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Big Thaw
Struzik, Ed

ISBN10: 9780470157664 ISBN13: 9780470157664
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Wiley
Format: Electronic Book
Winner of the Canadian Science Writers' Association's Science in Society Book AwardBanff Mountain Book Award FinalistThe City of Edmonton Book Prize FinalistShortlisted for the Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-FictionClimate change's effects are... More

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Arctic Labyrinth
Williams, Glyn

ISBN10: 9780141932583 ISBN13: 9780141932583
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
Format: Electronic Book
For centuries British navigators dreamt of finding the Northwest Passage - the route over the top of North America that would open up the fabulous wealth of Asia to British merchants. We know now that, while several such passages exist... More

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Big Thaw
Struzik, Ed

ISBN10: 9780470737071 ISBN13: 9780470737071
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Wiley
Format: Electronic Book
"e;Traveling in time and space across the Arctic, in The big Thaw Ed Struzik describes at first hand the most alarming environmental crisis of our times,. It's a land that Struzik is passionate about, and he writes of its frozen beauty with an... More

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Ice Museum
Kavenna, Joanna

ISBN10: 9780141041117 ISBN13: 9780141041117
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin
Format: Electronic Book
Joanna Kavenna went north in search of the Atlantis of the Arctic, the mythical land of Thule. Seen once by an Ancient Greek explorer and never found again, mysterious Thule came to represent the vast and empty spaces of the north. Fascinated for... More

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Antarctica
Simpson-Housley, Paul

ISBN10: 9780203036020 ISBN13: 9780203036020
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
A scene so wildly and awfully desolate...it cannot fail to impress me with gloomy thoughts"e; - so Scott perceived the stark Antarctic landscape in 1905. Antarctica traces images of the continent from early invented maps of Terra Australis... More

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Race to the Pole
Fogle, Ben; Cracknell, James

ISBN10: 9780230741980 ISBN13: 9780230741980
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Macmillan
Format: Electronic Book
For the first time since Scott's ill-fated race to Antarctica against Amundsen in 1913, a handful of teams from around the world have been granted permission to race each other, on foot, across Antarctica -- starting on New Year's Day and dragging... More

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ISBN: 9780762442751 - Mammoth Book of Antarctic Journeys

Mammoth Book of Antarctic Journeys
Lewis, Jon E

ISBN10: 9781780331348 ISBN13: 9781780331348
Publisher: Constable & Robinson Robinson
Format: Electronic Book
The very best writing on the Antarctic, from James Cook's eighteenth-century assertion that 'no man will ever venture further than I have done' to Lynne Cox's description of her epic, icy swim in the twenty-first century - 32 first... More

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Little America
Paul, Erik

ISBN10: 9781849643252 ISBN13: 9781849643252
Publisher: Pluto Press
Format: Electronic Book
What role does the US play in shaping Australian politics? Australia is one of the US's most staunch supporters: Australia has sent troops to Iraq, and is an ally in the 'war on terror'. Australian domestic policy also follows the US economic... More

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ISBN: 9781578603282 - North Pole Tenderfoot

North Pole Tenderfoot
Hall, Doug

ISBN10: 9781578604074 ISBN13: 9781578604074
Publisher: Clerisy Press
Format: Electronic Book
Why would Doug Hall follow in Robert Peary's 1909 sled tracks to the North Pole, despite the grueling terrain and temperatures between 15 and 62 degrees below zero? His goal was to resurrect the spirit of Peary's journey in a world increasingly... More

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Mawson
FitzSimons, Peter

ISBN10: 9781742754581 ISBN13: 9781742754581
Publisher: Random House Australia RHA eBooks Adult
Format: Electronic Book
Sir Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, remains Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, his Australasian Antarctic Expedition left Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below Australia, 2000 miles of... More

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