Polar Regions category: 485 books
by John Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
A mix of history, geography, myth, and personal truth, this book explores the Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetland Islands, and the Weddell Sea—the most visited places in Antarctica. Filled with beautiful photographs by the author from his travels, this record offers a selection of anecdotal...
Mischief in Patagonia
An intolerable deal of sea, one halfpennyworth of mountain
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
'So I began thinking again of those two white blanks on the map, of penguins and humming birds, of the pampas and of gauchos, in short, of Patagonia, a place where, one was told, the natives’ heads steam when they eat marmalade.'
So responded H. W. ‘Bill’ Tilman to his own realisation...
Snow Petrel
(A father-son voyage to the windiest place on the planet)
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
When Ben Tucker and his kid brother Matt decided to sail south in search of icebergs on Ben's small home-built kiwi sloop, their father Jon was allowed to come along as their cabin-boy, on a promise of good behaviour.
The unfolding adventure took them through thick pack ice to become trapped...
by Lonely Planet, Alexis Averbuck, Cathy Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet Antarcticais your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Get up close and personal with the local penguin populations, cruise the picture-perfect...
Penguin-Pedia
Photographs and Facts from One Man's Search for the Penguins of the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Penguins have become a standard fixture in both zoos and imaginations for centuries. But beyond the classic tuxedo markings of the Emperor penguin and what we see in childrens cartoons, how much do we really know about these fascinating creatures? How aware are we of the perpetual danger in which...
Aunt Phil's Trunk
Bringing Alaska's history alive!
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Five features dozens of short stories and hundreds of historical photographs that share the history of Alaska from 1960 to 1984. This fifth book in the Alaska history series highlights the first 25 years of statehood when the optimistic citizens of the Great Land created a government...
Aunt Phil's Trunk
Bringing Alaska's history alive!
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Three entertains readers as they travel through Alaska's history from 1912 to 1935. This book of nonfiction short stories highlights the pioneering spirit of early Alaskans as they enter a new era as a territory of the United States. As with the first two books, Volume Three...
by Pamela R. Stern
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2004
The approximately 150,000 Inuit are indigenous to four nations - Denmark (Greenland), Canada, the United States (Alaska), and Russia - and thus have had very different colonial experiences and participate as citizens of those nations in different ways. Far from being victims of colonialism, Inuit...
by Sue Riches, Victoria Riches
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
"Men like to conquer, fight, or subdue the Arctic, while we had a different attitude. We felt that we had to go along with what we were faced with. . . . We tried to have the Arctic on our side instead of confronting it."
In 1997 a group of 20 women set out to become the...
by Gregory Spatz
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Author Gregory Spatz is distantly related to Sir John Franklin, who was his great-grandmother's uncle. He was also inspired by the traditional 1800s ballad “Lady Franklin’s Dream” which Spatz recorded as a duet with his wife on his solo CD and again on the first Mighty Squirrel CD.
The...
The Longest Winter
Scott's Other Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
“A thrilling account” of a harrowing Antarctic expedition, enriched with the historical journals of the explorers themselves (The New York Times).
Their tents were torn, their food was nearly finished, and the ship had failed to pick them up as planned. Gale-force winds blew, bitter with the...
by David Hirzel
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
There are more famous names than Tom Crean’s from the “heroic age” of Antarctic exploration, but there are few stories as compelling as his. The Antarctic is a harsh place of bitter cold and darkness, where only the strong and resourceful can hope to survive. Crean was such a man. Had he weakened...
Mostly Mischief
Including the first ascent of a mountain to start below sea level
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
'However many times it has been done, the act of casting off the warps and letting go one’s last hold of the shore at the start of a voyage has about it something solemn and irrevocable, like marriage, for better or for worse.’
Mostly Mischief’s ordinary title belies four more extraordinary...
In Mischief's Wake
In the joy of the actors lies the sense of any action. That is the explanation, that the excuse.
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
‘I felt like one who had first betrayed and then deserted a stricken friend; a friend with whom for the past fourteen years I had spent more time at sea than on land, and who, when not at sea, had seldom been out of my thoughts.’
The first of the three voyages described in In Mischief’s...