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1	Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape more books like this by Barry Holstun Lopez add to wishlist A portrait of the Arctic that celebrates the landscape, wildlife and people of the vast and mysterious region. Above all, it is a story of light - solar and lunar rings, halos and coronas, the aurora borealis, and the distant mountain that is actually a looming and convincing mirage. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	North to the Orient more books like this by Anne Morrow Lindbergh add to wishlist In 1931 Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh set off on a flight to the Orient by the Great Circle Route. The classic North to the Orient is the beautifully written account of the trip. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Arctic Dreams more books like this by Barry Holstun Lopez add to wishlist Considered Lopez's finest book, this is part adventure tale and part meditation on the nature of exploration. Lopez writes about the aurora borealis, polar bears, killer whales, icebergs, and the nobility of the indigenous people of the Arctic. Winner of the American Book Award. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Voyage of the Narwhal more books like this by Andrea Barrett add to wishlist Andrea Barrett's novel is about the 1845 expedition to the Arctic that ended in starvation and possibly cannibalism. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Snow Walker more books like this by Farley Mowat add to wishlist In these extraordinary stories of survival in a stark and savage land, Mowat writes passionately of the bonds between the aboriginal peoples of the far north and their harsh arctic environment. One of the most beloved storytellers of our time, he captures the courage and wisdom of the arctic people in this bestselling collection. Above all, The ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.62! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Arctic adventure; my life in the frozen north more books like this by Peter Freuchen add to wishlist An adventure classic by the famed explorer who lived among the Greenland Inuit. (SEE QUOTE.) see all copies from $5.00! first editions \| SVS
7	Nansen: The Explorer as Hero more books like this by Roland Huntford add to wishlist This biography of the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen focuses on his various attempts to reach the North Pole by sea and by land. It also explores how he handled fame that came afterward. Nansen became a public figure and diplomat, and he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922. The author has written two other biographies of explorers, SHACKLETON ... see all copies from $2.83! new only from $17.50! \| SVS
8	Kabloona: Among the Inuit more books like this by Gontran de Poncins, Professor Grover Gardner (Read by) add to wishlist This account of one European man's encounter with the "other" is a classic of anthropology, adventure, travel, and spiritual renewal. In 1938, de Poncins, a French nobleman, spent 15 months living among the Inuit. At first appalled by many aspects of their life, he gradually finds himself transformed from "kabloona"--"the white man", an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.63! \| first editions
9	Cold Oceans: Adventures in Kayak, Rowboat, and Dogsled more books like this by Jon Turk add to wishlist The exhilarating story of adventurer Jon Turk, who has traveled through some of the world's most challenging and inhospitable landscapes, from kayaking around Cape Horn to dogsledding across Canada's remote Baffin Island. NPR feature. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Polar Bear Son: An Inuit Tale more books like this by Lydia Dabcovich add to wishlist A lonely Inuit woman adopts and raises a polar bear cub as if it were her child. However, the other villagers don't want a polar bear near their homes and force the woman to give up her bear. Will the woman ever see her bear child again? Oil paintings illustrate this retelling of an Inuit tale. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic more books like this by Harvey Oxenhorn add to wishlist Harvey Oxenhorn had taught Conrad and Melville, but knew nothing about ships or sailing until he made his first voyage on the Regina Maris--a tall ship converted into a study vessel for scientists and crew. Turning The Rig is his fascinating account of that voyage. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.08! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	The Arctic Grail: 2the Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909 more books like this by Pierre Berton add to wishlist Pierre Berton has written a revisionist history of the search for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, which covers the entire period from the expedition of William Edward Parry to that of Robert Peary in a single volume. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
13 view cover	The Ice Diaries: The True Story of One of Mankind's Greatest Adventures more books like this by William R Anderson, M.D, Don Keith add to wishlist Now, for the first time, the Captain of the submarine USS Nautilus tells the newly declassified story of his ship's Cold War underwater adventure in the race beneath the polar ice pack.The Cold War was in full swing. The Soviet Union had just successfully launched Sputnik, and President Eisenhower badly wanted to redeem the reputation of the US as ... see all copies from $4.23! new only from $6.23! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Arctic explorations : the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '55 more books like this by Elisha Kent Kane add to wishlist see all copies from $6.00! new only from $9.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Destruction of Convoy Pq-17 more books like this by David John Cawdell Irving add to wishlist First published in England, this is the highly controversial book banned in 1967. Detailing the fate of 35 Allied ships destined for the Barents Sea, Irving reveals the blundering that doomed the convoy and caused him to be sued for libel. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $31.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Farthest North more books like this by Fridtjof Nansen add to wishlist Nansen's three-year expedition to the North Pole with the Fram marked the beginning of the modern age of exploration. This book is an account, by Freidtjof Nansen, of that expedition. It describes his plan, ridiculed by his peers, to allow the specially designed Fram to become frozen in the treacherous pack ice of the Arctic Oceans. Drifting with ... see all copies from $5.63! new only from $14.80! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Surface at the Pole: The Extraordinary Voyages of the USS Skate more books like this by James E Calvert add to wishlist The story of the atomic sub sent to the Arctic Ocean to determine if submarines could safely navigate beneath its floes and surface. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $19.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	73 North: The Battle of the Barents Sea more books like this by Dudley Pope add to wishlist Here is a remarkable account of the battle of the Barents SEa in which four small British destroyers held off the might of the German Fleet. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.96! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic more books like this by E C Pielou add to wishlist This book is a practical, portable guide to all of the Arctic's natural history--sky, atmosphere, terrain, ice, the sea, plants, birds, mammals, fish, and insects--for those who will experience the Arctic firsthand and for armchair travelers who would just as soon read about its splendors and surprises. It is packed with answers to naturalists' ... see all copies from $3.02! new only from $15.44! \| SVS
20 view cover	Cook & Peary: The Polar Controversy, Resolved more books like this by Robert M. Bryce add to wishlist This volume draws on diaries, private letters, newspaper reports, and other primary sources to examine the careers of two rival explorers and the controversy over which one had been the first to reach the North Pole. see all copies from $7.98! new only from $25.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	A Discovery of Strangers more books like this by Rudy Wiebe add to wishlist "A Discovery of Strangers" tells of the meeting of two civilizations - the first encounter of the nomadic Dene people with Europeans - in an imaginative reconstruction of John Franklin's first map-making expedition in 1819--21 in what is now the Northwest Territories. At the heart of the novel is a love story between twenty-two-year-old midshipman ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Arctic Tundra more books like this by Donald M Silver, Patricia J Wynne (Illustrator) add to wishlist It's a land of riddles, where a winter night can last for weeks and where the ground is full of water though it rarely rains or snows. Bears, hares, wolves, and foxes roam the ice-crusted earth, as flowers follow the sun as it moves across the sky. Young readers may never come to the Arctic tundra, but now it can come to them - in a book chock ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.15! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Sea Ice & Rock more books like this by Chris Bonington, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston add to wishlist After meeting on the TV programme "The Krypton Factor", the authors of this book pooled their abilities on a light-hearted sail to Skye to climb the Cuillin Ridge. The Greenland expedition was something much more ambitious. First Robin had to nurse his famous wooden yacht through the enclosing icebergs of Watkins Fjord. Then Chris had to sort out ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $79.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24	The Rifles: 8 more books like this by William T Vollmann add to wishlist Vaulting through time to another flashpoint in the long struggle between Indians and Europeans, Vollmann's visionary fictional history now focuses on the white explorers of 150 years ago, desperately dreaming of forging a Northwest Passage. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Arctic Explorer: The Story of Matthew Henson more books like this by Jeri Ferris add to wishlist A biography of the Black explorer who discovered the North Pole. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.22! \| first editions \| SVS

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