Cultural Region/Arctic/Antarctic
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Over in the Arctic: A Polar Baby Animal Counting Book
$8.99 Add to cartLearning is fun while discovering one of the most beautiful ecosystems in the world! Begin to appreciate the adorable baby animals in the arctic like the snow goose that “honks” and the wolf that “how
- Series: Our World, Our Home
- Author: Berkes, Marianne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 21 2021
- ISBN10: 172824370X
- Language: English
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Antarctica: A Biography
$40.99 Add to cartSince the first sailing ships spied the Antarctic coastline in 1820, the frozen continent has captured the world’s imagination. David Day’s brilliant biography of Antarctica describes in fascinating d… [more below]
- Author: Day, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 642
- Publish Date: June 20 2013
- ISBN10: 0199861455
- Language: English
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Life in the Cold: An Introduction to Winter Ecology, fourth edition
$29.95 Add to cartPeter J. Marchand’s Life in the Cold remains the one book that offers a comprehensive picture of the interactions of plants and animals-including humans-with their cold-weather environment. Focusing o… [more below]
- Author: Marchand, Peter J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1611684285
- Language: English
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Lost Antarctica
$20.00 Add to cartFew of us will ever get to Antarctica. The bitter cold and three months a year without sunlight makes the sixth continent virtually uninhabitable for humans. Yet marine biologist James B. McClintock h… [more below]
- Series: MacSci
- Author: McClintock, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1137278889
- Language: English
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Ice Rivers: A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity
$27.93 Add to cartA passionate eyewitness account of the mysteries and looming demise of glaciers–and what their fate means for our shared future
The ice sheets and glaciers that cover one-tenth of Earth’s land surfac- Author: Wadham, Jemma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0691241813
- 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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Gyrfalcon: The One Who Stays All Winter
$28.99 Add to cartGyrfalcons and humans have shared a remarkable relationship since prehistoric times. These extraordinary arctic falcons have been revered, coveted as an item of commerce, persecuted, and enjoyed as a … [more below]
- Author: Barichello, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1525551035
- Language: English
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The Greatest Polar Exploration Stories Ever Told
$31.58 Add to cartThe Greatest Polar Exploration Stories Ever Told is a visceral, exciting, and stunning collection of twelve stories recounting the bravery, resoluteness, and strength of the men who willingly traverse
- Series: Greatest
- Author: McCarthy, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493071009
- Language: English
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N by E
$22.95 Add to cartA classic tale of seafaring, shipwreck, and survival, reprinted from Wesleyan University Press’s 1978 facsimile of the original.
When artist, illustrator, writer, and adventurer Rockwell Kent first pub
- Author: Kent, Rockwell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 303
- Publish Date: July 26 1996
- ISBN10: 0819552925
- Language: English
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South: The Endurance Expedition
$22.00 Add to cartAs 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 i… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Shackleton, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 27 2004
- ISBN10: 0142437794
- Language: English
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A Woman in the Polar Night
$19.95 Add to cart“An epic story, elegantly told and full of mystery.” — Maggie Shipstead, author of Great Circle
A rediscovered classic memoir – the mesmerizingly beautiful account of one woman’s year spent living in- Series: Pushkin Press Classics
- Author: Ritter, Christiane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1805330896
- 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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Life Lessons from Explorers: Learn How to Weather Life’s Storms from History’s Greatest Explorers
$14.95 Read moreGreat explorers are known for their hard-earned skills and meticulously honed character traits which have made their astonishing endeavours possible. Valuable lessons are waiting to be learned from th
- Author: Aston, Felicity
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1787396118
- Language: English
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Shackleton’s Boat Journey
$21.99 Add to cartFrank A. Worsley was the captain of the H.M.S. Endurance, the ship used by the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. On its way to the Antarctic continen
- Author: Worsley, Frank Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0393318648
- Language: English
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The Worst Journey in the World: With Scott in Antarctica 1910-1913
$18.95 Add to cartThe Worst Journey in the World is to travel writing what War and Peace is to the novel . . . a masterpiece.–The New York Review of Books
When people ask me, ‘What is your favorite travel book?’ I near… [more below]- Author: Cherry-Garrard, Apsley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0486477320
- Language: English
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Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic’s Edge
$19.00 Add to cartTwo by sea: a couple rows the wild coasts of the far north in Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic’s Edge.
Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arct- Author: Fredston, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0865476551
- Language: English
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Narwhals and Other Whales: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #33: Narwhal on a Sunny Night
$7.99 Read moreTrack the facts about the unicorn of the sea–the narwhal–and its closest relatives!
When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #33: Narwhal on a Sunny Night, they had l- Series: Magic Tree House (R) Fact Tracker #42
- Author: Osborne, Mary Pope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1984893203
- Language: English
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Across Arctic America: Narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition
$26.95 Read moreBetween 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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South: The Illustrated Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917
$35.00 Add to cartExperience in the polar explorer’s own words, Ernest Shackleton’s thrilling yet ill-fated expedition on the ship Endurance, the wreck of which was discovered off the coast of Antarctica in March 2022.
- Author: Shackleton, Ernest Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0760364826
- Language: English
