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Penguin Diplomacy: Brian Roberts, polar explorer, treaty maker and conservationist by June Roberts
RRP: €25.59€16.76Apologies 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 -
Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation by Andrew D. Lambert
RRP: €17.84€8.47In 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin led a large, well equipped expedition to complete the conquest of the Canadian Arctic, to find the fabled North West Passage connecting the North Atlantic to the North Pacific. Yet Franklin, his ships and his men were... -
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Anniversary Edition) by Alfred Lansing
RRP: €15.46€13.98In 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 January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a... -
Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search by Russell A. Potter
RRP: €35.69€27.94In 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... -
The Magnetism of Antarctica: The Ross Expedition 1839-1843 by John Knight
RRP: €22.60€18.62This 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... -
White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen's Fearless Journey into the Heart of the Arctic by Stephen Bown
RRP: €27.36€21.86Among 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... -
Life Lessons from Explorers: How to scale life's summits and think like an explorer by Felicity Aston
RRP: €15.46€9.73Great 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... -
True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole by Bruce Henderson 9780393327380
€13.67In 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... -
Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean by Joy McCann
€29.18"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... -
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic by Valerian Albanov
RRP: €16.65€12.98Apologies 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... -
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie 9781771641739
RRP: €22.55€15.22Apologies 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... -
The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard 9781619491878
RRP: €15.46€15.09Apologies 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 *... -
The White Darkness by David Grann 9780385544573
RRP: €29.75€18.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385544573Author David GrannFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 187mm *... -
The Race to the White Continent: Voyages to the Antarctic by Alan Gurney 9780393323214
RRP: €23.80€21.15In the 1830s, the forbidding Antarctic region represented the ultimate mystery. The prospect of discovering a lucrative whaling ground made this uncharted and untapped region especially enticing. Three expeditions to the pole were launched simultaneously... -
Minds of Winter by Ed O'Loughlin
RRP: €11.89€7.71Longlisted 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 . . ... -
An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science by Edward J. Larson
€23.03From 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... -
Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition by Scott Cookman 9780471404200
RRP: €17.84€16.29Apologies 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)... -
Antarctica: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by David Day 9780190641320
RRP: €57.11€41.32Part 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... -
Journals in Greenland by Hans Egede
RRP: €22.61€18.64Hans 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... -
A Frenchman in Search of Franklin: De Bray's Arctic Journal, 1852-54 by William Barr
RRP: €38.08€36.27In 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... -
The Last Voyage of the Karluk: A Survivor's Memoir of Arctic Disaster by William Laird McKinlay 9780312206550
RRP: €21.41€14.28Apologies 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 -
Antarctica: A Biography by David Day 9780199861453
RRP: €45.21€33.03Apologies 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 Those Days: Inuit and Explorers by Kenn Harper
RRP: €17.84€11.76In 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... -
Farthest North: The Greatest Arctic Adventure Story by Fridtjof Nansen 9781783342457
RRP: €20.22€16.78Apologies 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 -
Fram: To the Ends of the Earth by Christopher Routledge 9780956887801
RRP: €13.08€10.27Apologies 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 -
I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination by Francis Spufford 9780312220815
RRP: €33.31€21.60Apologies 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)... -
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
RRP: €23.80€15.28Apologies 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 *... -
Hoosh: Roast Penguin, Scurvy Day, and Other Stories of Antarctic Cuisine by Jason C. Anthony 9780803226661
RRP: €27.36€20.60Antarctica, 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,... -
To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration by Edward J. Larson 9780062564481
RRP: €15.46€13.11Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a "suspenseful" (WSJ) and "adrenaline-fueled" (Outside) entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time, when three expeditions simultaneously raced to the... -
In Those Days: Tales of Arctic Whaling by Kenn Harper
RRP: €16.65€11.02In 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... -
The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard 9780143039389
RRP: €22.61€15.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143039389Author Apsley Cherry-GarrardFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 196mm... -
Antarctica: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by David Day 9780190641313
RRP: €13.08€12.01Part 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... -
In Those Days: Arctic Crime and Punishment by Kenn Harper
RRP: €16.65€11.02In this second volume of In Those Days: Collected Writings on Arctic History, Kenn Harper shares the tales of murderers, thieves, and fraudsters--as well as the wrongfully accused--in the early days of Northern colonization. In the nineteenth and... -
My Attainment of the Pole by Frederick A. Cook 9780815411376
RRP: €29.75€22.79The subzero temperatures were only one of the dangers explorer Frederick Cook (1865-1940) faced in his attempts to reach the North Pole. During his extraordinary and harrowing journey, he fought off arctic wolves and polar bears, lived through ice... -
Rescue Below Zero by Ian Mackersey 9781800556034
RRP: €11.89€10.42Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Eskimo Life: Translated By William Archer by Fridtjof Nansen 9789390314393
RRP: €14.28€13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390314393Author Fridtjof NansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 272g -
Polar Exploration by James Tyrell 9781523609048
RRP: €11.89€10.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523609048Author James TyrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Sailor on Ice: Tom Crean: With Scott in the Antarctic 1910-1913 by David Hirzel 9781945312007
RRP: €23.80€20.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945312007Author David HirzelFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Terra Nova PressPublisher Terra Nova PressWeight(grams) 345g -
Of Maps and Men: The Mysterious Discovery of Antarctica by John G Weihaupt Phd 9781494375294
RRP: €11.84€10.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494375294Author John G Weihaupt PhdFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Arctic Security in a Warming World by U S Army War College 9781497460508
RRP: €9.46€8.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497460508Author U S Army War CollegeFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...