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  • Polaris

    The Chief Scientist's Recollections of the American North Pole Expedition, 1871-73

    by Emil Bessels, William Barr ...
    Series Book 19 - Northern Lights
    Emil Bessels was chief scientist and medical officer on George Francis Hall's ill-fated American North Pole Expedition of 1871-73 on board the ship Polaris. Bessels' book, translated from the German in its entirety for the first time, is one of only two first-hand accounts of the voyage, and it is the only first-hand account of the experiences of the group which stayed with the ship after it ran ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • Endurance

    Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

    by Alfred Lansing ...
    **The legendary and harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackelton’s 1914 shipwreck on Antarctic ice – and how his leadership rescued his crew“One of the greatest adventure stories of our time.” –New York Times Book Review**In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • South: The Story Of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917

    The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917

    by Ernest Henry Shackleton ...
    When Sir Henry Ernest Shackleton was beaten to the South Pole in 1912, he decided to trek across the continent via the pole instead. Before his ship even reached the continent it was crushed in pack ice. Shackleton managed to bring his entire team home by his masterful leadership through a series of incredible events. He has become a cult figure and a role model for great leadership. ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Ada Blackjack

    A True Story of Survival in the Arctic

    by Jennifer Niven ...
    From a #1 New York Times bestselling author comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhabited Arctic island.In September 1921, four young men and Ada Blackjack, a diminutive 25-year-old Inuit woman, ventured deep into the Arctic in a secret attempt to colonize desolate Wrangel Island for Great Britain. Two years later, Ada Blackjack ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Last Viking

    The Life of Roald Amundsen

    by Stephen R. Bown ...
    The authoritative biography of the famous Norwegian polar explorer: "A fascinating account of a complex and driven man" ( Burnaby Now).The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries—the Northwest Passage, the Northeast Passage, the South Pole, and the North ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

    The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

    by David Roberts ...
    His two companions dead, food and supplies vanished in a crevasse, Douglas Mawson was still one hundred miles from camp.On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Lost Men

    The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party

    by Kelly Tyler-Lewis ...
    The untold story of the last odyssey of the heroic age of Antarctic explorationSir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Antarctic endeavor is legend, but for sheer heroism and tragic nobility, nothing compares to the saga of the Ross Sea party. This crew of explorers landed on the opposite side of Antarctica from the Endurance with a mission to build supply depots for Shackleton’s planned crossing of the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Stowaway

    A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica

    by Laurie Gwen Shapiro ...
    The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the most remarkable feat of science and daring of the Jazz Age, The Stowaway is “a thrilling adventure that captures not only the making of a man but of a nation” (David Grann, bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon).It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Around Iceland on Inspiration

    by Riaan Manser ...
    South Africa's best-known adventurer Riaan Manser takes on his toughest – and coldest - challenge ever, to kayak around Iceland accompanied by Dan Skinstad, who suffers from mild cerebral palsy.Confronted by icy seas, raging winter storms and logistical nightmares, the two adventurers overcome daunting obstacles, including coming to terms with how to work together as a team.Around Iceland on ... Read more

    $8.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sir John Franklin: Expeditions to Destiny

    Expeditions to Destiny

    by Anthony Dalton ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    After Royal Navy captain Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1846 while seeking the Northwest Passage, the search for his two ships, Erebus and Terror, and survivors of his expedition became one of the most exhaustive quests of the 19th century. Despite tantalizing clues, the ships were never found, and the fate of Franklin’s expedition passed into legend as one of the North’s great and ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame

    A Life of Louise Arner Boyd

    by Joanna Kafarowski ...
    The first comprehensive biography of Louise Arner Boyd — the intrepid American socialite who reinvented herself as the leading female polar explorer of the twentieth century.Born in the late 1880s to a gritty mining magnate who made his millions in the California gold rush and a well-bred mother descended from one of New York’s distinguished families, society beauty Louise Arner Boyd was raised ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Roald Amundsen's "The North-West Passage": Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Gjoa," 1903-1907. Volume 1.

    by Roald Amundsen ...
    Series series Elibron Classics
    This edition is published in 2 volumes sold separately.
 Elibron Classics. Replica of 1908 edition by Archibald Constable & Company Limited, London.
Oversize maps are available as a free download. 
By Roald Amundsen, with a Supplement by First Lieutenant Hansen, Vice-commander of the Expedition. With about one hundred and thirty-nine illustrations and three maps.
Gjøa was the first vessel to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD