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Series
Maximum Ride volume 4
Language
English
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While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 12
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
109 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie continue to try helping Merlin the magician by searching for the secrets of happiness, and their magic tree house takes them to Antarctica, a wasteland where the penguins may know what to do.
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Language
English
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Bernadette is a frightfully intelligent wife and mother whose intense allergy to Seattle specifically, and to people in general, has driven her to hire a virtual assistant in India to execute even her most basic tasks. Then her daughter, Bee, insists on a family trip to Antarctica as her reward for getting perfect grades in middle school, and Bernadette is faced with the daunting prospect of actual human interaction. And then Bernadette disappears....
5) Antarctica
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Language
English
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Eco-terrorists battle capitalists, seeking to open Antarctica to commercial exploitation. The time is the 21st century, the world is an ecological disaster, and the treaty banning mineral exploration of Antarctica has expired. By the author of Red Mars.
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Language
English
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Drawing upon previously unavailable sources, Caroline Alexander gives us a riveting account of Shackleton's expedition one of history's greatest epics of survival. And she presents the astonishing work of Frank Hurley, the Australian photographer whose visual record of the adventure was never before published comprehensively. Together, text and image re-create the terrible beauty of Antarctica, the awful destruction of the ship, and the crew's heroic...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England in August 1914. In January 1915, after battling its way for six weeks through a thousand miles of pack ice and now only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed. But...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"In 1910, Captain Robert Scott prepared his crew for a trip that no one had ever completed: a journey to the South Pole. He vowed to get there any way he could, even if it meant looking death in the eye. Then, not long before he set out, the telegram arrived: "Proceeding to Antarctic - Roald Amundsen." What was to be an expedition had become a race. One hundred and eight years later, Captain Louis Rudd readied himself for a similarly grueling task:...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks eXplore
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Turtles are found on every continent EXCEPT Antarctica. But not for long! When a David Attenborough-esque narrator explains that turtles are found everywhere except Antarctica, one determined turtle sets out to prove him wrong. After recruiting other non-Antarctic animals along the way-much to the narrator's dismay-the turtle and his adventurous friends travel through fields, forests, and cross an entire ocean to reach their goal. But what exactly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
104 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Learn about the continent at the southern part of the Earth that is covered with ice and is very cold and where no people live except scientists who stay for months at a time to work.
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Modern Library pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Terra Incognita is a meditation on the landscape, myths and history of one of the remotest parts of the globe, as well as an encounter with the people who inhabit this region - living in close confinement despite the surrounding acres of white space - and the mechanics of day-to-day life in extraordinary conditions. Through Sara Wheeler, the Antarctic is revealed, in all its seductive mystery.
13) Antarctica
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
[34] p. : coll ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Far far south, in Antarctica, penguins and seals raise their young. One year, loud, unfamiliar sounds announced the arrival of a new presence. The creatures hope this presence can share their world in peace.
Author
Series
Publisher
TOON Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Fountas & Pinnell
I
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 16 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A boy and a mouse take a bumpy sea journey to the majestic expanses of the Antarctic, where they see the sights and meet new friends.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Devastated when her dream of becoming a professional ballerina falls through, seventeen-year-old Harper Scott takes a job as a research assistant, wintering over at McMurdo, a U.S. science station at the tip of Antarctica where, for the first time, she considers other possible futures.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 101 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
During her exploratory sojourns to Antarctica, Lucy Jane Bledsoe witnessed many amazing sights, such as mummified seals, and picked up more than a few survival tactics; for example, if you should find yourself in danger of falling into a cravasse, you should stretch out your body to avoid dropping farther. Part memoir, part survival tips, part curiosities, Lucy Jane Bledsoe's book lets readers vicariously experience the author's adventures while on...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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" Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority? How many alcoholic drinks do you consume a week? Would you rather be a florist or a truck driver? These are the questions that decide who has what it takes to live at South Pole Station, a place with an average temperature of -54°F and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling is adrift at thirty, unmoored by a family tragedy and floundering in her career...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist, Antarctica.
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