Polar Regions
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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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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
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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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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 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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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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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
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Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition
$18.95 Add to cart“A remarkable piece of forensic deduction.”–Margaret Atwood
The internationally-bestselling account of the Franklin’s doomed Arctic expedition, and the thrilling scientific investigation that spurred
- Author: Beattie, Owen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1771641738
- Language: English
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Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance
$13.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary true story behind Ernest Shackleton’s harrowing expedition to Antarctica on the Endurance–the ill-fated ship that became trapped in ice and sank to the ocean floor. Defying the odds… [more below]
- Author: Armstrong, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 375810498
- Language: English
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Burning Cold: An Inuit and Dene Comics Collection
$19.95 Add to cartJourney to the depths of the Arctic and beyond in this unique collection of stories from the award-winning volumes of Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection.
Burning Cold is a captivating volume- Author: Qitsualik-Tinsley, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1774506548
- Language: English
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The Penguin Who Was Cold
$18.99 Add to cart* Andersen Prize Winner, Best Book 0 – 6 Years * Selection Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrator’s Exhibition
“Stunning geometric illustrations and a poignant story about identity and inclusion ma- Author: Giordano, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1735311510
- Language: English
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DK Super Readers Level 2 North Pole, South Pole
$4.99 Read moreHelp your child power up their reading skills and learn all about life in the polar regions with this fun-filled nonfiction reader carefully leveled to help children progress.
DK Super Readers Level 2:… [more below]- Series: DK Super Readers
- Author: DK
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0744071577
- Language: English
