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A Collection of Documents On Spitzbergen and Greenland

A Collection of Documents On Spitzbergen and Greenland...

Author: Adam White (University of Winchester UK)
ISBN: 9781410204547
Format: Paperback
$91.08

This is a reprint of a Hakluyt Society publication of 1855. It contains: A Translation from F. Martens= Voyage to...  Read More >>

The Worst Journey in the World Lib/E

The Worst Journey in the World Lib/E

Author: Apsley Cherry-Garrard ,  Simon Vance
ISBN: 9780786192427
Format: Audio
$337.92

This gripping story of courage and achievement is an account of Robert Falcon Scott's last fateful expedition to...  Read More >>

The Worst Journey in the World

The Worst Journey in the World

Author: Apsley Cherry-Garrard ,  Simon Vance
ISBN: 9780786190089
Format: Audio
$105.47

One of the youngest members of Scott's team, Apsley Cherry-Garrard was later part of the rescue party that eventually...  Read More >>

Worst Journey in the World

Worst Journey in the World

Author: Apsley Cherry-Garrard ,  Robert Whitfield
ISBN: 9780786132737
Format: Downloadable audio file
$158.27

The Worst Journey in the World is to travel writing what War and Peace is to the novel . . . a masterpiece. --...  Read More >>

Culture, Nation and Identity: The Ukrainian-Russian Encounter (1600-1945)

Culture, Nation and Identity: The Ukrainian-Russian...

Author: Andreas Kappeler ,  Zenon E. Kohut
ISBN: 9781895571479
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Sixteen articles on the Ukrainian-Russian encounter from the early modern period to World War II.  Read More >>

The Radical Right in Germany: 1870 to the Present

The Radical Right in Germany: 1870 to the Present

Author: Lee McGowan
ISBN: 9780582291935
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Tracing the history of right-wing politics through the full span of Germany's life as a nation, Lee McGowan shows...  Read More >>

The Military Dimension: Volume III: The Military Dimension

The Military Dimension: Volume III: The Military Dimension...

Author: I. Gow ,  Y. Hirama
ISBN: 9781349419159
Format: Paperback
$290.37

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True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World

True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World

Author: A W Greely
ISBN: 9781410203359
Format: Paperback
$47.49

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Middle Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century: America, Australia and Britain

Middle Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century: America,...

Author: L. Young
ISBN: 9780333997468
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Drawing on expressive and material culture, Young shows that money was not enough to make the genteel middle class....  Read More >>

The Unquiet Ghost

The Unquiet Ghost

Author: Hochschild
ISBN: 9780618257478
Format: Audio
$39.47

Although some twenty million people died during Stalin's reign of terror, only with the advent of glasnost did Russians...  Read More >>

This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland

This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland

Author: Gretel Ehrlich
ISBN: 9780679758525
Format: Paperback
$50.03

"Encompassing anthropology, history, exploration, travelogue, and memoir, the celebrated author of ""A Match to...  Read More >>

Martha Brae's Two Histories: European Expansion and Caribbean Culture-Building in Jamaica

Martha Brae's Two Histories: European Expansion and...

Author: Jean Besson ,  Sidney Wilfred Mintz
ISBN: 9780807827345
Format: Hardback
$208.43

The settlement of Martha Brae, Jamaica, has witnessed the unfolding of two distinct yet interrelated histories....  Read More >>

A History of Organized Labor in Cuba

A History of Organized Labor in Cuba

Author: Robert J. Alexander
ISBN: 9780275977030
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Starting with the organization of tobacco workers and other groups in the last few years of Spanish colonial rule,...  Read More >>

Martha Brae's Two Histories: European Expansion and Caribbean Culture-Building in Jamaica

Martha Brae's Two Histories: European Expansion and...

Author: Jean Besson ,  Sidney Wilfred Mintz
ISBN: 9780807854099
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The settlement of Martha Brae, Jamaica, has witnessed the unfolding of two distinct yet interrelated histories....  Read More >>

Last Great Quest, The: Captain Scott's Antarctic Sacrifice

Last Great Quest, The: Captain Scott's Antarctic Sacrifice...

Author: Dr Max Jones
ISBN: 9781280752919
Format: Electronic book text
$60.64

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People and the Land: Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia

People and the Land: Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet...

Author: Erich Kasten
ISBN: 9783496027430
Format: Mixed media product
$97.68

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The South Pole

The South Pole

Author: Captain Roald Amundsen
ISBN: 9781404332881
Format: Hardback
$76.53

This fascinating and readable account will appeal to all those interested in the Antarctic region in general.  Read More >>

The South Pole

The South Pole

Author: Roald Amundsen
ISBN: 9781404332898
Format: Paperback
$63.33

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Brezhnev Reconsidered

Brezhnev Reconsidered

Author: E. Bacon ,  M. Sandle
ISBN: 9780333794630
Format: Hardback
$369.60

Leonid Brezhnev was leader of the Soviet Union for almost two decades when it was at the height of its powers. This...  Read More >>

Scott, Shackleton, and Amundsen: Ambition and Tragedy in the Antarctic

Scott, Shackleton, and Amundsen: Ambition and Tragedy...

Author: David Thomson
ISBN: 9781560254225
Format: Paperback
$47.39

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An Account of the Pelew Islands

An Account of the Pelew Islands

Author: Karen L. Nero ,  Nicholas Thomas
ISBN: 9780718501556
Format: Hardback
$686.40

Comprises a critical edition of an 18th-century text describing the wreck of the East India Company packet, the...  Read More >>

Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals

Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals

Author: Research Professor Dominic Lieven
ISBN: 9780300097269
Format: Paperback
$63.23

Focusing on the Tsarist and Soviet empires of Russia, Lieven reveals the nature and meaning of all empires throughout...  Read More >>

Representing the Unrepresentable: Literature of Trauma Under Pinochet in Chile

Representing the Unrepresentable: Literature of Trauma...

Author: Yvonne S. Unnold
ISBN: 9780820456775
Format: Hardback
$152.99

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Arctic Adaptations

Arctic Adaptations

Author: Marcia Levenson ,  Marcia Levenson
ISBN: 9780874516333
Format: Paperback
$92.40

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Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia

Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of...

Author: Bruce Lincoln
ISBN: 9780465083244
Format: Paperback
$28.99

A fitting testament to [Lincoln's] literary skill. It evokes vividly the unconscionable gulf between the life of...  Read More >>

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