Arctic & Antarctica

america's First Frontier Was Not The West; It Was The Sea—and No One Writes More Eloquently About That Watery Wilderness Than Nathaniel Philbrick. In His ...

Perkins, President Of A Business Consulting Group, Cites Critical Moments In Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic Expedition To Illustrate Ten Strategies To Improve ...

In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • A “thrilling and superbly crafted” (Th...

Canada’s master storyteller returns to the North to chronicle the extraordinary stories of five inspiring and controversial characters. Canada’s maste...

John Rae's accomplishments, surpassing all nineteenth-century Arctic explorers, were worthy of honors and international fame. No explorer even approached Ra...

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, ...

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...

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...