Polar Regions

John Harrison's Forgotten Footprints is the untold story of the sailors, sealers and eccentrics who discovered the last continent: Antarctica. A thrilling record of lost triumph and tragedy, a saga of adventure and ambition against all odds, and a ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861519634Author June RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo Books

This under-documented expedition was a pivotal moment in the annals of polar exploration and was the starting point, in historical terms, of revealing the great unknown continent of Antarctica. It was the first time in nearly 70 years since Captain James...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471404200Author Scott CookmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375754722Author Fridtjof NansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 650g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312206550Author William Laird McKinlayFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint GriffinPublisher GriffinWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 13mm

People have perennially projected their fantasies onto the North as a frozen no-man's-land full of marauding Vikings or as the unspoiled landscape of a purer, more elemental form of life. Bernd Brunner recovers the encounters of adventurers with its...

In 2014 media around the world buzzed with news that an archaeological team from Parks Canada had located and identified the wreck of HMS Erebus, the flagship of Sir John Franklin's lost expedition to find the Northwest Passage. Finding Franklin outlines...

"These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale." So penned Captain Robert Falcon Scott in 1912 as he confronted defeat and death in the crippling subzero temperatures of Antarctica. In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the interrupted...

The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II."An absolute joy...Wanderlust...

Great explorers are known for their hard-earned skills and meticulously honed character traits which have made their astonishing endeavours possible. Valuable lessons are waiting to be learned from the feats attained by the most revered names in...

In this new collection, Kenn Harper shares tales of Inuit and Christian beliefs and how these came to coexist-and sometimes clash-in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During this period, Anglican and Catholic missionaries came to the North to...

Understanding Disability Throughout History explores seldom-heard voices from the past by studying the hidden lives of disabled people before the concept of disability existed culturally, socially and administratively. The book focuses on Iceland from...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9780679783619Author Valerian AlbanovFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Modern Library...

Antarctica, the last place on Earth, is not famous for its cuisine. Yet it is famous for stories of heroic expeditions in which hunger was the one spice everyone carried. At the dawn of Antarctic cuisine, cooks improvised under inconceivable hardships,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771641739Author Owen BeattieFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Greystone BooksPublisher Greystone BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619491878Author Apsley Cherry-GarrardFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Empire BooksPublisher Empire BooksWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486477329Author Apsley Cherry-GarrardFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017.'Ed O'Loughlin is a skilled cartographer of both the Arctic and the human heart. What a magnificent novel' Ron Rash'A brilliant paean to the obsessions of the polar explorers . . ...

In 1909, two men laid rival claims to this crown jewel of exploration. A century later, the battle rages still. This book is about one of the most enduring and vitriolic feuds in the history of exploration. "What a consummate cur he is," said Robert...

"The Southern Ocean is a wild and elusive place, an ocean like no other. With its waters lying between the Antarctic continent and the southern coastlines of Australia, New Zealand, South America, and South Africa, it is the most remote and inaccessible...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510710757Author Wilson McOristFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Sky Pony PressPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

North Pole Legacy tells the story of two men whose existence was for decades nothing more than a popular legend. But that rumor was finally verified in 1986 when author S. Allen Counter journeyed to northern Greenland, and met this pair of remarkable men...

Part of the What Everyone Needs to Know (R) series, David Day's book on Antarctica examines the most forbidding and formidably inaccessible continent on Earth. Antarctica was first discovered by European explorers in 1820, and for over a century...

Hans Egede's remarkable 1770-1778 journals were first published in 1818 when the British launched their great nineteenth-century Arctic explorations and such information was in enormous demand. The coast of eastern Greenland had been virtually...

In The Greening of Antarctica Alessandro Antonello investigates the development of an international regime of environmental protection and management between the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959 and the signing of the Convention on the...

In April 1852 Emile Frederic de Bray sailed down the Thames on board the Resolute, part of Sie Edward Belcher's Arctic Squadron in search of Sir John Franklin and his men, missing since the summer of 1845. De Bray's diaries of his years with Resolute...

Part of the What Everyone Needs to Know (R) series, David Day's book on Antarctica examines the most forbidding and formidably inaccessible continent on Earth. Antarctica was first discovered by European explorers in 1820, and for over a century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307946911Author Hampton SidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 448gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a riveting account of the great expeditions of Antarctica's Heroic Age that restores their status as grand scientific enterprises Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956887801Author Christopher RoutledgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 47Imprint Long Lane PressPublisher Long Lane Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199861453Author David DayFormat HardbackPage Count 642Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 155mm * 51mm

In the fifth volume of the In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History series, Kenn Harper shares tales of European explorers who came to the Arctic seeking adventure, riches, and the elusive Northwest Passage, and Inuit they encountered there...

In 1910 Roald Amundsen set off from Oslo toward the North Pole but soon received word that two Americans Frederick Cook and Robert Peary each claimed to have reached the Pole ahead of him. Devastated, Amundsen famously went south. For years Cook and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783342457Author Fridtjof NansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Gibson Square Books LtdPublisher Gibson Square Books LtdWeight(grams) 531g

Perpetually covered in ice and snow, the mountainous Antarctic Peninsula stretches southwardd towards the South Pole where it merges with the largest and coldest mass of ice anywhere on the planet. Yet far from being an otherworldly "Pole Apart," the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorRobert Bunes started his career as a General Practioner in medicine, but spent most of his career as a Legal Psychiatrist specializing in civil litigation cases...

In this third volume of In Those Days, Harper shares stories of the rise and fall of the whaling industry in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. At the turn of the nineteenth century, whale baleen and blubber were extremely valuable commodities, and so sailors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312220815Author Francis SpuffordFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm)...