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The news at the ends of the earth
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Hester Blum |
From Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 search for the Northwest Passage to early twentieth-century sprints to the South Pole, polar expeditions produced an extravagant archive of documents that are as … |
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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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To the Ends of the Earth
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Richard Sale |
224 p. : 28cm |
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I May Be Some Time
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Francis Spufford |
Francis Spufford explores the British obsession with polar exploration in a book that Jan Morris, writing in The Times, called, "A truly majestic work of scholarship, thought and literary imagination… |
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German Exploration of the Polar World
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David Thomas Murphy |
"German Exploration of the Polar World is the story of the generations of German polar explorers who braved the perils of the Arctic and Antarctic for themselves and their country. Such intrepid adve… |
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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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