Cultural Region/Arctic/Antarctic
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The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
$19.00 Add to cartThe spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the most remarkable feat of science and daring of the Jazz Age, The Stowaway is “a thrilling advent… [more below]
- Author: Shapiro, Laurie Gwen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1476753873
- Language: English
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The Tlingit Indians: Observations of an Indigenous People of Southeast Alaska 1881-1882
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1881, two German geographers were on their way to the continental United States from the Bering Sea Coast when they came upon a Native population in southeast Alaska that had formed a society far m… [more below]
- Author: Krause, Aurel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: April 15 2013
- ISBN10: 193534725X
- 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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Against the Ice: The Classic Arctic Survival Story
$18.95 Read moreNow a major Netflix film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones)
The harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal account of two mismatched Arctic explorers who banded tog- Author: Mikkelsen, Ejnar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1586423347
- 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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The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time
$22.95 Add to cart- Author: Raffles, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1891241737
- Language: English
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The Arctic: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The Arctic is demanding global attention. It is warming, melting, and thawing in a manner that threatens fundamental state-change. For communiti- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Dodds, Klaus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0198819285
- Language: English
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Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
$18.99 Add to cartFloating Coast is the first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada. The unforgiving territories along the Bering Strait had long been home
- Author: Demuth, Bathsheba
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358321
- Language: English
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Chasing Icebergs: How Frozen Freshwater Can Save the Planet
$28.95 Read moreA deeply intelligent and engrossing narrative that will transform our relationship with water and how we view climate change.
The global water crisis is upon us. 1 in 3 people do not have access to s- Author: Birkhold, Matthew H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363432
- Language: English
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Antarctica Cruising Guide: Sixth Edition: Includes Antarctic Peninsula, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Ross Sea
$28.95 Read moreNow packed with even more breathtaking color photographs, wildlife descriptions, and detailed area maps, this updated sixth edition of this bestselling Antarctica travel guide includes fascinating, fu… [more below]
- Author: Franklin, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: November 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1927249880
- Language: English
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Toward Antarctica
$19.95 Read more*Selected as a Top 10 Must-Read Book About Antarctica by the International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators
Poet-naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield’s fourth collection, Toward Antarctica, documents
- Author: Bradfield, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1597098868
- Language: English
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Leading at The Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition
$22.99 Add to cartDrawing on the amazing story of Shackleton and his polar exploration team’s survival against all odds, author Dennis N. T. Perkins demonstrates the importance of a strong leader in times of adversity,
- Author: Perkins, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0814431941
- Language: English
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Mrs. Chippy’s Last Expedition
$15.99 Add to cart“Alexander has done a fine job. . . allowing the cat’s (and her own) sense of humor to have full run.” –New York Times Book Review
When Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance became trapped in the Ant
- Author: Alexander, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 24 1999
- ISBN10: 0060932619
- Language: English
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Ordinary Wolves
$20.00 Add to cartEskimo and white culture collide in this national bestselling novel of life in the contemporary Alaskan wilderness: “A magnificently realized story” (New York Times Book Review).
Ordinary Wolves depict
- Author: Kantner, Seth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1571311211
- Language: English
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The Ice Limit
$8.99 Add to cartNational Book Award finalist Julie Anne Peters delivers a moving, classic love story with a coming out theme and a modern twist.
The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed in the earth … [more below]- Author: Preston, Douglas
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1455595853
- Language: English
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Ice Station
$23.00 Add to cartAt Wilkes Station on the edge of Antarctica, a team of U.S. divers makes a valuable discovery 3,000 feet below the ice shelf. When the team vanishes, a team of Marines is deployed to the site and ends… [more below]
- Author: Reilly, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 546
- Publish Date: September 15 2000
- ISBN10: 1250814510
- Language: English
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The Voyage of the Narwhal
$16.95 Add to cartThe Narwhal has a simple mission: to find the remains–human and material–of a disappeared ship. But its rash and obsessive young commander, Zeke Voorhees, has ulterior motives that may spell doom fo
- Author: Barrett, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1324065974
- Language: English
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The World Book: Explore the Facts, STATS and Flags of Every Country
$26.95 Add to cartA whirlwind tour of the entire globe, this beautifully illustrated atlas is jam-packed with facts about every country in the world, perfect for readers 8+.
Where would you like to visit next? Take a t
- Author: Fullman, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1913519473
- Language: English
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Borealis
$14.95 Add to cartArt about glaciers, queer relationships, political anxiety, and the meaning of Blackness in open space–Borealis is a shapeshifting logbook of Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s experiences moving through the Ala
- Series: Spatial Species
- Author: Sabatini Sloan, Aisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1566896193
- Language: English
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Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
$21.99 Add to cartThe mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance
- Author: Mitenbuler, Reid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0063352435
- Language: English
