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(Paperback)

By: Fridjtof Nansen

ISBN: 9780375754722
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1999
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Provides an account of the three-year Arctic voyage to the North Pole and the team's struggle against snowdrifts, ice floes, polar bears, scurvy, and hunger, and their accomplishment of travelling farther north than any other Western expedition.


(Paperback)

By: Valerian Albanov

ISBN: 9780679783619
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2001
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Including a new Epilogue, this is "one helluva read" ("Newsweek") and a chilling first-person account of extreme survival in the Siberian Arctic, rediscovered by Jon Krakauer and David Roberts. "Vivid . . . [a work of] terrifying beauty."--"The Boston Globe."


(Paperback)

By: Chauncey Loomis

ISBN: 9780375755255
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2000
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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The "first-rate detective story" ("The New York Times Book Review") of an amateur explorer in search of the lost Franklin expedition who perished amid rumors of murder and mutiny in the far North.


(Paperback)

By: Roland Huntford

ISBN: 9780375754746
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1999
UK Publication Date: 7th September 1999
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Recounts the efforts of Scott, a British explorer, and Amundsen, a Norwegian, to be the first to reach the South Pole.