Polar Regions category: 485 books
by Agnieszka Latocha
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
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 centuries were used primarily as a base for hunting...
Imagining the Arctic
Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to convince their contemporaries of the merits of polar voyages. Much of exploration was in fact theatre: a series...
Polar Mariner
Beyond the Limits in Antarctica
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Captain Woodfield made 20 seasonal voyages to the Antarctic on three research ships between 1955 and 1974. Starting as a Junior Deck Officer he worked for The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey which in 1964 became the British Antarctic Survey. He played a paramount role in the gradual change from...
by Louis Bernacchi
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Louis Bernacchi’s book Saga of the ‘Discovery’ is a comprehensive history of the fascinating ship which was built specifically for Antarctic exploration and which was used intermittently for such purposes until the early 1930s when she was given to the Boy Scouts Association. For nearly...
Two Years Below the Horn
Operation Tabarin, Field Science, and Antarctic Sovereignty, 1944-1946
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
In "Two Years Below the Horn," engineer Andrew Taylor vividly recounts his experiences and accomplishments during Operation Tabarin, a landmark British expedition to Antarctica to establish sovereignty and conduct science during the Second World War. When mental strain led the operation’s...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The diminishment of Arctic sea ice has led to increased human activities in the Arctic, and has heightened interest in, and concerns about, the region's future. The United States, by virtue of Alaska, is an Arctic country and has substantial interests in the region. On May 10, 2013, the Obama Administration...
Ice Ship
The Epic Voyages of the Polar Adventurer Fram
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
In the golden age of polar exploration (from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s), many an expedition set out to answer the big question—was the Arctic a continent, an open ocean beyond a barrier of ice, or an ocean covered with ice? No one knew, for the ice had kept its secret well; ships trying to...
by Helen Garner
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
They say that tourist ships to Antarctica, even more than ordinary human conveyances, are loaded down with aching hearts. Deceived wives and widowers, men who've never been loved and don't know why, Russian crew forced to leave their children behind for years at a time … And then there are the married...
In the Land of White Death
An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
**“One helluva read.”—Newsweek • “Gripping.”—Outside • “Spellbinding.”—Associated Press • “Powerful.”—*New York ***
In 1912, the Saint Anna, a Russian exploration vessel in search of fertile hunting grounds, was frozen into the polar ice cap, trapping her crew...
by Ed O'Loughlin
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017.
'Ed O'Loughlin is a skilled cartographer of both the Arctic and the human heart. What a magnificent novel' Ron Rash
'A brilliant paean to the obsessions of the polar explorers . . . stupendously good' Australian
'Vastly entertaining'...
The Last Viking
The Extraordinary Life of Roald Amundsen
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
One hundred years have passed since Robert Falcon Scott’s beleagured expeditionary team arrived at the South Pole, only to find that they had been beaten by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen.
The most feted explorer of his generation, Amundsen counted the discovery of the Northwest Passage,...
The Arctic Exploration Anthology
The Personal Accounts of the Great Arctic Explorers
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
The stories of the first explorers of the Arctic and the North Pole have always been somewhat overshadowed by the famous and tragic race for the South Pole a decade later. In truth the story is no less riveting to the reader, in terms of bravery, resilience and determination.
What is...
by Roald Amundsen
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This scarce book was first published in 1908. It is a fascinating account of the Norwegian polar explorer, Amundsen's, exploration of the Northwest Passage. Not only the first person to traverse the Passage, Amundsen was also the first to reach the North and South Poles. A fascinating autobiographical...
by Roald Amundsen
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.