Polar Regions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611890129Author Richard KonkolskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Seven OceansPublisher Seven OceansWeight(grams) 399g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781530819409Author Matthew A HensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781530183722Author Ernest ShackletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498082822Author Hudson StuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 590g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490390833Author Donna MorangFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595214549Author Christopher PalaFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 522g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981671314Author David HilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Soft Seat Travel PublicationsPublisher Soft Seat Travel PublicationsWeight(grams) 231g

To people who haven’t been there, Antarctica seems remote, extreme and perhaps even forbidding. Yet everybody who has visited comes back full of enthusiasm, with amazing memories and stunning photos. The author inspires interest in this amazing place...

Spitsbergen is the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago which is situated between the Greenland and Barents Seas, approximately 600 miles from the North Pole. In the 16th century the islands were visited by Barents' expedition and in the ensuing...

Tuumarsi is a realistic depiction of the struggle for survival. A famine causes a family to pick up and relocate to fairer hunting grounds. The psyche and humor of the people is reflected through Nielsen's own experiences with them. The struggle among...

Writer and Antarctic explorer Neider tells of his third trip to the frozen continent, describing the international stations there and the goals they are working toward. Neider also tours the Antarctic landscape, observing the geography and wildlife and...

In October 1995, a conference of physicians, scientists, and polar explorers was convened at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, England. With one voice these experts spoke out about the need for improvement in the standards of safety and...

Ernest Shackleton sailed to the South Pole as the First World War broke out in Europe, intent on making the first ever trans-Antarctic crossing. South! is Shackleton's first-hand account of the epic expedition, which he described as 'the last great...

"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised," wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his time with the 1910 Scott expedition to the South Pole. And that's how most of us still imagine polar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927249055Author Rebecca PriestleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Awa PressPublisher Awa PressWeight(grams) 824gDimensions(mm) 220mm * 155mm * 33mm

Before Fridtjof Nansen's Greenland expedition of 1888, the vast impenetrable arctic regions exasperated nineteenth-century scientists. The twenty-six-year-old thought he knew better. Convinced that he would succeed by skiing, a sport practically unknown...

'A philosophical adventurer or perhaps an adventurous philosopher' New York Times'As an explorer Erling Kagge is world class; as a writer he is equally gifted’ Sir Ranulph FiennesThroughout recorded human time, few places on Earth have inspired as much...