Arctic & Antarctica

Intrepid Voyager, Writer And Comedian Michael Palin Follows The Trail Of Two Expeditions Made By The Royal Navy's Hms Erebus To Opposite Ends Of The Globe, ...

It Was To Be The Greatest And Most Elaborate Arctic Expedition In History, With The Largest Scientific Staff Ever Taken On Such A Journey. It's Leader, Vilh...

William Goetzmann And Glyndwr Williams ; [cartographic Director, Malcolm Swanston ; Maps Created By Isabelle Lewis And Jacqueline Land]. Cartographers From ...

1. Images Of The Inuit. Film Imagery Of The Happy-go-lucky Eskimo. Nanook Reborn As Joseph Idlout. Stark Images Of Another North. Henry Larsen's Views On In...

An exploration narrative can be a tale of adventure and endurance, a technical account of navigation and seamanship, or a political history of the overseas ...

A Geographer With Extensive Research Experience In The Canadian North, Jack D. Ives Has Written A Lively And Informative Account Of Several Expeditions To B...

"Gripping and superb. This book will steal the night from you." ―Laurence Gonzales, author of Deep Survival On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvatio...

Bruce Henderson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [315]-318) And Index.Categories: HistoryArctic & Antarctica

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 sc...

Canada’s wild frontier — a land unsettled and unknown, a land of appalling obstacles and haunting beauty — comes to life through seven remarkable indi...

Documents The 1946 Survival Story Of Six Navy Officers Whose Martin Mariner Seaplane Crashed In The Antarctic During A White-out Snowstorm, Describing The H...

The Definitive And Spellbinding Record Of Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, Immortalized On Film By Pioneering Photographer Frank Hurley.--jacket...