Polar Regions Books


Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Best Price: $4.69 Aptly named, this is a stunning story of courage, strength and perseverance. Good medicine for...	The Ice Diaries: The True Story of One of Mankind's Greatest Adventures Best Price: $12.49 You might not think that an account of a real world event such as the first visit to the North...	The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition Best Price: $10.00 A dear friend gave me this book when it was released and I became hooked on all things...	The Worst Journey in the World (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $10.14 Get this book and read it to your children. Teach them of the days when men were men (and...	Unknown Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651) Best Price: $14.97 CAPT McLaren's splendid account of USS QUEENFISH's historic under-ice survey is well-written and...



The Last Place on Earth (Modern Library Exploration) Best Price: $7.70 Stellar story that was painstakenly researched. This is the kind of book that inspires one to...	Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure Best Price: $4.73 Endurance: An Epic of Polar AdventureI wanted to know something new, beyond the shackleton's...	Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written Best Price: $6.98 Doug Mawson just kept going through the antarctic freezing climate on foot when it would have...	People of the Deer (Death of a People) Best Price: $8.25 The concept is correct anyway. These people were led to their demise by three factors: the...	Vikings : The North Atlantic Saga Best Price: $19.07 This sumptuous and lavishly illustrated volume of 432 large pages, was published by the...



The Worst Journey in the World Best Price: $5.09 You will NOT be sorry to embark upon this wonderfully written, dramatic, brave and heartbreaking...	The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica Best Price: $3.40 I enjoyed reading this book and it provided me with a lot of information that I found very...	Shackleton's Way: 4Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer Best Price: $8.09 I was assigned this book as part of my Master's class in business, but as a military officer...	Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic Best Price: $4.73 This is a very interesting true story, of four young men lured to their deaths in the polar...	The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and The North Pole, 1818-1909 Best Price: $34.00 Very rarely the reader is so moved by a book that he simply starts thinking about it around the...

The Sledge Patrol: A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Victory Best Price: $8.71 The story itself is interesting and exciting, and I enjoyed the accompanying insights into life...	Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo Best Price: $4.99 Poor Minik, captured by white traders and brought to Manhattan to be a freak! It was the age of...	Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic (Adrenaline Classic Series) Best Price: $4.45 This would have been a five-star book, had the maps not been so poorly presented. Of the three...	Farthest North: The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer Best Price: $10.77 "If Outside magazine had been around during the first turn of the century, Fridtjof...	Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 Best Price: $0.01 This book is fascinating from beginning to end. If you're one of those readers that are...

Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey Best Price: $21.35 Although this is a "coffee table" style book, and the pictures are excellent, its...	Arctic Village: A 1930's Portrait of Wiseman, Alaska (Classic Reprint Series) Best Price: $15.00 interesting stuff but written not very well. reading this book makes me feel like eating dry...	Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Best Price: $11.95 In the summer of 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set off aboard the Endurance bound for the South...	Woven into the Earth: Textiles from Norse Greenland Best Price: $43.12 This hard-cover book, translated from Danish, is a fascinating look at an obscure treasure....	The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912 Best Price: $18.84 Wonderful. Strong. Beautiful. It is a great book. You end up thinking that the five hundred...

Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship Best Price: $7.21 Another Arctic historian wrote a review siting numerous mistakes in the over all Arctic history...	Antarctic Destinies: Scott, Shackleton, and the Changing Face of Heroism Best Price: $11.90 ANTARCTIC DESTINIES: SCOTT, SHACKLETON AND THE CHANGING FACE OF HEROISM follows the changing...	Antarctica: Life on the Ice (Travelers' Tales) Best Price: $7.25 I lived and worked in McMurdo Station, Antarctica, for a few seasons. Reading the Traveler's...	Escape from the Antarctic (Penguin Great Journeys) Best Price: $1.48 Inspired by Penguin?s innovative Great Ideas series, our new Great Journeys series presents the...	Buried In Ice: A Time Quest Book Best Price: $1.65 This book is really cool, although those who don't like pictures of slightly (but not much)...

A Brief History of the Vikings: The Last Pagans or the First Modern Europeans? (Brief History Series) Best Price: $5.95 Having visited Viking sites in Norway and read about their trading expeditions into Russia and...	Farthest North (Modern Library Exploration) Best Price: $16.58 If you like adventure, this one is for you. This one is in the same genre as Shackleton's...	Barren Lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic Best Price: $79.99 This is a true story, but reads like a novel. It is about the search for diamonds in northern...	The Old Way North: Following the Oberholtzer-Magee Expedition Best Price: $16.00 In the spring of 1912, Ojibwe guide Billy Magee received a letter from future conservationist...	The Man Who Mapped the Arctic: The Intrepid Life of George Back, Franklin's Lieutenant Best Price: $8.25 It takes considerable flair and panache to write history in a way that makes it read like a...

Tom Crean: Unsung Hero of the Scott and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions Best Price: $299.99 One night last week I watched "Scott of the Antarctic." Being very impressed with the...	Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer (Modern Library Exploration) Best Price: $5.98 Charles Hall is the most extravagant figure in arctic exploration. His life is a poem. His...	Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer (Modern Library Exploration) Best Price: $5.98 Charles Hall is the most extravagant figure in arctic exploration. His life is a poem. His...	Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica Best Price: $11.24 Listen to a short interview with Tom Griffiths Host: Chris Gondek \| Producer: Heron &...	Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure (Kodansha Globe.) Best Price: $6.75 When I was thirteen, I read ALONE at the suggestion of my grandmother, Florence Wright Ferguson....

Let Heroes Speak: Antartic Explorers 1772-1922 Best Price: $3.95 Rosove stays modestly in the background and lets his explorers, who were often excellent prose...	Wise Words of the Yup'ik People: We Talk to You because We Love You Best Price: $14.00 The Yup'ik people of southwestern Alaska were some of the last Arctic peoples to come into...	Arctic Crossing: A Journey Through the Northwest Passage and Inuit Culture Best Price: $80.00 Jonathan Waterman travels over 2,200 miles across the roof of the World. He tells us about the...	In the Land of White Death : An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic Best Price: $3.55 Talk about an incredibly survival journey, this is it. These guys were very resourceful and...	True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole Best Price: $6.59 There were no winners in this race, as expertly laid out by author Bruce Henderson. While the...

Across Arctic America: Narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition (Classic Reprint Series (Univ of Alaska Pr), No 6) Best Price: $34.65 Knud Rasmussen was a native Greenlander who was half Inuit and half Danish. He was the first...	Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy Best Price: $14.75 David Crane shows how the death of the explorer Captain Scott galvanized the UK on the edge of...	Shackleton: The Antarctic Challenge Best Price: $4.10 This book must be added to your collection if you are a true student of the Shackleton story. It...	Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen: Ambition and Tragedy in the Antarctic Best Price: $14.87 There are many books on the race to the South Pole. Thomson's book is one of the good ones. It...	Ancient Mariner: The Arctic Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Inspired Coleridge's Masterpiece Best Price: $3.13 Any literature or history aficionado would enjoy this book. I have recently gotten interested in...

Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard Best Price: $4.65 Tough to scold the author on this since her depiction of 'Cherry' was probably accurate....which...	Journals: Scott's Last Expedition (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $3.57 In January 1912, Britain's Captain Robert F. Scott reached the South Pole, only to find he had...	Crooked Past: The History of a Frontier Mining Camp Best Price: $8.95 The crookedest street in Fairbanks, an Alaskan sourdough once said, is rightly named for town...	Critical Inuit Studies: An Anthology of Contemporary Arctic Ethnography Best Price: $28.51 Over the past decade, some of the most innovative work in anthropology and related fields has...	Escape from the Ice: Shackleton and the Endurance (Hello Reader Level 4) Best Price: $1.50

The Heart of the Antarctic: The Story of the British Antartic Expedition 1907-1909 Best Price: $19.95	Haunted Alaska: Ghost Stories from the Far North Best Price: $3.99 I liked the book because it was one of the first books that I encountered that talked about the...

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