Polar Regions category: 485 books
by Samual Hall Young
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
In the summer of 1879 I was stationed at Fort Wrangell in southeastern Alaska, whence I had come the year before, a green young student fresh from college and seminary – very green and very fresh – to do what I could towards establishing the white man's civilization among the Thlinget Indians. I had very many things to learn and many more to unlearn.
Empire Antarctica
Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
“It is difficult to read this engaging memoir without a smile on one’s face . . . moments of sheer joy . . . [a] mesmerizing and memorable book.” —The Economist
Chosen as a Book of the Year by the Scotsman, the Financial Times, and the Sunday Herald.
Gavin Francis fulfilled a...
The Magnetic North
Notes from the Arctic Circle
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title
More than a decade ago, Sara Wheeler traveled to Antarctica to understand a continent nearly lost to myth and lore. In the widely acclaimed, bestselling Terra Incognita, she chronicled her quest to find a hidden history buried in Antarctica's...
Red Summer
The Danger, Madness, and Exaltation of Salmon Fishing in a Remote Alaskan Village
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
A vivid, unforgettable account of the danger, pain, and joy of working on a salmon fishing boat and living in a small village on the farthest edge of Alaska
Set in the tiny Native village of Egegik on the shores of Alaska's Bristol Bay, Bill Carter's Red Summer is the thrilling story of one...
Trawler
A Journey Through the North Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
Having survived Borneo, Amazonia, and the Congo, the indefatigable Redmond O’Hanlon sets off on his next adventure: his own perfect storm, in the wild waters off the northern tip of Scotland. Equipped with a fancy Nikon, an excessive supply of socks, and no seamanship whatsoever, O’Hanlon joins...
by Hudson Stuck
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
THIS volume deals with a series of journeys taken with a dog team over the winter trails in the interior of Alaska. The title might have claimed fourteen or fifteen thousand miles instead of ten, for the book was projected and the title adopted some years ago, and the journeys have continued. But ten thousand is a good round titular number, and is none the worse for being well within the mark.
Roald Amundsen et la course au pôle Sud
La passion de l’exploration polaire
Language: French
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Roald Amundsen et la course au pôle Sud en moins d’une heure !La fin du XIXe siècle marque le commencement de la conquête des pôles. Faisant naître une véritable compétition internationale, la course aux pôles servira de cadre aux exploits de...
North Pole Legacy
The Search for the Arctic Offspring of Robert Peary and Matthew Henson
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
North Pole Legacy tells the story of two men whose existence was for decades nothing more than a popular legend. But that rumor was finally verified in 1986 when author S. Allen Counter journeyed to northern Greenland, and met this pair of remarkable men.
Counter had long been an admirer of...
A Journey for the Ages
Matthew Henson and Robert Peary?s Historic North Pole Expedition
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
In an era when segregation thrived and Jim Crow reigned supreme, adventurer Matthew A. Henson defied racial stereotypes. During his teenage years, Henson sailed on vessels that journeyed across the globe, and it is those experiences that caught the attention of famed arctic explorer Matthew Peary....
The Ice Pilots
Flying with the Mavericks of the Great White North
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
As seen on TV!
The Ice Pilots follows renegade Arctic airline Buffalo Airways, and pilots who defy the cold and the competition by using WWII era propeller planes likes the DC-3 to haul vital fuel, supplies, and passengers to remote outposts across the world’s last great wilderness. From...
The Stowaway
A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the most remarkable feat of science and daring of the Jazz Age, The Stowaway is “a thrilling adventure that captures not only the making of a man but of a nation” (David Grann, bestselling author...
by Lucille Recht Penner
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Shackleton’s Antarctic journey took courage and perseverance. Now his story is told in a full-color early chapter book!
In 1914, Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out for the South Pole. They never made it. Within sight of land, the ship ran into dangerous waters filled with chunks of ice. Then...
by W P Snow
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
A journey to the home of the Esquimaux in Greenland during the mid Nineteenth Century exploring the Native customs and habits.
Sir John Franklin: Expeditions to Destiny
Expeditions to Destiny
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
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...