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  • Ships of Wood and Men of Iron

    A Norwegian-Canadian Saga of Exploration in the High Arctic

    de Gerard Kenney ...
    In the barren lands of Canada far north of the Arctic circle, summers are quick and cool, mere short interruptions in the true business of the polar regions, winter. Winters there can be dangerous with temperatures that plunge to awesome depths during the long, lonely hours of Arctic darkness. Powerful blizzards shriek across the land for days at a time, causing all animal life to seek shelter ... Leer más

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  • Gerard Kenney 3-Book Bundle

    Lake of the Old Uncles / Dangerous Passage / Ships of Wood and Men of Iron

    de Gerard Kenney ...
    Treacherous and remote, the Arctic and the fabled Northwest Passage have long been elusive goals for explorers. Gerard Kenney shares stories of exploration in the Arctic region. This three-book bundle includes:Ships of Wood and Men of Iron: A Norewegian-Canadian Saga of Exploration in the High ArcticA history of explorations of the Arctic in Canada, beginning with Otto Sverdrup's Norwegian ... Leer más

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  • Dangerous Passage

    Issues in the Arctic

    de Gerard Kenney ...
    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 coast was pieced together. But could ships navigate the Northwest Passage to the extent that it ... Leer más

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  • Lake of the Old Uncles

    de Gerard Kenney ...
    Lake of the Old Uncles recounts a trip that began three-quarters of a century ago in a small village inn nestled in the Laurentian hills of French-speaking Quebec. One day, the trip will end at the village cemetery, just one kilometre from the inn. The traveller is the author. The trip is not long, but is rich in rural and natural experiences along the way. Gerard Kenney takes us along the route ... Leer más

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    In "South," Ernest Shackleton recounts his legendary Antarctic expedition aboard the Endurance, which became an emblem of human resilience amid nature's harshest trials. Written in a gripping narrative style, the text merges adventure and descriptive prose, providing a vivid account of the crew's harrowing journey following the ship's demise in 1915. Shackleton's literary context lies within the ... Leer más

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  • Ada Blackjack

    A True Story of Survival in the Arctic

    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Last Viking

    The Life of Roald Amundsen

    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Stowaway

    A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica

    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 ... Leer más

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  • White Eskimo

    Knud Rasmussen's Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic

    Series series Merloyd Lawrence Novels
    Among the explorers made famous for revealing hitherto impenetrable cultures-T. E. Lawrence and Wilfred Thesiger in the Middle East, Richard Burton in Africa-Knud Rasmussen stands out not only for his physical bravery but also for the beauty of his writing. Part Danish, part Inuit, Rasmussen made a courageous three-year journey by dog sled from Greenland to Alaska to reveal the common origins of ... Leer más

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  • Peary to the Pole

    de Walter Lord ...
    Explorer Robert E. Peary's quest for the North Pole—a true Arctic adventure from the #1 New York Times –bestselling author of A Night to Remember ."A master narrator." —Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.On March 1, 1909, only 413 miles of formidable ice separated Robert E. Peary from realizing his lifelong dream of becoming the first man to set foot on the North Po... ... Leer más

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  • Into the Abyss

    An Extraordinary True Story

    de Carol Shaben ...
    Read the "gripping and emotionally affecting" book where four men survived the plane crash. The pilot. A politician. A cop... and the criminal he was shackled to (Washington Post).On an icy night in October 1984, a commuter plane carrying nine passengers crashed in the remote wilderness of northern Alberta, killing six people. Four survived: the rookie pilot, a prominent politician, a cop, and the ... Leer más

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  • Endurance

    Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

    **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 ... Leer más

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