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In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic

In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival...

Author: Valerian Albanov ,  David Roberts
ISBN: 9780679783619
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Including a new Epilogue, this is ""one helluva read"" (""Newsweek"") and a chilling first-person account of extreme...  Read More >>

Scott's Last Expedition

Scott's Last Expedition

Author: Robert Falcon Scott ,  Falcon Scott
ISBN: 9781590480694
Format: Paperback
$79.20

The companion volume to Scott's The Voyage of the Discovery. Here is Captain R.F. Scott's dramatic journal of his...  Read More >>

Children of the Arctic

Children of the Arctic

Author: Marie Peary ,  Josephine Diebitsch Peary
ISBN: 9780898755688
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing...  Read More >>

Give ME My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo / Kenn Harper ; Foreword by Kevin Spacey

Give ME My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New...

Author: Kenn Harper
ISBN: 9781883642532
Format: Hardback
$65.00

"In a story that is peopled with well-known explorers, including Robert Peary, ""Give Me My Father's Body"" tells...  Read More >>

Wings Over the Arctic

Wings Over the Arctic

Author: Mikhail Vodopyanov ,  Mikhail Vasil'evich Vodop'ianov
ISBN: 9781589633858
Format: Paperback
$52.77

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Japan faces the World, 1925-1952

Japan faces the World, 1925-1952

Author: Mary L. Hanneman
ISBN: 9780582368989
Format: Paperback
$52.99

By 1925 the process of Japan's transition to a modern industrialised, westernised state was pretty much complete....  Read More >>

Power and Politics: The Psychology of Soviet-American Partnership

Power and Politics: The Psychology of Soviet-American...

Author: Jerome S. Bernstein
ISBN: 9781570629389
Format: Paperback
$49.99

This book provides in very practical terms a new way of understanding what is happening in Soviet-American relations...  Read More >>

The First Crossing of Greenland

The First Crossing of Greenland

Author: Dr Fridtjof Nansen ,  Hubert Majendie Gepp
ISBN: 9780898753776
Format: Paperback
$79.07

This two-volume work chronicles the first successful crossing of the Greenland interior by Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930)...  Read More >>

Atlas of Exploration

Atlas of Exploration

Author: Shona Grimbly
ISBN: 9781579583118
Format: Hardback
$205.00

A graphic record of humankind's journeys of discovery, from the earliest mariners to today's missions to explore...  Read More >>

Framing Our Past: Constructing Canadian Women's History in the Twentieth Century

Framing Our Past: Constructing Canadian Women's History...

Author: Sharon Anne Cook ,  Lorna R McLean
ISBN: 9780773521728
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Emphasizes the lived experiences of women: their participation in many areas; social rituals with other women; organized...  Read More >>

The Cruise of the Corwin: Muir's Final Great Journey

The Cruise of the Corwin: Muir's Final Great Journey...

Author: John Muir
ISBN: 9781589760226
Format: Paperback
$42.11

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Shackleton's Boat Journey: The Narrative from the Captain of the Endurance

Shackleton's Boat Journey: The Narrative from the Captain...

Author: Frank Arthur Worsley
ISBN: 9781589760905
Format: Paperback
$26.27

Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition was trapped when their ship became stuck in pack ice. This is the captain's...  Read More >>

In the Lena Delta

In the Lena Delta

Author: George W. Melville ,  Melville Philips
ISBN: 9781582183794
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

Jessie Luther at the Grenfell Mission

Jessie Luther at the Grenfell Mission

Author: Ronald Rompkey ,  Ronald Rompkey
ISBN: 9780773521766
Format: Hardback
$171.60

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Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan

Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet...

Author: Artyom Borovik ,  Artem Borovik
ISBN: 9780802137753
Format: Paperback
$36.96

Until his death in 2000, Artyom Borovik was considered one of the preeminent journalists in Russia. With The Hidden...  Read More >>

Gunter's Winter

Gunter's Winter

Author: Juan Manuel Marcos ,  Tracy Karl Lewis
ISBN: 9780820445892
Format: Hardback
$257.14

Gunter's Winter is an exotic fusion of Spanish, Buenos Airean and Paraguayan culture, of intrigue and human relations...  Read More >>

In the Lena Delta: A Narrative of the Search for Lieut.-commander Delong and His Companions Followed by an Account of the Greely Relief E

In the Lena Delta: A Narrative of the Search for Lieut.-commander...

Author: George Melville ,  Melville Philips
ISBN: 9781582183787
Format: Paperback
$65.87

In 1881 George Melville was the engineer aboard the sailing vessel Jeanette when she finally succumbed to the pack...  Read More >>

Conversations with Cuba

Conversations with Cuba

Author: C.Peter Ripley ,  Bob Shacochis
ISBN: 9780820323022
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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Siberian Village: Land and Life in the Sakha Republic

Siberian Village: Land and Life in the Sakha Republic...

Author: Bella Bychkova Jordan ,  Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov
ISBN: 9780816635702
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A fascinating portrait of the history and landscape of this remote settlement. The village of Djarkhan is in the...  Read More >>

Lost Land of Moses: The Age of Discovery on New Brunswick's Salmon Rivers

Lost Land of Moses: The Age of Discovery on New Brunswick's...

Author: Peter Thomas
ISBN: 9780864922939
Format: Paperback
$44.75

In the middle of the nineteenth century, most of New Brunswick was pristine wilderness. But by the end of the century...  Read More >>

First Crossing of the Polar Sea

First Crossing of the Polar Sea

Author: Captain Roald Amundsen ,  Lincoln Ellsworth
ISBN: 9780898752878
Format: Paperback
$73.79

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Viking Age Iceland

Viking Age Iceland

Author: Jesse Byock
ISBN: 9780140291155
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defense forces, no king, no lords,...  Read More >>

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