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Women explorers in polar regions
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Margo McLoone |
Briefly describes the lives and travels of five women who explored the polar regions. |
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White Eskimo
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Stephen R. Bown |
"While Amundsen, Franklin, and Peary were first to explore the furthest geographical reaches of the Polar North, Knud Rasmussen was the first to explore its culture and its soul. Part Danish, part In… |
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Cold
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Fiennes, Ranulph Sir |
There are only few human beings who can adapt, survive and thrive in the coldest regions on earth. And below a certain temperature, death is inevitable. Sir Ranulph Fiennes has spent much of his life… |
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In the land of white death
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Valerian Albanov,Linda Dubosson,Valerian Ivanovich Alʹbanov |
In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prov… |
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Ghosts of Cape Sabine
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Leonard F. Guttridge |
Mutiny, shipwreck, a new farthest north, bureaucratic ineptitude, cannibalism. A story that features all these elements promises more than enough excitement, but Guttridge (Icebound, etc.) doesn't co… |
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The ice diaries
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William R. Anderson |
The Ice Diaries tells the incredible true story of Captain William R. Anderson and his crew's harrowing top-secret mission aboard the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine. Bristl… |
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Cold
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Bill Streever |
From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to "The Year Without Summer," Bill Streever journeys through history, myth, geography, and ecology in a year-lo… |
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From Barrow to Boothia
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Peter Warren Dease |
"Peter Dease's journal, reproduced in full, is supplemented by a brief introduction to each section and detailed annotations that clarify and elaborate the text. By including relevant correspondence … |
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