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Classics West Collection eBook Series

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  • John Rae's Arctic Correspondence, 1844-1855

    by John Rae ...
    Series series Classics West Collection
    Although Arctic explorer and Hudson Bay Company surveyor John Rae (1813–1893) travelled and recorded the final uncharted sections of the Northwest Passage, he is best known for his controversial discovery of the fate of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1845. Based on evidence given to him by local Inuit, Rae determined that Franklin’s crew had resorted to cannibalism in their final, desperate days. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • South: The Story Of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917

    The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917

    by Ernest Henry Shackleton ...
    When Sir Henry Ernest Shackleton was beaten to the South Pole in 1912, he decided to trek across the continent via the pole instead. Before his ship even reached the continent it was crushed in pack ice. Shackleton managed to bring his entire team home by his masterful leadership through a series of incredible events. He has become a cult figure and a role model for great leadership. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • In the Kingdom of Ice

    The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

    by Hampton Sides ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and heroism in the Gilded Age from the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. • “A splendid book in every way…a marvelous nonfiction thriller.” —The Wall Street JournalOn July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from San Francisco on the USS Jeanette ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Nathaniel's Nutmeg

    How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History

    by Giles Milton ...
    'To write a book that makes the reader sit in a trance, lost in his passionate desire to pack a suitcase and go to the fabulous place - that, in the end, is something one would give a sack of nutmeg for' Philip Hensher, The SpectatorIn 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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 CAD

  • Lost Beneath the Ice

    The Story of HMS Investigator

    by Andrew Cohen ...
    When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in the 1840s, the British Admiralty launched the largest rescue mission in its history. Among the search vessels was HMS Investigator, which left England in 1850 under the command of Captain Robert McClure. While the ambitious McClure never found Franklin, he and his crew did discover the fabled Northwest Passage.Like Franklin’s ships, though, ... Read more

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  • Endurance

    An Epic of Polar Adventure

    by Frank Arthur Worsley ...
    The legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of HMS Endurance.You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. "What the ice gets," replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's unflappable leader, "the ice keeps." ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Arctic Journals of John Rae

    by John Rae ...
    Series series Classics West
    Scottish doctor and explorer John Rae is a controversial figure in the history of the Arctic. He began his career with the Hudson's Bay Company as a surgeon in Moose Factory, Ontario, where he learned to survey, live off the land, and travel great distances on snowshoes. These skills served him well when, in 1846, he was charged with completing the geography of the northern shore of North America ... Read more

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  • In the Land of White Death

    An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic

    by Valerian Albanov, Jon Krakauer ...
    Translated by Alison Anderson ...
    Series series Modern Library Exploration
    “One helluva read.”—Newsweek • “Gripping.”—Outside • “Spellbinding.”—Associated Press • “Powerful.”—New YorkIn 1912, the Saint Anna, a Russian exploration vessel in search of fertile hunting grounds, was frozen into the polar ice cap, trapping her crew aboard. For nearly a year and a half, they struggled to stay alive. As all hope of rescue faded, they realized their best chance of survival might ... Read more

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  • 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

    $14.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Arctic Obsession

    The Lure of the Far North

    by Alexis S. Troubetzkoy ...
    More than an account of the human delusion and fortitude in penetrating one of the most inhospitable areas of the world, Arctic Obsession goes beyond the gripping history of northern exploration, of the searches for the Northwest and Northeast Passages.From early medieval times to the twenty-first century, what has been the beguiling attraction of the North? What manner of men were they who boldly ... Read more

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  • Eyewitness Accounts With Scott in the Antarctic

    by Herbert Ponting ...
    Series series Eyewitness Accounts
    'Mr Ponting has it in his power greatly to delight!' Lady Kathleen Scott Herbert Ponting was the photographer on Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic in 1910 - 13. Based at the expedition hut at Cape Evans, Ponting spent the summers studying the continent's wildlife and landscape. He records close encounters with orcas and leopard seals on the ice at Cape Evans, expeditions to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD