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'An elegant, densely textured work, like a tapestry … A welcome contribution to polar studies.' '[MacInness] handles the whole thing with masterly skill…takes us to the heart of the hope, love, anguish and grief' The men of Captain Scott's Polar Party were heroes of their age, enduring tremendous hardships to further the reputation of the Empire they served by reaching the South Pole. But they were also husbands, fathers, sons and brothers. For...
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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 ran rampant. Was it an open sea? Was it a portal to new worlds within the globe? Or was it just a wilderness of ice? When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic...
3) Ice: Poems
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In Siberia's Yakutia region, animal remains up to fifty thousand years old have reemerged due to climate change. Ice is an index of findings from the places most buried by time-in permafrost or in memory-and their careful excavations.
"I am asking how much more / I have to learn from this," David Keplinger writes. "You are asking that same question." As Earth's ancient ephemera floats to its rapidly liquifying surface, he turns to our...
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Dinosaurs of Darkness opens a doorway to a fascinating former world, between 100 million and 120 million years ago, when Australia was far south of its present location and joined to Antarctica. Dinosaurs lived in this polar region.
How were the polar dinosaurs discovered? What do we now know about them? Thomas H. Rich and Patricia Vickers-Rich, who have played crucial roles in their discovery, describe how they and others collected the fossils indispensable...
5) Antarctica
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A harsh and icy land isolated at the far southern reaches of the globe, Antarctica is the most recently discovered of the continents.
Rookie Read-About: Continents series gives the youngest reader (Ages 3-6) an introduction to the components that make each continent distinctive and exceptional. Readers will get to know each continents' geography, history, and wildlife.
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"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 Arctic wastes and the gentle, stoic Eskimos who had mastery of this realm . . . The book evokes the frozen seas, whale hunts, snow plains and storms that intimidated those...
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Polar explorers were the superstars of the "heroic age" of exploration, a period spanning the Victorian and Edwardian eras. In Polar Wives, Kari Herbert reveals the unpredictable, often heartbreaking lives of seven remarkable women whose husbands became world-famous for their Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. As the daughter of a polar explorer, Herbert brings a unique and intimate perspective to these stories.
In her portraits of the gifted sculptor...
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"Mr. Jarvis's tribute to Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition has had a danger and heroism that are worthy of the original." -The Guardian
In this extraordinary adventure memoir and tie-in to the PBS documentary, Tim Jarvis, one of the world's leading explorers, describes his modern-day journey to retrace, for the first time ever-and in period clothing and gear-the legendary 1914 expedition of Sir Ernest Shackleton.
In early 1914, British explorer...
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Poppy's Planet is a whimsical rhyming story about a magical flying penguin named Poppy and the world around us. Upset about the damage and destruction caused to our planet, Poppy sets out to make us all aware of how we can save the world together!
A huge success when first released in the USA in 2013, Poppy's Planet was the first book released by transatlantic author and illustrator duo Russ Brown and Jamie Cosley. A superheroic story about a magical...
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Mom's Choice Awards Ganador de la Medalla de Oro!¿Qué harías si tu casa estuviera cubierta de baba, y encontrarás una puerta brillante que te llevará al Polo Norte?Allie Simonson y su mejor amigo, Ryan, tienen que lidiar con la misma exacta situación.Al momento de atravesar la puerta brillante, ellos entran al mundo mágico del Polo Norte, donde Santa y sus elfos se enfrentan a una situación pegajosa.¿Acaso Allie y Ruan podrán ayudar a Santa...
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À l'occasion d'un congé sabbatique, Guillaume décide, avec son épouse, de passer plus de temps avec leurs jeunes enfants. Cette année, ils la passent en Polynésie française et explorent l'archipel des îles Marquises. Véritable source de découvertes, de réflexion et d'émerveillement, il vous invite à le suivre sur les traces de son périple riche en rencontres extraordinaires et intrigantes…
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Guillaume Duvivier...
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"…the best life of Franklin yet produced." Arctic Book Review
Sir John Franklin was many things in his life: an officer in the great naval battles of Copenhagen and Trafalgar; governor of Van Diemen's land; an explorer from Australia to the Arctic, but it is for his mysterious death and the deaths of his 128 crew that he is remembered today. The mystery of the disappearance of the Franklin Expedition to the Northwest Passage has captivated thousands...
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From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present.
Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, and understanding. In this endlessly inventive, riveting book, Raffles enters these gaps, drawing together threads of geology, history, literature,...
14) To the Ice
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Three children go on a polar expedition in this thrilling adventure story for newly independent readers that blurs realism and imagination.
Ida, Max, and Jack go to the creek one winter's day. They play on an ice floe then find themselves floating away-all the way to the polar ice, with just a box, a branch and some sandwiches.
"You probably don't think it's true, and we didn't either, not even while it was happening..."
They find an old hut,...
15) Arctic Fox
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Follow an arctic fox through its day as it eats, sleeps, and cares for its young.
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The stark, vast beauty of the remote landscape of Arctic Europe has been the focus of human exploration for thousands of years. In this striking blend of travel writing, history, and mythology, Gavin Francis offers a unique portrait of the northern fringes of Europe. His journey begins in the Shetland Islands, takes him to the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland, Svalbard, and Lapland.
Following in the footsteps of the area's early pioneers, the author observes...
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"Deliciously playful and imaginative."-Kirkus
Benny loves bananas. He eats them morning, noon, and night. He even rides a bike with a yellow banana seat. In fact, Benny has a secret, he hopes one day he will turn into a banana! And if there is one thing Benny knows, it's that with a little imagination anything is possible.
"An engaging and endearing story about a boy who loves bananas and dinosaurs so much that one day using his imagination he...
18) Arctic Dreams
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In his National Book Award–winning masterwork about imagination and desire in a northern landscape, revered writer Barry Lopez carries readers on a breathtaking journey into the heart of one of the world's last frontiers In this award-winning classic, Barry Lopez explores the ways the human imagination engages with a landscape at once barren and beautiful, perilous and alluring, austere yet teeming with vibrant life, and shot through with human...
19) Tenzing Norgay
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From the bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, Tenzing Norgay tells the story of this brave mountain climber.
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During the 1980s, biologist David Campbell spent three summers in Antarctica, researching its surprisingly plentiful wildlife. In The Crystal Desert, he combines travelogue, nature writing and science history to tell the story of life's tenacity on the coldest of Earth's continents.
Between scuba expeditions in Admiralty Bay, Campbell remembers the explorers who discovered Antarctica, the whalers and sealers who despoiled it, and the scientists who...
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