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A classic tale of seafaring, shipwreck, and survival, reprinted from Wesleyan University Press's 1978 facsimile of the original.

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This essay collection showcases Stark's infatuation with snow and ice, winter sport, and arctic travel. Join Stark as he braves the ski jump, runs ... More

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When Auden and MacNeice travelled in Iceland together in 1936, the verse, prose, letters and notes they recorded would appear the following year as ... More

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A native of Africa, the author recounts how a picture book about Greenland inspired him to embark on a life-changing journey that would last for ten ... More

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Plimptonesque jaunts and essays on winter sports and arctic travel, by a contributing editor to Outside Magazine.

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Worried that his passion for life might dim if he does not set off one more time to literally test the waters of the West, Nerburn abandons the cold, ... More

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From a leper colony in India to an American research station on the Antarctic Peninsula, from the back rooms of the White House to the battlefields ... More

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In 1894, Paul Gauguin left what he considered to be a culturally bereft Europe to live an unfettered life in a tropical paradiseTahiti. It was there ... More

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Heavily illustrated with representative color and black-and-white artwork, the selected correspondence of Anna Heyward Taylor (1879-1956) captures ... More

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Journal du voyage du cavalier Bernin en France / par M. de Chantelou; ms. inedit publ. et annote par Ludovic LalanneDate de l'edition originale: ... More

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In 1960, feeling that his work was unappreciated in America, Rockwell Kent gave the collection of his life's work to the people of the Soviet Union. ... More

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"You're going where?" Carol Spencer Mitchell's father demanded as she set off in 1984 to cover the Middle East as a photojournalist for Newsweek and ... More

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In an unforgettable tribute to the far latitudes, Gretel Ehrlich travels across Greenland, the largest island on earth. Greenland is the largest ... More

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Redmond O'Hanlon describes his extraordinary three-week trip on an Orkney trawler as it journeys far into the north Atlantic in search of its catch. ... More

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In his most ambitious book to date, poet, musician, wit, and polemicist Bill Holm repairs to his Icelandic cottage to reflect on the United States ... More

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Filled with breathtaking photos, this adventure epic of Greenland offers insight into the lives of the people who call this harsh land home and gives ... More

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