Polar Regions category: 485 books
Trial by Ice
The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
“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...
by Hunter Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
The race to reach the South Pole for the first time was an unparalleled adventure in the early twentieth century. South, by historian Hunter Stewart, chronicles the competition between two fierce rivals - Robert F. Scott and Roald Amundsen - to secure their place in history as the first man to lead...
The Viking Anthology
Norse Myths, Icelandic Sagas and Viking Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
This vast ebook Anthology is exploding with masterpieces of world literature, ranging from the peerless Icelandic Sagas, to the Norwegian 'Heimskringla', or the 'Chronicle of the Kings of Norway'. As well as these original texts (in English Translation), are several accompanying great works of scholarship...
So, How Long Have You Been Native?
Life as an Alaska Native Tour Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
So, How Long Have You Been Native? is Alexis C. Bunten’s firsthand account of what it is like to work in the Alaska cultural tourism industry. An Alaska Native and anthropologist, she spent two seasons working for a tribally owned tourism business that markets the Tlingit culture in Sitka. Bunten’s...
by Bob Martin
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
A true short story. In 1920 U.S. Navy free balloon A-5598 smashed down in a remote winter forest in northern Ontario, Canada. The three crewmen, ill-equipped to be lost in a snow-covered woodland, faced a life and death struggle against cold, hunger and exhaustion. But luck was with them. A dog and...
by Frank Arthur Worsley
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 1999
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...
Mischief goes South
Every herring should hang by its own tail
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
‘No sea voyage can be dull for a man who has an eye for the ever-changing sea and sky, the waves, the wind and the way of a ship upon the water.’
So observes H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman in this account of two lengthy voyages in which dull intervals were few and far between.
In 1966, after...
North Pole Tenderfoot
A Rookie Goes on a North Pole Expedition Following in Admiral Peary's Footsteps
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Why would Doug Hall follow in Robert Peary's 1909 sled tracks to the North Pole, despite the grueling terrain and temperatures between 15 and 62 degrees below zero? His goal was to resurrect the spirit of Peary's journey in a world increasingly driven by instant gratification, short term business...
The Roald Amundsen Anthology
'The North West Passage' and, 'The South Pole'
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2013
The Roald Amundsen Anthology: “The Gjoa Expedition 1903-07”, and “The South Pole, an Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram 1910-1912”.
In this Anthology are combined the accounts of both of Amundsen’s two most momentous journeys of exploration; the first successful...
What's In a Name (storey 25 of 40)
Coppermine, N.W.T. Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
On the McKenzie River there were apparent cultural influences from the Hudson Bay Company and French Voyagers, to the men who had worked on the barges and plied the great river looking for adventure, fame and fortune. Seeking gold and the money that the fur trade offered lured people from every walk...
Bath Time (storey 27 of 40)
Coppermine, N.W.T. Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Black round rock faces escape from months of imprisonment below the ice and snow. Heat radiates back from the smooth rock “mountain” that provides the backdrop for the tiny village of Coppermine which is located on the shores of the Arctic Ocean. Small hands escape from mittens and crowd together...
Schools Out for Summer (storey 28 of 40)
Coppermine, N.W.T. Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
In the back of a station wagon five kids pause in their bickering to push noses up against the long side window of the car. Dusk is creeping down the sharp mountain canyons casting a rosy glow over the limestone and shale. Far, far below on the curving highway along the Columbia River, a huge movie...
by Sir Frances Leopold McClintock
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
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...
Wealth Woman
Kate Carmack and the Klondike Race for Gold
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
With the first headlines that screamed “Gold! Gold! Gold!” the rush to the Klondike quickly became the stuff of legend. It was the Wild West all over again, the cowboy hero recast as prospector, a rugged individual who, given the right mix of determination and luck, prevailed against the challenges...