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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
399 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
National Book Award-winner Andrea Barrett deftly blends fact and fiction to create this magnificent epic of Victorian polar exploration. An amazing wealth of period detail, heart-racing action, and engaging characters enable you to fully experience the 19th-century's romance with the mystery of the Arctic. In hope of making his reputation, scholar-naturalist Erasmus Darwin Wells embarks on a perilous expedition to the North Pole. Through his eyes,...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 431 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of Ada Blackjack, an unskilled 23-year-old Inuit woman who accompanied explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson into the far North to colonize uninhabited Wrangel Island in 1921.
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 6
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Baffin Island: Sam and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved--and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico. How can that be? As they investigate, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary Toltec feathered-serpent god Quetzalcoatl--and a fabled object known as the Eye of Heaven--begin to emerge. But so do...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
©2000
Edition
1st edition
Physical Desc
xiv, 402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the 1913-14 Arctic scientific expedition on the H.M.C.S "Karluk" that ended when its twenty-two men, an Inuit woman and her two very young daughters, twenty-nine dogs, and a pet cat were shipwrecked in the Arctic Ocean, and describes their attempts to survive until twelve of them were rescued nine months later.
6) Fatal north: adventure and survival aboard USS Polaris, the first U.S. expedition to the North Pole
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
viii, 306 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
It began as America's first attempt to reach the North Pole. It ended with the captain's suspicious death, a brutal struggle for survival on the polar ice, and a government cover-up. With eight pages of rare photographs and illustrations, Fatal North is a harrowing account of one of the great tragedies in the history of United States exploration.
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
1st US edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Haunted by the loss of her parents and twin sister at sea, Henna cloisters herself in a Northeastern village where the snow never stops. When she discovers the body of a young woman at the edge of the forest, she's plunged into the mystery of a centuries-old letter regarding one of the most famous stories of Arctic exploration--the Franklin expedition, which disappeared into the ice in 1845. At the center of the mystery is Franklin's wife, the indomitable...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xiv, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Michael Palin brings the fascinating story of the Erebus and its occupants to life, from its construction as a bomb vessel in 1826 through the flagship years of James Clark Ross's Antarctic expedition and finally to Sir John Franklin's quest for the holy grail of navigation--a route through the Northwest Passage, where the ship disappeared into the depths of the sea for more than 150 years. It was rediscovered under the arctic waters in 2014"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world's greatest living ice navigator. The expedition's visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame. Just six weeks after the Karluk departed,...
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