Polar Regions category: 485 books
Settling Into a Polar Winter (storey 29 of 40)
Coppermine, N.W.T. Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Our school continues to grade eight. Grade eight and grade seven share the same classroom. If we were still living in Fort Good Hope N.W.T. I would have to go to residential school in Inuvik for grade seven. I now live in Coppermine, which is located on the shores of the Arctic Ocean in the North...
Disaster at the Pole
The Tragedy of the Airship Italia and the 1928 Nobile Expedition to the North Pole
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
The true story of the harrowing wreck of the airship Italia during a polar expedition and the heroic rescue attempts to save her and her crew. This is an intriguing and heart-stopping account of the tragic aviation disaster of Commander Umberto Nobile, an Italian aeronautic engineer and airship designer,...
South with the Sun
Roald Amundsen, His Polar Explorations, and the Quest for Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Roald Amundsen, “the last of the Vikings,” left his mark on the Heroic Era as one of the most successful polar explorers ever.
A powerfully built man more than six feet tall, Amundsen’s career of adventure began at the age of fifteen (he was born in Norway in 1872 to a family of merchant...
Deep Freeze
The United States, the International Geophysical Year, and the Origins of Antarctica's Age of Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In Deep Freeze, Dian Olson Belanger tells the story of the pioneers who built viable communities, made vital scientific discoveries, and established Antarctica as a continent dedicated to peace and the pursuit of science, decades after the first explorers planted flags in the ice.
In the tense...
by Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
The plans of my second expedition took gradual shape during the years 1906-1907, while I was still north of the Arctic circle engaged in the work of my first expedition. It was once intended that I should be the ethnologist of the Leffingwell-Mikkelsen Arctic Expedition, sometimes known as the Anglo-American...
by Jeanette Winter
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Experience Arctic chills and warm hugs in this nonfiction picture book about a loving polar bear family from acclaimed author-illustrator Jeanette Winter.
At the top of the world, Nanuk the ice bear hunts for food, meets a mate, and hibernates through the winter with her newborn cubs. When...
by Caryn Jenner
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Explore arctic environments, polar landscapes, animals, and people in and around the North and South Poles.
Featuring polar bears, icebergs, reindeer, penguins, sea life, and more, Frozen Worlds allows young readers to travel to Earth's coldest places.
Perfect for 3-5 year olds learning...
by Thyra Heder
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Sophie does not want to do her homework, a research report on polar bears. Bor-ing. They’re big. They eat things. They’re mean. What else is there to say about them anyway? As it turns out, plenty. And when a polar bear named Olafur swoops her away to the Arctic, she soon learns all about the...
by James Castrission
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
On 31 October 2011 James Castrission and Justin Jones set out to achieve 'one of the last great polar adventures' - an unsupported return journey from the edge of the Antarctic continent to the South Pole. This is a quest that has been attempted by many experienced polar explorers before them...and...
Shipwreck at Cape Flora
The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Mentioned in BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24281727 Benjamin Leigh Smith discovered and named dozens of islands in the Arctic but published no account of his pioneering explorations. He refused public accolades and sent stand-ins to deliver the results of his work to scientific societies....
Nanarluk, Super Bear (storey 35 of 40)
Coppermine, N.W.T. Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Pierre Elliott Trudea is the Prime Minister of Canada. He will be doing a tour of the Arctic. The buzz around here is that he may be coming to Coppermine N.W.T., for a visit. Nothing has been confirmed, everyone is in a tizzy, we must do something special for the Prime Minister of Canada. What do...
by Fridtjof Nansen
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Nansen's "Fram" expedition was an attempt by the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen to reach the geographical North Pole by harnessing the natural east–west current of the Arctic Ocean. In the face of much discouragement from other polar explorers, in 1893, Nansen took his ship "Fram"...
The Antarctic Book of Cooking and Cleaning
A Polar Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
A visually captivating, novelistic travelogue that chronicles the first civilian environmental cleanup expedition in Antarctica—an engaging true story told through anecdotes, journal entries, vignettes, recipes, and archival and contemporary photography.
“The first thing that comes to mind...
Ice Blink
Navigating Northern Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Northern Canada's distinctive landscapes, its complex social relations and the contested place of the North in contemporary political, military, scientific and economic affairs have fueled recent scholarly discussion. At the same time, both the media and the wider public have shown increasing interest...