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Boreal ties Boreal ties Peary Relief Expedition (1901) "Now for the first time, the photographs and diaries from the 1901 Robert Peary relief expedition provide an intimate and unforgettable impression of two friends aboard ship in the Arctic at the turn… OL12344673W
Arctic dreams Arctic dreams Barry Lopez Barry Holstun Lopez: “Arctic Dreams; Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape” ( 1986) This is an account of the author's exploration of the Western Arctic region, between Bering Strait a… OL14520W
Women explorers in polar regions Women explorers in polar regions Margo McLoone Briefly describes the lives and travels of five women who explored the polar regions. OL15853381W
The scramble for the Arctic The scramble for the Arctic Sale, Richard "In August 2007, the world reacted with consternation as Russia planted a flag beneath the ice of the North Pole, symbolizing the Kremlin's claim to the Arctic with its vast mineral resources, and fi… OL16063750W
Walking On Thin Ice Walking On Thin Ice Robert Uhl,David Hempleman-Adams Hempleman-Adams's chronicle of his trek to the geographic North Pole?the one conquest standing between him and the Adventurers' Grand Slam?strays little from the nuts and bolts of the genre but is ch… OL17272844W
Into the ice Into the ice Lynn Curlee Describes the ice cap above the northernmost shores of Asia, North America, and Greenland, and the expeditions that criss-crossed it in search of the North Pole. OL1869887W
White Eskimo White Eskimo 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… OL20012548W
Ice ghosts Ice ghosts Paul Watson "A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author of Where War Lives and expedition member describes how an unlikely combination of marine science and Inuit knowledge helped solve the mystery of the lost … OL20052236W
The Spectral Arctic The Spectral Arctic Shane McCorristine Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voy… OL20930334W
Cold Cold 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… OL20982977W
Midnight to the North Midnight to the North Sheila B. Nickerson "The Polaris expedition of 1871-1873 was one of the strangest tragedies in the history of Arctic exploration. Less than five months after setting out to lead the first official American party to the … OL2630701W
Lost in the Arctic Lost in the Arctic Lawrence Millman This collection of 30 adventure essays by celebrated Arctic enthusiast Millman features 17 new pieces along with those that have appeared elsewhere: in his previous books (Last Places; Northern Latit… OL2733271W
Over the top of the world Over the top of the world Will Steger An account of explorer Will Steger's expedition from Russia to Canada by way of the North Pole, traveling by dog sled and canoe. OL3243097W
In the land of white death In the land of white death 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… OL4182186W
Ghosts of Cape Sabine Ghosts of Cape Sabine 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… OL4278983W
The ice diaries The ice diaries 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… OL4774363W
Ninety Degrees North Ninety Degrees North Fergus Fleming It was once believed that the North Pole was surrounded by an open polar sea. Some of the attempts to prove this theory and to reach the pole itself once the theory was abandoned are the subject of t… OL503852W
Cold Cold 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… OL5941929W
From Barrow to Boothia From Barrow to Boothia 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 … OL6003329W
Karluk Karluk William Laird McKinlay Account of loss of Karluk, and subsequent ordeal of survivors, during Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18, written by expedition's magnetician and meteorologist. OL66403W
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