History - Arctic & Antarctica

The South Pole discovered trumpeted the front page of The Daily Chronicle on March 8, 1912, marking Roald Amundsens triumph over the tragic Robert ...

1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica

Complete with a new, shocking Epilogue, this reissue of a cult classic explores Noone's prediction of impending doom--scheduled to occur on May 5, ...

In the spring of 2001, an industrial fishing trawler went down in the icy waters just below the Arctic Circle, with its position last recorded at 5...

The tragic and mesmerizing story of the deadliest American fishing accident in 50 years, the 2001 sinking of the Arctic Rose. In the spring of 2001...

Based on five decades of research and observation, a haunting and unsparing look at the melting ice caps, and what their disappearance will mean. P...

On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier finally found what they sought -- the snow-covered tent of the B...

A vivid account of one of the century's great misadventures--Robert Falcon Scott's doomed British expedition to Antarctica of 1910. 3 maps. Two 8-p...

When he was drafted for duty in the United States Army during World War I, Godfrey Anderson had no idea he was about to embark on a horrific advent...

This powerful book blends the rhythms of daily arctic life with high adventure.

Early humans did not simply drift northward from their African origins as their abilities to cope with cooler climates evolved. The initial settlem...

This classic, inexpensive, brief text is perfect for colleges organized on the quarter system or for professors who want to assign supplemental rea...

A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier

Comprises a translation and condensation of Knud Rasmussen's engaging two-volume account, published in 1927, of the 20,000-mile dog-sled journey he...

Across the Arctic Ocean: Original Photographs from the Last Great Polar Journey

The centuries-long quest for the fabled Northwest Passage rivals the story of Antarctic exploration for heroism, drama, and tragedy. Expedition aft...

In the sixteenth century, European explorers began the search for a water route -- a Northwest Passage -- from the Atlantic to the Pacific. From th...

It was controversial explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson who sent four young men and Ada Blackjack into the far North to colonize desolate, uninhabited ...

It was controversial explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson who sent four young men and Ada Blackjack into the far North to colonize desolate, uninhabited ...

Now a major Netflix film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) The harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal acco...