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Antarctica
Intrepid travellers are being drawn to the wonders of the Seventh Continent- its other-worldly landscape and its variety of penguins, whales, seals and birds. Though independent travel is all but impossible for all but a few, this unique guide will help you choose a tour that fulfils your interest while promoting a safe and environmentally responsible visit to the loneliest of lands....$30.99
Dafila Scott's sensitive illustrations combine with Tony Soper's lively text to create a unique guide and a book that will give lasting pleasure- both for the dedicated naturalist and for the expedition member in search of a deeper understanding of the continent......$28.95
Voyages to Antarctica......$22.50
Shakleton's incredible voyage.......$16.00
No one goes to Antactica alone, and Life on The Ice is not just a stunning panorama of this frozen wilderness but an extraordinary group portrait of the people who live there and of an Antarctic cameraderie that transcends nationality and politics...........$23.00
The harrowing saga of Shackelton's Ross Sea party.......$18.50
42 Eyewitness accounts of adventure and tragedy in the Arctic and Antarctica - Shackleton, Scott, Amundsen, Mawson, Nansen, Fiennes, and many more........$18.50
This book tells the breathtaking story of Douglas Mawson's Antarctic expeditions, in which he more than once narrowly escaped with his life...........$20.00
The amazing adventure of Sir Charles Wright on Robert Scott's journey to the South Pole............$26.95
Roald Amundsen, his polar explorations, and the quest for discovery.......$30.00
"It is the last great journey left to man," Ernest Shackleton said in 1914, before setting off for Antarctica on a voyage from which he would return only two years later, having lost his ship and three members of his expedition. Eighty years later, Sara Wheeler embarked on that same journey; this is much more that a record of that experience. Accounts of epic expeditions alternate with Sara Wheeler's own adventures in Antarctica, where a motley crew of scientists, drifters and dreamers search for bacterial traces that might hold the key to life on Mars, harass penguins and seek to measure this still largely impenetrable land...$17.00
"The Worst Journey in the World is to travel writing what War and Peace is to the novel...a masterpiece."- New York Review of Books....$21.00
Arctic
A tale of a near-fatal voyage along the NW coast of Alaska in an attempt of a solo journey of the NW Passage.....$19.95
National Book Award Winner Barry Lopez enters into the 'Great White North' and is awed and inspired by it.....$23.00
The quest for the Northwest Passage...........$32.00
Travels in the Melting North...........$21.95
A guide to the coastal wildlife......$27.50
Including the Dempster Highway........$29.95
Encounters in a changing landscape...........$35.00
In 2003, Benedict Allen took a team of hardened "ice-dogs" into the remotest corner of Siberia. Unknown to him, the Russian Arctic was about to face its worst winter in living memory...........$18.00
To have Billy Connolly as a personal tour guide through some of the world's most dramatic landscapes - from the Atlantic to the Pacific via the fabled Northwest Passage - is to enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime experience.......$16.99
42 Eyewitness accounts of adventure and tragedy in the Arctic and Antarctica - Shackleton, Scott, Amundsen, Mawson, Nansen, Fiennes, and many more........$18.50
Roald Amundsen, his polar explorations, and the quest for discovery.......$30.00
A woman's journey to the Canadian Arctic..........$28.95
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