour season as she is hired and trained and eventually ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Log of a Limejuicer

    The experiences under sail of JAMES P. BARKER Master Mariner as told to Roland Barker

    This book recounts the travels of a "Limejuicer" - a British mariner - who spent forty-four years in command of square riggers and steam vessels and traveled around Cape Horn forty-one times.Readers who enjoyed an apprentice’s recollections of the ship the British Isles’ horrendous 1905 voyage around the Horn in The Cape Horn Breed may find this perspective from the Captain of that voyage of ... Read more

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  • Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska

    by Hudson Stuck ...
    THIS volume deals with a series of journeys taken with a dog team over the winter trails in the interior of Alaska. The title might have claimed fourteen or fifteen thousand miles instead of ten, for the book was projected and the title adopted some years ago, and the journeys have continued. But ten thousand is a good round titular number, and is none the worse for being well within the mark. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Let's Explore the North Pole

    Arctic Exploration and Expedition

    Series series Children's Explore the World Books
    The North Pole is a mysterious place that's mostly covered with snow. There are only a few animals that dare live in this very cold place. Turn the pages of this book to learn about the North Pole. Coloring books is a valuable learning resource that carefully selects information to ensure optimum information absorption. Grab a copy of this coloring book today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Penguins - Meet Mr. Flappy Feet

    Penguin Books for Kids

    Series series Children's Bird Books
    Penguins are fantastic creatures. They have a unique familial system, wherein the mother hunts for food while the father warms the egg. What's even more interesting is how they find a partner and "marry" that person for life. Turn the pages of this book for many more interesting facts on penguins. Buy a copy today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Lonely Planet Antarctica

    Series series Travel Guide
    Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherLonely Planet Antarcticais your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Get up close and personal with the local penguin populations, cruise the picture-perfect Lemaire Channel, or pay a visit to Ernest Shackleton's eerily preserved hut,all with your trusted travel ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Big Dead Place

    Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica

    Johnson’s savagely funny [book] is a grunt’s-eye view of fear and loathing, arrogance and insanity in a dysfunctional, dystopian closed community. It’s like M*A*S*H on ice, a bleak, black comedy.”—The Times of London ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Field Of Ice

    by Jules Verne ...
    An exhilarating narrative of an obsessed British expediter by Jules Verne. This northward excursion led by Captain Hatteras is full of life-threatening adventures and hair-breadth escapes of him and his crew. As he discovers the truth about the polar terrain this work presents amazing possibilities. A bitter-sweet ending awaits the readers in this mind-boggling thriller! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Wilder Time

    Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice

    JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED NATURAL HISTORY BOOKA scientist experiences primordial wonders and the wisdom of solitude in one of Earth’s wildest and most endangered placesGreenland, one of the last truly wild places, contains a treasure trove of information on Earth’s early history embedded in its pristine landscape. Over numerous seasons, William E. Glassley and two fellow geologists ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World

    The Voyage Of The Beagle A new edition with illustrations by R. T. Pritchett of places visited and objects described. (with linked TOC)

    A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World : The Voyage of the Beagle, Plus Journal of Researches into the  Natural History and Geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the world of H.M.S. Beagle     by Charles Darwin (1839) The grand old man of modern biology was a gentleman of leisure, a crack shot, and no scientist when, at 22, he boarded the Beagle for its long survey voyage to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Worst Journey in the World

    At the age of twenty-four, Apsley Cherry-Garrard was one of the youngest members of the Terra Nova expedition. This was Robert F. Scott’s second attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole. Cherry’s application to join the expedition was initially rejected as Scott was looking for scientists, but he made a second application along with a promise of £1,000 (equivalent to £103,000 in 2019) ... Read more

    $7.40 USD or Free with Kobo Plus