Polar Regions

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 9780143039389Author Apsley Cherry-GarrardFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 196mm...

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 9780618219216Author David G CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 386g

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 9788798342441Author Susanne DybbroeFormat PaperbackPage Count 71Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press

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.Book InformationISBN 9781861519634Author June RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992258849Author Joan DruettFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Old Salt PressPublisher Old Salt PressWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

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...

As the ice around the Arctic landmass recedes, the territory is becoming a flashpoint in world affairs. New trade routes, cutting thousands of miles off journeys, are available, and the Arctic is thought to be home to enormous gas and oil reserves. 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 the second half of the eighteenth century, the Russian Empire-already the largest on earth-expanded its dominion onto the ocean. Through a series of government-sponsored voyages of discovery and the establishment of a private fur trade, Russians...

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

The Arctic is opening. Global warming is leading to seasonal sea-ice retreat, which in turn opens hitherto impassable shipping routes and new areas for resource exploitation. Such changes are elevating the Arctic's geostrategic value and stoking...

In 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781889963297Author Alden ToddFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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.Book InformationISBN 9780998046525Author Ronnie SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Plenus Gratia PublicationsPublisher Plenus Gratia PublicationsWeight(grams) 172g

Before Sir Ernest Shackleton's exploration of the Antarctic waters in 1914, Captain Roald Amundsen led a courageous team through ice-chocked waters to become the first expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911. Read the fascinating account of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898752878Author Captain Roald AmundsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint International Law and Taxation PublishersPublisher International Law and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369325044Author Louis BernacchiFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 689g

The eighteenth century-the Age of Reason-was characterized by determined attempts by philosophers, scientists, and political theorists to dispel myth, superstition, and ignorance. But the Age of Reason also witnessed some of the most irrational and...

In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Russian Empire-already the largest on earth-expanded its dominion onto the ocean. Through a series of government-sponsored voyages of discovery and the establishment of a private fur trade, Russians...

Long at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map of the world, the Arctic has found its way to the centre of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century: energy security and the struggle for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945312021Author David HirzelFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Terra Nova PressPublisher Terra Nova PressWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589633858Author Mikhail VodopyanovFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Fredonia Books (NL)Publisher Fredonia Books (NL)Weight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619021921Author Chris TurneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781457551109Author Alex HillsFormat PaperbackImprint Dog Ear PublishingPublisher Dog Ear PublishingWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410203359Author A W GreelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams) 472g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773852768Author Daniel HeidtFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint University of Calgary PressPublisher University of Calgary PressWeight(grams) 152g

The Joint Arctic Weather Stations were five meteorological and scientific monitoring stations constructed at Resolute, Eureka, Mould Bay, Isachsen, and Alert with the cooperation of the Canadian Department of Transport's meteorological branch and the...

Emil Bessels was chief scientist and medical officer on George Francis Hall's ill-fated American North Pole Expedition of 1871-73, on board the ship Polaris. Bessels' book, translated from the German in its entirety for the first time, is one of only two...

Long recognized by naturalists and adventurers as a dramatically unique region, the Arctic has recently emerged as an area of increasing political, strategic, and economic importance. The Arctic is both one of the world's largest and smallest regions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788798342427Author Elizabeth VestergaardFormat PaperbackPage Count 217Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997692501Author Tom EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Tom EdwardsPublisher Tom EdwardsWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 108mm * 8mm

Robert Falcon Scott's 1901-4 expedition to the Antarctic was a landmark event in the history of Antarctic exploration, creating a sensation comparable to the Arctic efforts of the American Robert E. Peary. Scott's initial expedition was also the first...