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  • The Iceland Watch

    A Land That Thinks Outwards and Forwards

    by David Whittaker, Gisli Thorsteinsson ...
    With a population of just 329,000 (barely more than Nottingham), Iceland is the most thinly-populated country in Europe, and 80% of it is uninhabited. Despite this, in the 1100 years since humans first settled there, the Icelanders have built a remarkably resourceful, diverse and robust community - and they have never had to go to war. In fact, in 2013 the United Nations ranked Iceland the 13th ... Read more

    $4.00 USD

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  • Endurance

    Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

    by Alfred Lansing ...
    **The legendary and harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackelton’s 1914 shipwreck on Antarctic ice – and how his leadership rescued his crew“One of the greatest adventure stories of our time.” –New York Times Book Review**In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In ... Read more

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  • Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

    The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

    by David Roberts ...
    His two companions dead, food and supplies vanished in a crevasse, Douglas Mawson was still one hundred miles from camp.On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Best Survival Stories Ever Told

    Edited by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Series series Best Stories Ever Told
    This collection of classic tales comprises over thirty accounts of true-life adventure taken from contemporary memoirs, letters, and journals. They span the years from 1800 to the end of the twentieth century, in a period which can be termed the modern age of exploration. Among the writers are:Ernest ShackletonDouglas MawsonSalomon AndréeSebastian SnowEd DrummondEdmund HillaryMaurice HerzogLewis ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Man Who Ate His Boots

    The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage

    by Anthony Brandt ...
    After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled Northwest Passage. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound waters of the Canadian Arctic in search of a route, and then, after 1845, to find ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Alone Against the Arctic

    by Anthony Dalton ...
    In the summer of 1984, Anthony Dalton embarked on a near-fatal voyage in a small open boat along the wild northwest coast of Alaska, attempting a solo transit of the Northwest Passage. His sea quest ran parallel to an arduous relief expedition undertaken in 1897-98, when the officers of the US cutter Bear set out to reach eight whaling ships that were stranded in thick ice, their crews on the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Romanov Sisters: The Life and Death of Royalty

    by Matthew Hollinder ...
    The Romanov sisters made up the last of a great dynasty that had been in history for years before. The time they were alive marked an era of significant changes to Russia, both the political and the advancement of the laws. They seem quite unsuited to the role and in their recorded history they seem to be more concerned about themselves even though they cannot be fully faulted as they had been ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Peary to the Pole

    by Walter Lord ...
    Explorer Robert E. Peary's quest for the North Pole—a true Arctic adventure from the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of A Night to Remember ."A master narrator." —Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.On March 1, 1909, only 413 miles of formidable ice separated Robert E. Peary from realizing his lifelong dream of becoming the first man to set foot on the North Po... ... Read more

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  • Remembering Bluie West One: The Arctic Airfield That Helped Win the Second World War

    by Daniel Ford ...
    In June 1940, the U.S. Coast Guard set out to survey the coast of Greenland, the largest island in the world--and the coldest. A year and a half before the country entered the Second World War, the United States was looking for a place to put an airfield that would serve as a bridge to Europe. (For the same reason, British troops seized Iceland; they would later be replaced by American soldiers.) ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Ukkusiksalik

    The People's Story

    by David F. Pelly ...
    The remarkable history of a pocket of the remote Arctic, and the oral testimony from the last Inuit elders to live there.A coastal region of rolling tundra just west of Hudson Bay, Ukkusikslaik was established as a national park in 2003. In earlier times this historic region was the principal hunting ground for several Inuit families and was criss-crossed by missionaries, Mounties, and traders. ... Read more

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  • Spirit of Spring (storey 5 of 40)

    Fort Norman, N.W.T., Canada

    by Dawn Kostelnik ...
    Series Book 5 - The White Girl
    Do you remember when you were a little kid and an adult tells you that you have to do something that makes absolutely no sense to you? I mean even at an extremely young age you know better. But this is an adult and this is that era when grown ups were ALWAYS right. I remember thinking that possibly, when I am older, I will understand this, there will be a reason for this…. I watch as my feet ... Read more

    $1.00 USD

  • Grettir the Outlaw A Story of Iceland

    by S. Baring-Gould ...

    $5.99 USD