Polar Regions category: 485 books
Norse Greenland
A Controlled Experiment in Collapse--A Selection from Collapse (Penguin Tracks)
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
A timely and fascinating exploration of the collapse of prehistoric Norse society in Greenland—excerpted from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jared Diamond’s Collapse
This excerpt from the New York Times–bestselling book Collapse takes a timely and fascinating look at prehistoric...
by Matthew Hollinder
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
The Romanov sisters made up the last of a great dynasty that had been in history for years before. The time they were alive marked an era of significant changes to Russia, both the political and the advancement of the laws. They seem quite unsuited to the role and in their recorded history they seem...
by Nicolas Forgue
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Welcome to this illustrated guide for the trip to Iceland. Iceland is a beautiful country with an extraordinary nature. It is one of the most beautiful destinations. You can see geological and natural phenomena that you will not find anywhere else in the world. Come discover this volcanic island,...
Titanic Scandal: The Trial of the Mount Temple
The Trial of the Mount Temple
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
From the day she sank in April 1912 to the present, one of the enduring mysteries of the Titanic disaster was the singlefunneled, fourmasted mystery ship, sighted as the White Star liner, outward bound on her maiden voyage, began to slip beneath the calm waters of the icebergstrewn North Atlantic.
The...
Ukkusiksalik
The People's Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2016
The remarkable history of a pocket of the remote Arctic, and the oral testimony from the last Inuit elders to live there.
A coastal region of rolling tundra just west of Hudson Bay, Ukkusikslaik was established as a national park in 2003. In earlier times this historic region was the principal...
Antarctica
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
In this addition to the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, David Day examines the most forbidding and formidably inaccessible continent on Earth. For over a century following its discovery by European explorers in 1820, Antarctica played host to competing claims by rival nations vying for access...
Edge of the World
Ross Island, Antarctica A Personal and Historical Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, Tragedy, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2001
Writer and explorer Charles Neider made his first trip to Antarctica in 1969, achieving a lifelong goal of seeing the frozen continent with his own eyes. During this visit and a return trip in 1970, both backed by the U. S. Navy and the National Science Foundation, Neider discovered the rigor and...
Bloody Falls of the Coppermine
Madness and Murder in the Arctic Barren Lands
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In the winter of 1913, high in the Canadian Arctic, two Catholic priests set out on a dangerous mission to do what no white men had ever attempted: reach a group of utterly isolated Eskimos and convert them. Farther and farther north the priests trudged, through a frigid and bleak country known as...
Faces of the North
The Ethnographic Photography of John Honigmann
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2004
John J. Honigmann was an anthropologist of rare energy and talent. In addition to writing numerous books and dozens of articles, he is the only anthropologist whose research and field experience extend across the three northern culture areas of Canada – the Western Subarctic, the Eastern Subarctic...
by Gordon Gray
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
On a blustery, West Highland summer’s day in the early 1950s, a black-hulled mail steamer ploughed its way northwards from Mallaig up through the Sound of Sleat between the mainland of Scotland and the Isle of Skye. The spray from its bow wave flew high up her sides and dark smoke was tugged from...
From Far and Wide
A Complete History of Canada's Arctic Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
Is the Canadian North a state of mind or simply the lands and waters above the 60th parallel? In searching for the ill-fated Franklin Expedition in the 19th century, Britain's Royal Navy mapped and charted most of the Arctic Archipelago. In 1874 Canadian Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie agreed to...
Aunt Phil's Trunk
Bringing Alaska's history alive!
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
Author Laurel Downing Bill continues to bring Alaska history alive in “Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume Four.” Following in the fast-paced and entertaining footsteps of the previous three volumes, Volume Four captures the essence of life in Alaska between 1935 and 1960. Its easy-to-read nonfiction short...
Aunt Phil's Trunk
Bringing Alaska's history alive!
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
The critically acclaimed Aunt Phil's Trunk Alaska history series by Laurel Downing Bill is noted for its easy-to-read short stories and hundreds of historical photographs that complement the entertaining nonfiction writing. Suitable for ages 9 to 99, the first book in the series shares stories from early Alaska up to about 1900.
by Felicity Aston
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Could YOU ski to the South Pole?
That was the challenge that British adventurer Felicity Aston put to women from around the Commonwealth, as she set out to create the most international all-female expedition ever to the Pole. The team would not be experienced explorers but ‘ordinary’ women...