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  • Last Explorer

    Hubert Wilkins, Hero of the Golden Age of Polar Exploration

    by Simon Nasht ...
    In the tradition of The Ice Master and Endurance, here is the incredible story of the first truly modern explorer, whose death-defying adventures and uncommon modesty make this book itself an extraordinary discovery. Hubert Wilkins was the most successful explorer in history-no one saw with his own eyes more undiscovered land and sea. Largely self-taught, Wilkins became a celebrated newsreel ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD $1.99 CAD

  • An Empire of Ice

    Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science

    by Edward J. Larson ...
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning author examines South Pole expeditions, “wrapping the science in plenty of dangerous drama to keep readers engaged” (Booklist).An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration—placing the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others in a larger scientific, social, and ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Antarctic Exploration Anthology

    The Personal Accounts of the Great Antarctic Explorers

    by Ernest Shackleton, Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen ...
    Series series Texts of Discovery
    The frozen continent of Antarctica has always captured the imagination of explorers and adventurers from around the World, most especially in the first few decades of the 20th Century, when the race was on to be the very first person to reach the South Pole.In this carefully selected Anthology we present the personal accounts of the greatest early explorers of Antarctica: Captain Robert Falcon ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Endurance

    Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

    by Alfred Lansing ...
    Experience “one of the best adventure books ever written” (Wall Street Journal) in this New York Times bestseller: the harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole.In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Minds of Winter

    by Ed O'Loughlin ...
    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' Sunday TimesFROM BOOKER-LONGLISTED ED O'LOUGHLIN*:* THE PERFECT NOVEL FOR FANS OF AMY SACKVILLE'S ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • True North

    Travels in Arctic Europe

    by Gavin Francis ...
    A journey through the far north from the Shetland Islands to Greenland and beyond: “A wonder-voyage . . . often beautiful” (Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland).The stark, vast beauty of the remote landscape of Arctic Europe has been the focus of human exploration for thousands of years. In this striking blend of travel writing, history, and mythology, Gavin Francis offers a unique portrait of ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life Among the Qallunaat

    by Mini Aodla Freeman ...
    Series Book 3 - First Voices, First Texts
    Life Among the Qallunaat is the story of Mini Aodla Freeman’s experiences growing up in the Inuit communities of James Bay and her journey in the 1950s from her home to the strange land and stranger customs of the Qallunaat, those living south of the Arctic. Her extraordinary story, sometimes humourous and sometimes heartbreaking, illustrates an Inuit woman’s movement between worlds and ways of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Wanderlust

    An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age

    by Reid Mitenbuler ...
    The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II."An absolute joy...Wanderlust is a compelling introduction to one of the most charismatic explorers to ever cross the ice."—New York Times Book ReviewDeep in the Arctic ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Bath Time (storey 27 of 40)

    Coppermine, N.W.T. Canada

    by Dawn Kostelnik ...
    Series Book 27 - The White Girl
    Black round rock faces escape from months of imprisonment below the ice and snow. Heat radiates back from the smooth rock “mountain” that provides the backdrop for the tiny village of Coppermine which is located on the shores of the Arctic Ocean. Small hands escape from mittens and crowd together on the warm dry surface of the rock, giggles escape from childish lips. Into winter weary palms the ... Read more

    $1.00 CAD

  • Mawson's Will

    The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written

    by Lennard Bickel ...
    Read the “grim and inspiring” Arctic survival story of the legendary explorer who completed one of the most harrowing journeys in Antarctica’s history (Wall Street Journal).For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced some of the most daunting conditions ever known to man: blistering wind, snow, and cold; the loss of his companion, dogs, supplies, and even the skin on his hands and feet. But ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Life of Permafrost

    A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science

    by Pey-Yi Chu ...
    In the Anthropocene, the thawing of frozen earth due to global warming has drawn worldwide attention to permafrost. Contemporary scientists define permafrost as ground that maintains a negative temperature for at least two years. But where did this particular conception of permafrost originate, and what alternatives existed?The Life of Permafrost provides an intellectual history of permafrost, ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD

  • Erebus

    One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time

    by Michael Palin ...
    Intrepid voyager, writer and comedian Michael Palin follows the trail of two expeditions made by the Royal Navy's HMS Erebus to opposite ends of the globe, reliving the voyages and investigating the ship itself, lost on the final Franklin expedition and discovered with the help of Inuit knowledge in 2014.The story of a ship begins after the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, when Great Britain had ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD $9.99 CAD

  • Hitler's Arctic War

    The German Campaigns in Norway, Finland and the USSR 1940–1945

    by Chris Mann, Christer Jörgensen ...
    A groundbreaking study of how war was waged in the far north of Finland, Norway, and the Soviet Union: “Well-illustrated and organized.” —WWII HistoryAccording to Lieutenant-General Waldemar Erfurth of the German Army, the General Staff had taken no interest in the military history of the north and east of Europe, failing to imagine that someday German divisions might have to fight through the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Woman, Captain, Rebel

    The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain

    by Margaret Willson ...
    A daring and magnificent historical narrative nonfiction account of Iceland's most famous female sea captain who constantly fought for women's rights and equality—and who also solved one of the country's most notorious robberies.Every day was a fight for survival, equality, and justice for Iceland's most renowned female fishing captain of the 19th century.History would have us believe the sea has ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • VIKINGS (LES) -BE

    idées reçues sur les Vikings

    by Régis Boyer ...
    « Les Vikings étaient de redoutables barbares », « On ne sait rien d’eux », « Ils naviguaient sur des drakkars », « C’étaient de féroces païens », « Ils sont partis d’Islande pour découvrir l’Amérique », « Ils ont sillonné toutes les mers », « Ils sont apparus et ont disparu comme par enchantement »… Régis Boyer dévoile dans cet ouvrage la richesse d’une civilisation méconnue, souvent réduite ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Scandinavia: A History

    by Ewan Butler ...
    Here is the dramatic story of Scandinavia - from its earliest Germanic origins and Viking sea raids to its battles for independence and its involvement in World War II. Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, writes award-winning historian Ewan Butler writes, struggled through unions and separations, with both outsiders and each other, developing their own personalities and languages yet retaining ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Endurance: Shackleton's Extraordinary Voyage

    by Daniel Bryce ...
    After years of preparation, the world's most experienced Antarctic explorer embarked on the most dramatic adventure of his life. Sir Ernest Shackleton had carefully picked crew and a stout, well-outfitted ship, the Endurance. But he had no radio, the world was at war, and at the edge of the Antarctic continent, the ship froze in the sea ice. After months of immobility, it was crushed. Then began ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Madhouse at the End of the Earth

    The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

    by Julian Sancton ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing” (The New York Times) true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry—with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter“The energy of the narrative never flags. . . . Sancton has produced a thriller.”—The Wall Street JournalIn August 1897, the young ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Farthest North

    The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer

    by Fridtjof Nansen ...
    "If Outside magazine had been around during the first turn of the century, Fridtjof Nansen would have been its No. 1 cover boy."-The Chicago Sun-Times In September of 1893, Norwegian zoologist Fridtjof Nansen and crew manned the schooner Fram, intending to drift, frozen in the Arctic pack-ice, to the North Pole. When it became clear that they would miss the pole, Nansen and companion Hjalmar ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • South: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the Pole

    by Hunter Stewart ...
    The race to reach the South Pole for the first time was an unparalleled adventure in the early twentieth century. South, by historian Hunter Stewart, chronicles the competition between two fierce rivals - Robert F. Scott and Roald Amundsen - to secure their place in history as the first man to lead an expedition to the most uninhabitable place on earth. South dramatically tells the story of the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Death Wins in the Arctic

    The Lost Winter Patrol of 1910

    by Kerry Karram ...
    With prospectors, trappers, and whalers pouring into northwestern Canada, the North West Mounted Police were dispatched to the newest frontier to maintain patrols, protect indigenous peoples, and enforce laws in the North. In carrying out their duties, these intrepid men endured rigorous and dangerous conditions.On December 21, 1910, a four-man patrol left Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Viking Anthology

    Norse Myths, Icelandic Sagas and Viking Chronicles

    by Snorri Sturleson, Saemund Sigfusson, Saxo Grammaticus ...
    Series series Bybliotech Discovery
    This vast ebook Anthology is exploding with masterpieces of world literature, ranging from the peerless Icelandic Sagas, to the Norwegian 'Heimskringla', or the 'Chronicle of the Kings of Norway'.As well as these original texts (in English Translation), are several accompanying great works of scholarship which are an essential companion to the texts - assisting the reader in their understanding of ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • From Pole to Pole

    Roald Amundsen's Journey in Flight

    by Garth James Cameron ...
    Roald Amundsen was the most successful polar explorer of his era using sledges, dogs, skis, and ships. He is mainly remembered for being the first man to reach the South Pole on December 14, 1911. What is less often remembered is that he was also the first man to reach the North Pole on May 12, 1926 as the leader of the Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile expedition in the airship Norge. His involvement in ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Stowaway

    A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica

    by Laurie Gwen Shapiro ...
    The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the most remarkable feat of science and daring of the Jazz Age, The Stowaway is “a thrilling adventure that captures not only the making of a man but of a nation” (David Grann, bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon).It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD