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Arctic Kingdom, Life at the Edge
• National Geographic Society
NATURAL HISTORY •
2009 •
DVD
Stalk the Arctic ice with the fiercest predator, the polar bear, as it prowls one of the most forbidding places on the planet: a hidden kingdom of magnificent creatures. Armed with a keen sense of smell and backed up by 1,700 pounds, fur and fangs, the polar bear stands alone at the top of the food chain. Yet many other hunters manage to survive in and around harsh arctic waters from the savvy arctic fox to the massive, whiskered walrus. The Arctic ice is revealed as a place of danger and drama as animals are stranded on frozen waters, trapped between moving sheets of ice, and caught in the struggle to survive. Brave the worst that nature has to offer.
(ARC284, $19.95) |
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Poles Apart
• Galen Rowell
EXPLORATION •
1997 •
PAPER
• 184 PAGES
Noted landscape photographer Galen Rowell turns his attention to the ends of the earth: a gorgeous collection of 188 color photographs with insightful commentary on the story behind each picture -- including the technical data for the photographers among us. Any well produced volume of Antarctic photography is bound to be breathtaking but we appreciate Rowell's attention to light and form. Rowell, who was a 1992 National Science Foundation Artist-in-Residence, also traveled on several tourist expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic, and this book includes many photographs taken during his time aboard the Kapitan Khlebnikov.
(ANT27, $45.00) |
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To the Arctic! The Story of Northern Exploration from Earliest Times
• Jeanette Mirsky
EXPLORATION •
1997 •
PAPER
• 334 PAGES
• COMING IN
A classic and wide-ranging narrative of Arctic exploration from the Dutch in Spitsbergen to the Russian Great Northern Expedition, the search for Franklin and the quest for the North Pole, originally published in 1934 and updated in 1970. It includes an excellent chapter on the discovery and exploration of Franz Josef Land.
(ARC31, $17.00) |
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In the Land of White Death, An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic
• Valerian Albanov
• David Roberts
• Jon Krakauer
EXPLORATION •
2001 •
PAPER
• 243 PAGES
A spare account of Albanov's 90-day trek over the open pack to Cape Flora. After drifting helplessly north for over a year, Albanov and ten colleagues abandon ship, and set out on foot for Franz Josef Land with a sledge, makeshift boat -- and only the map from the endpaper of Nansen's Farthest North. Of the original crew of the "Saint Anna," only Albanov and one colleague survived the ordeal. Originally published in 1917 and translated here for the first time into English.
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