Polar Regions category: 485 books
Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube
Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman reclaiming her courage in the stark landscapes of the north.
By the time Blair Braverman was eighteen, she had left her home in California, moved to arctic Norway to learn to drive sled dogs, and found work as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska....
by Heather Rossiter
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Antarctic Diaries of the Heroic Era
Imperfect records yet the best available as exemplified by the 1911-1913 Antarctic Diary of Charles Turnbull Harrisson, Western Base party, Australasian Antarctic Expedition
The centenary of the departure of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE), celebrated...
The North West Passage Exploration Anthology
The Personal Accounts of the Explorers of the North-West Passage
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
“The Northwest Passage Exploration Anthology”, features the first-hand personal accounts of explorers: Roald Amundsen, Robert McClure, John Rae, John Franklin, Thomas Simpson, Peter Warren Dease, William Edward Parry and Richard Hakluyt.
This book charts the full history of the exploration...
To the Edges of the Earth
1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
*** National Outdoor Book Award WINNER! ***
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a "suspenseful" (WSJ) and "adrenaline-fueled" (Outside) entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time: in 1909 three daring expeditions–led by Ernest Shackleton, Robert...
by Michael Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2006
Irishman Francis Crozier was a major figure in nineteenth-century polar exploration. His voyages with Parry, Ross and Franklin lifted the veil from the frozen wastes of the Arctic and Antarctic, paving the way for Amundsen, Scott and Shackleton. The Antarctic cape named after him was immortalised...
An Empire of Ice
Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
A Pulitzer Prize–winning author examines South Pole expeditions, “wrapping the science in plenty of dangerous drama to keep readers engaged” (Booklist).
An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration—placing the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen,...
From Pole to Pole
Roald Amundsen?s Journey in Flight
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Roald Amundsen was the most successful polar explorer of his era using sledges, dogs, skis, and ships. He is mainly remembered for being the first man to reach the South Pole on December 14, 1911. What is less often remembered is that he was also the first man to reach the North Pole on May 12, 1926,...
Mawson's Will
The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Mawson's Will is the dramatic story of what Sir Edmund Hillary calls "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history." For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced some of the most daunting conditions ever known to man: blistering wind, snow, and cold; loss of his...
Harry's Arctic Heroes
Walking with the Wounded on the Expedition of a Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
In April 2011, four soldiers - each a veteran of recent conflicts, who suffered devastating injuries in the line of duty - set out on an extraordinary challenge: a two-hundred mile trek, unsupported, to the North Pole.
Joined by patron Prince Harry, the charity founders, a polar guide and a...
The Last Gentleman Adventurer
Coming of Age in the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
"This is a great book about life at remote bases in Canada's far north as seen by a young English boy who went there by himself to see the world and got more than he could have bargained for. Beautifully written." --Sir Ranulph Fiennes
"As spare, gleaming, and exhilarating as...
The Frozen Frontier
Polar Bound through the Northwest Passage
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
The Northwest Passage proved so elusive for so long that many sailors and explorers believed it didn't actually exist. A sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Arctic archipelago, it wasn't until Roald Amundsen's 1903–06 voyage that the Northwest Passage's existence was...
The Ice Master
The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
The Karluk set out in 1913 in search of an undiscovered continent, with the largest scientific staff ever sent into the Arctic. Soon after, winter had begun, they were blown off course by polar storms, the ship became imprisoned in ice, and the expedition was abandoned by its leader. Hundreds of miles...
Here Comes the Sun, It's Alright (storey 32 of 40)
Coppermine, N.W.T. Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Hi Ho, Hi Ho it’s off to school we go! Grace’s Uncle Allen shows up at our house with kids in tow. He has devised a system that enables all of the school kids who live by the Arctic Ocean to get to their classes safely and on time!
Our hours of operation have changed. In an experiment,...
Terra Incognita
Travels in Antarctica
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. For centuries, Antarctica has captured the imagination of our greatest scientists and explorers, lingering in the spirit long after their return. Shackleton called it "the last...