Polar Regions category: 485 books
Ninety Degrees North
The Quest for the North Pole
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The author of Barrow’s Boys offers a fascinating look at the exploration of the Arctic in the nineteenth century.
Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, the Seattle Times, Publishers Weekly, and Time
In the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole...
by David Welky
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
A Booklist Best Literary Travel Book (2017) and Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book (2016)
“A penetrating study of human character in a challenging environment. . . . [David Welky’s] seamless narrative, chilling at times and always thought-provoking, transports the reader to a time when the Arctic...
Sir John Franklin’s Erebus and Terror Expedition
Lost and Found
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin set out on a voyage to find the North-West Passage – the sea route linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. The expedition was expected to complete its mission within three years and return home in triumph but the two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror,...
by A. L. Todd
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
As the debate droned on in Congress about whether to spend money on a rescue team for Lieutenant Adolphus W. Greely and the other men of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition to the Arctic, the explorers were dying one by one from the cold and lack of supplies. Henrietta Greely was determined that if the...
Dangerous Passage
Issues in the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2006
Over the five hundred or so years that man searched for an elusive sea passage from Europe to Asia through the North American land mass, dozens of ships were lost and hundreds of mariners died. Eventually, a sea route stretching through the waters of the archipelago and along Canada’s mainland Arctic...
Canada and the Changing Arctic
Sovereignty, Security, and Stewardship
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Global warming has had a dramatic impact on the Arctic environment, including the ice melt that has opened previously ice-covered waterways. State and non-state actors who look to the region and its resources with varied agendas have started to pay attention. Do new geopolitical dynamics point to...
by Frederick Schwatka
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
These pages narrate the travels, in a popular sense, of an Alaskan exploring expedition. The expedition was organized with seven members at Vancouver Barracks, Washington, and left Portland, Oregon, ascending through the inland passage to Alaska, as far as the Chilkat country. At that point the party...
The Iceland Watch
A Land That Thinks Outwards and Forwards
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
With a population of just 329,000 (barely more than Nottingham), Iceland is the most thinly-populated country in Europe, and 80% of it is uninhabited. Despite this, in the 1100 years since humans first settled there, the Icelanders have built a remarkably resourceful, diverse and robust community - and...
Night Before Christmas (storey 30 of 40)
Coppermine, N.W.T. Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Twas the night before Christmas and all through the houses, not a creature was stirring not even the mouses. (Nee lemmings) All of the people of Coppermine were dressed in their finest with care, Itigi’s (parkas) and Kamiks (home made skin and leather shoes) and clean underwear. Round-faced babies...
Arctic Landscapes and Traditions 3-Book Bundle
Ukkusiksalik / Uvajuq / Thelon
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
From an explorer of the North's cultural landscape, comes the stories and history of remote corners of our North. David F. Pelly gives a rare in-depth account of Inuit history based on oral testimony and historical records.
Includes:
Ukkusiksalik: The People's Story
Ukkusiksalik, now a national...
by Heather E. McGregor
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
This book will be welcomed by educators, administrators, and researchers in Inuit and First Nations communities across the North and anyone interested in the history of education in Canada.
Spirits of Relations (storey 18 of 40)
Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Raw winds rip and tear at a tattered hide that barely keeps the old lady and tiny baby from being frozen. The remnants of a fire sputter and threaten to extinguish itself with every blast of frozen gusts. Old moose and caribou hides have been thrown over wind fallen trees. This shanty provides temporary...
Village of Widows (storey 6 of 40)
Fort Norman, N.W.T., Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
You complain that your life is too fast. That there is not enough time to do all of the things that you have to do, to see the people you have to see. If you truly want to slow your life down get rid of your cell phone, and your computer for that matter. There are few phones in 1966 in Fort Norman....
Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours
With a Discussion of Aircraft in Commerce and Transportation (Illustrations)
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
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CHAPTER I
Some Preliminary Events
"After me cometh a builder. Tell him I, too, have known."Kipling.It is an awful thing to be told that one has made history, or done something historic. Such an accusation implies the duty of living up to other people's...