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  • In the Land of White Death

    An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic

    Traduit par Alison Anderson ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • South (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. The Endurance Shipwreck, Weddell Sea Pack Ice, and an Antarctic Survival Memoir of Leadership and Resilience

    South is Ernest Shackleton's gripping account of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917, a journey that became one of the great survival narratives of modern exploration. Written in a plain, disciplined prose shaped by journals, ship's records, and firsthand recollection, the book combines documentary precision with understated drama. Its literary context lies between Victorian ... En savoir plus

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  • In the Kingdom of Ice

    The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Best Survival Stories Ever Told

    Modifié par Jon E. Lewis ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Trial by Ice

    The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition

    par Richard Parry ...
    “An extraordinary real-life adventure of men battling the elements and themselves, told with ice-cold precision.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred review)In the dark years following the Civil War, America’s foremost Arctic explorer, Charles Francis Hall, became a figure of national pride when he embarked on a harrowing, landmark expedition. With financial backing from Congress and the personal support of ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Arctic Journals of John Rae

    par John Rae ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The Man Who Ate His Boots

    The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Arctic Obsession

    The Lure of the Far North

    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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The Great White South

    being an account of experiences with Captain Scott's South pole expedition and of the nature life of the Antarctic

    Collections series BS Publishing
    Photographer Ponting joined Robert Scott's expedition to the South Pole in 1910. His remarkable book not only tells of the life among Scott's crew on board and at camp, but also provides numerous photos depicting the Antarctic landscape. Ponting also recorded, both in print and on film, habits of the native penguins and seals, and shares stories of his arrival at volcanic Mount Erebus, nearly ... En savoir plus

    $2.81 CAD

  • The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas

    Collections series Classics West Collection
    In 1845, Sir John Franklin set off from England to locate and chart the elusive Northwest Passage. He and his crew of 129 men never returned.Over the following decade, forty expeditions were launched in an effort to establish the fate of the missing men. But it wasn't until 1854 that traces of their demise were discovered along the western shore of King William Island.However, without proof, ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Franklin

    Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation

    par Andrew Lambert ...
    In 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin led a large, well equipped expedition to complete the conquest of the Canadian Arctic, to find the fabled North West Passage connecting the North Atlantic to the North Pacific. Yet Franklin, his ships and his men were fated never to return. The cause of their loss remains a mystery. In Franklin, Andrew Lambert presents a gripping account of the worst catastrophe ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Sir John Franklin: Expeditions to Destiny

    Expeditions to Destiny

    par Anthony Dalton ...
    After Royal Navy captain Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1846 while seeking the Northwest Passage, the search for his two ships, Erebus and Terror, and survivors of his expedition became one of the most exhaustive quests of the 19th century. Despite tantalizing clues, the ships were never found, and the fate of Franklin’s expedition passed into legend as one of the North’s great and ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD