Polar Regions category: 485 books
Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal
Or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; Or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51
This edition features • illustrations • linked Footnotes PREFACE I fear with the many of my cloth, my crime in writing a book...
Antarctica and the Arctic Circle: A Geographic Encyclopedia of the Earth's Polar Regions [2 volumes]
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Antarctica and the Arctic Circle: A Geographic Encyclopedia of the Earth's Polar Regions [2 volumes]
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Global warming, a hot topic among scholars of geography and science, has led to increased interest in studying the earth's polar ice caps, which seem to be melting at an alarming rate. This accessible, two-volume encyclopedia lays a foundation for understanding global warming and other issues related...
Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions
The Narrative of a Polar Explorer
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
In an age when polar exploration was akin to space exploration today, Sir John Franklin's journeys of discovery captured the popular imagination. Originally published in 1859, Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions is Franklin's own record of his two overland expeditions, begun in 1816 and 1825, which...
by Nick Rennison
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
An absorbing history, bringing explorers' tales vividly to life Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the men who went to Antarctica with Captain Scott, said "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been devised." Yet there has never...
Amazing Arctic and Antarctic Projects
You Can Build Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Amazing Arctic & Antarctic Projects You Can Build Yourself explores the Earth's polar regions with 25 interactive projects, activities, and experiments. Kids ages 9 and up will discover that the coldest places on Earth hold fascinating scientific wonders and mysteries. Historical facts and anecdotes,...
Future Arctic
Field Notes from a World on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
In one hundred years, or even fifty, the Arctic will look dramatically differthan it does today. As polar ice retreats and animals and plants migrate northward, the arctic landscape is morphing into something new and very differfrom what it once was. While these changes may seem remote, they will...
by Gordon Gray
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
On a blustery, West Highland summer’s day in the early 1950s, a black-hulled mail steamer ploughed its way northwards from Mallaig up through the Sound of Sleat between the mainland of Scotland and the Isle of Skye. The spray from its bow wave flew high up her sides and dark smoke was tugged from...
by Roald Amundsen
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
My Life as an Explorer is a classis of Polar literature, written by the one man to do more to further the exploration of both Polar Regions than any other person. First sailing to the Antarctic in the 1899 Belgian expedition, Amundsen never lost his passion for exploring, following this trip with...
Ships of Wood and Men of Iron
A Norwegian-Canadian Saga of Exploration in the High Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2005
In the barren lands of Canada far north of the Arctic circle, summers are quick and cool, mere short interruptions in the true business of the polar regions, winter. Winters there can be dangerous with temperatures that plunge to awesome depths during the long, lonely hours of Arctic darkness. Powerful...
by Richard Sale
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
This book celebrates the Arctic, exploring the natural history that has so inspired generations. Early travellers to the Arctic brought back tales of amazing creatures and of the endurance required of visitors, the Arctic becoming a land of inspiration and imagination. Adventurers test themselves...
Shores of the Polar Sea
"A Narrative of Arctic Expedition"
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
HE ARCTIC EXPEDITION of 1875 left England on 29th May, crossed the Atlantic to Davis Straits in a succession of storms, and entered the Arctic regions on 4th July. It sailed with orders to “attain the highest northern latitude, and, if possible, reach the Pole.”
In old times, when voyages...
Polar Bears and the Arctic
A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #12: Polar Bears Past Bedtime
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Getting the facts behind the fiction has never looked better. Track the facts with Jack and Annie!!
When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House...
Scott's Forgotten Surgeon
Dr. Reginald Koettlitz, Polar Explorer
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
As senior surgeon on board Discovery, Dr. Reginald Koettlitz played a vital role in the heroic period of polar exploration when Nansen, Amundsen, Shackleton and Scott dominated the headlines. He was awarded a medal by the Royal Geographical Society for his role in the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04....
The Great Polar Fraud
Cook, Peary, and Byrd?How Three American Heroes Duped the World into Thinking They Had Reached the North Pole
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
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 Peary tried to convince the world of their claims....