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Where Is the North Pole?
$7.99 Add to cartYoung armchair adventurers can travel to the topmost point on the globe and learn all about the vast region surrounding the North Pole.
From the #1 New York Times Best-Selling Who Was? series comes Wh- Series: Where Is?
- Author: Stine, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0593093240
- Language: English
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The Greely Expedition’s Fatal Quest for Farthest North
$8.99 Read moreIn 1881, U.S. Army Lieutenant Adolphus Greely and his crew set sail for the Arctic. Their mission was to collect scientific data on the polar climate. They also had a second, secret goal: to achieve F… [more below]
- Series: Deadly Expeditions
- Author: Golkar, Golriz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1666390577
- Language: English
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Farthest North: The Greatest Arctic Adventure Story
$21.95 Read moreIn 1893 Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures and drift to the North Pole as a scient… [more below]
- Author: Nansen, Fridtjof
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1783342455
- Language: English
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The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish: Based on a True Story
$9.99 Read moreA riveting, unforgettable survival story, poetically told and exquisitely illustrated with rounded scratchboard art, that captures the strength and grace of Inupiaq culture.
In 1913, a boat called Fis
- Author: Martin, Jacqueline Briggs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0618548955
- Language: English
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Marooned in the Arctic: The True Story of ADA Blackjack, the Female Robinson Crusoe Volume 15
$19.95 Add to cartA Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2017
In 1921, four men ventured into the Arctic for a top-secret expedition: an attempt to claim uninhabited Wrangel Island in northern Siberia f- Series: Women of Action
- Author: Caravantes, Peggy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1613730985
- Language: English
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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhabited Arctic island
In September 1921, four young men and A- Author: Niven, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 431
- Publish Date: October 19 2007
- ISBN10: 0786868635
- Language: English
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The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
$24.99 Add to cartThe 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… [more below]
- Author: Niven, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0786884460
- Language: English
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Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North
$27.00 Add to cartIn 1893, Fridjtof Nansen set sail in the Fram, a ship specially designed and built to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel with the sea’s drift closer to the … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Exploration
- Author: Nansen, Fridtjof
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0375754725
- Language: English
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Across Arctic America: Narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition
$26.95 Add to cartBetween 1921 and 1924, Knud Rasmussen led a small band of colleagues in a journey of investigation across the top of North America. The full scientific report of that 20,000-mile trek by dog sled from… [more below]
- Series: Classic Reprint Series #06
- Author: Rasmussen, Knud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 415
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0912006943
- Language: English
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Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World’s Greatest Scientific Expedition
$28.00 Add to cartThe story of the world’s largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told
The immense 18th-century scien- Series: Merloyd Lawrence Book
- Author: Bown, Stephen R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0306825198
- Language: English
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Northern Lights: A History of the Arctic Scots
$32.00 Read moreIn the tradition of Arthur Herman’s How the Scots Invented the Modern World comes a narrative that charts the remarkable–yet often overlooked or misidentified–Scottish contribution to Arctic explora… [more below]
- Author: Cowan, Edward J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1639362703
- Language: English
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Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
$20.00 Add to cartIn the bestselling tradition of Hampton Sides’s In the Kingdom of Ice, a “gripping adventure tale” (The Boston Globe) recounting Dutch polar explorer William Barents’ three harrowing Arctic expedition
- Author: Pitzer, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1982113359
- Language: English
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Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
$20.00 Add to cartNational Outdoor Book Awards Winner
The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it.
In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine- Author: Levy, Buddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: 5-Dec-23
- ISBN10: 1250871638
- Language: English
