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1	The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition more books like this by Caroline Alexander add to wishlist In August 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 set sail aboard the "Endurance" bound for the South Atlantic. Their goal was to be the first men to cross Antarctica. Caroline Alexander tells the story of Shackleton's expedition accompanied by the photographs of Australian Frank Hurley. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage more books like this by Alfred Lansing add to wishlist Following two successful expeditions to the Antarctic, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) led his crew to the region in order to lead a transantarctic trek in the summer of 1914. This book focuses on the several months of hardship followed by the destruction of their ship "Endurance". Diaries and interviews with the crew assist the author in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	In the land of white death : an epic story of survival in the Siberian Arctic more books like this by Valerian Albanov add to wishlist This recounting of a 1912 disaster tells how a crew of a Russian ship survived on provisions for over a year and a half while frozen in the Siberian Arctic and how, almost without hope, some of the crew decided to try to make it across land. Only two survived. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Last Place on Earth more books like this by Roland Huntford add to wishlist First published in the late 1970s, this book details the events surrounding the first voyage to the South Pole. The British Naval officer Robert Falcon Scott and crew died on the return from the Pole, after discovering that Norwegian Roald Amundsen had reached the site first in 1911. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk more books like this by Jennifer Niven add to wishlist This chronicle of the aftermath of a 1913 shipwreck in Siberia tells of the struggle of 24 men, women, and children to survive in open nature and the intense rivalries that developed among them. Some of those marooned were eventually rescued after the captain left the camp and trekked across the wilderness for help. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica more books like this by David G Campbell, M.D add to wishlist Most accounts of Antarctica focus on the ice-cap that covers two thirds of the continent, the setting for the many heroic expeditions to the South Pole. This book is about the other Antarctica - the peninsula where for three months of the year the sun never sets, and where during the summer there is life in profusion, including many billions of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Worst Journey in the World more books like this by Apsley Cherry-Garrard add to wishlist Cherry-Garrard, who accompanied Robert Falcon Scott to the Antarctic on the explorer's doomed quest for the South Pole, recounts the unforgettable journey across forbidding, inhospitable terrain. He was also a member of the search party that ultimately discovered Scott's frozen body along with his last notebook entries. With an introduction by ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.44! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Endurance; an epic of polar adventure more books like this by F. A. Worsley add to wishlist The astounding and inspiring true story behind the forthcoming Wolfgang Petersen film of the same name. First published in 1931, "Endurance" is the full account of a doomed expedition to the Antarctic and the incredible rescue that followed. 20 illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.77! \| first editions \| SVS
9	People of the Deer more books like this by Farley Mowat add to wishlist In 1886, the Ihalmiut people of northern Canada numbered seven thousand; by 1946, when Farley Mowat began his two-year stay in the Arctic, the population had fallen to just forty. With them, he observed for the first time the phenomenon that would inspire him for the rest of his life: the millennia-old migration of the Arctic's caribou herds. He ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.98! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Barren Lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic more books like this by Kevin Krajick add to wishlist Diamond hunters Chuck Fipke and Stew Blusson venture into the Barren Lands of Canada in search of a cache of diamonds. Their 20-year search followed remote geological clues left by purveyors of the past who were searching for the same elusive motherlode of diamonds underneath the tundra. see all copies from $7.00! new only from $49.95! \| first editions
11 view cover	Ghosts of Cape Sabine: The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition more books like this by Leonard F Guttridge add to wishlist Through private letters and diaries, the author presents a day-by-day chronicle of the true story of the 25 men who in 1881 set sail to establish a scientific base in the Artic region of Lady Franklin Bay. Three years later, only three returned. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole more books like this by Bruce B Henderson add to wishlist This book is about one of the most enduring and vitriolic feuds in the history of exploration. "What a consummate cur he is" said Robert Peary of Frederick Cook in 1911. Cook responded, "Peary has stooped to every crime from rape to murder." They started as friends and shipmates, with Cook, a doctor, accompanying Peary, a civil engineer, on a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.33! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland more books like this by Gretel Ehrlich add to wishlist Ehrlich tells of her travels in Greenland: the months of unpunctuated days followed by months of endless nights, the chain of hospitality that she followed from north to south, and the ruggedness of solo travel in a cold wilderness. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.65! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Desperate People more books like this by Farley Mowat add to wishlist THEY COULD SURVIVE ANYTHING IN THE ARCTIC WILDERNESS--EXCEPT THE WHITE MAN.They were rich, the caribou were abundant. Their dogs were many and strong. The children in the tents were happy, and there was never any fear of going hungry. Then came the ruthless white man's civilization. And with it came slaughter of the herds, starvation of the flesh, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
15	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! new only from $239.64! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition more books like this by Ms. Susan Solomon add to wishlist This recreation of Robert Scott's 1911 polar expedition--his last--attempts to rehabilitate that explorer's reputation. Author Solomon uses the best available scientific knowledge to test her thesis that the unusually inclement weather was the fatal factor in Scott's demise, not, as some have surmised, his ineptitude and bumbling. A New York Times ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions
17 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 $8.00! new only from $14.80! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition more books like this by Scott Cookman add to wishlist "An absorbing account ...readers will flock to this fine regaling of the enduring mystery surrounding the best--known disaster in Arctic exploration." Kirkus Reviews It has been called the greatest disaster in the history of polar exploration. Led by Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, two state--of--the--art ships and 128 hand--picked men sailed ... see all copies from $3.49! new only from $14.95! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson - A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic more books like this by Mr. Peter C Mancall add to wishlist In this title, an acclaimed historian tells the tale of Henry Hudson's doomed final voyage in search of sea passage across the New World on its 400th anniversary. Henry C. Hudson - English mariner, storied explorer, and eponymous navigator of the Hudson River - throughout the final years of his life had a single obsession: The Northwest Passage. ... see all copies from $2.31! new only from $10.25! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	A First-Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole more books like this by Diana Preston add to wishlist In November of 1912, a team of searchers found the body of British explorer Robert Falcon Scott, along with those of his companions. Scott had died in the midst of his second expedition to the South Pole, only to have been beaten there by a Norwegian group headed by Roald Amundsen. This is the story of his final journey and the subsequent ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Boreal Ties: Photographs and Two Diaries of the 1901 Peary Relief Expedition more books like this by Kim Fairley Gillis (Editor), Silas Hibbard Ayer (Editor) add to wishlist In 1899 Robert Peary, exploring northern Greenland in search of the North Pole, lost seven toes to frostbite but refused to cut his exploration short to seek treatment. When his wife learned of his condition, she and their seven-year-old daughter set off in July 1900 to find Peary and persuade him to come home. The 1901 expedition documented in ... see all copies from $3.06! new only from $9.98! \| first editions
22 view cover	The Sledge Patrol: A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Victory more books like this by David Howarth add to wishlist The exciting tale of how the Sledge Patrol--a group of Danish and Norwegian hunters who used dog sleds to patrol a 500 mile stretch of the coast--out ran and outsmarted the pursuing German army during World War II. A story of skill, faith, courage and endurance. Photos. see all copies from $2.87! new only from $9.72! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917 more books like this by Frank Hurley (Photographer) add to wishlist This collection of photographs--more than 450 in all--records the exploits of the men who sailed on Shackleton's famous expedition that went wrong. Frank Hurley was the official photographer of the expedition, and later became one of Australia's foremost filmmakers and photographers. see all copies from $12.92! new only from $77.17!
24 view cover	The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 more books like this by E H Shackleton, Hugh Robert Mill (Introduction by) add to wishlist Shackleton's own thrilling account of his first Antarctic expedition and astonishing march to reach the South Pole. With the same drama and adventure of Shackleton's later memoir, South, Heart of the Antarctic chronicles the first polar expedition he led himself, which lasted over a year and included triumph, defeat, and harrowing experiences. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.04! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Shackleton's forgotten men : the untold tragedy of the endurance epic more books like this by Lennard Bickel add to wishlist In Shackleton's Forgotten Men Lennard Bickel honours the memory of a group of men who carried out some of the most heroic and devoted journeys ever made in the Antarctic. This is the stirring account of the little-known, tragic expedition launched by Ernest Shackleton in 1915 to provide support for his own Antarctic expedition that would follow ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.97! \| first editions \| SVS

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