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FATHER'S DAY

City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas

Roger Crowley

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PROVENCE & THE COTE D'AZUR

A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

Georgeanne Brennan

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OUR FAVORITES

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

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PENGUIN CLASSICS

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck

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A Chronology of Antarctic Exploration

A Chronology of Antarctic Exploration


by Robert Headland

  • REFERENCE
  • 2009
  • HARD COVER
  • 722 PAGES

Congratulations Bob! This second edition of Scott Polar Institute archivist and Antarctican extrordainaire's authoritative sourcebook on Antarctic discovery and exploration, several years in the making, includes 4,865 entries (!) covering human activity in the Antarctic from 700 BC to 2008. With 38 figures, 72 maps, an index you wouldn't believe and introductory chapter on Antarctic geography, resources and politics, this pricey book is a key reference. (ANT217, $190.00)

Ninety Degrees North, The Quest for the North Pole

Ninety Degrees North, The Quest for the North Pole


by Fergus Fleming

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 496 PAGES

A thrilling, artfully told chronicle of the mostly 19th-century adventurers, madmen and explorers who quested after the North Pole. (ARC124, $15.00)

Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer

Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer


by Chauncey Loomis | Andrea Barrett

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 350 PAGES

The tale of 19th-century Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall, and the mysterious circumstances surrounding his untimely death somewhere in Greenland. (ARC63, $19.00)

The Ice Master, The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk

The Ice Master, The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk


by Jennifer Niven

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 402 PAGES

Nivens draws on diaries, journals and letters to reconstruct, month by month, the tragic fate of the ambitious Canadian Arctic Expedition in 1913-1918. Eleven men died. The charismatic, scene-stealing Stefannson (who blamed Captain Bob Bartlett and leaves the ship as soon as it is trapped in the ice) gets a good drubbing by Niven. (ARC130, $19.95)

Icebound, The Jeanette Expedition's Quest for the North Pole

Icebound, The Jeanette Expedition's Quest for the North Pole


by Leonard F. Guttridge

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 327 PAGES

The tale of being crushed in the ice and making it ashore on the New Siberian Islands. (ARC43, $22.95)

Call of the North, An Explorer's Journey to the North Pole

Call of the North, An Explorer's Journey to the North Pole


by Andre Malaurie

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2001
  • HARD COVER
  • 336 PAGES

A handsome, oversize memoir and celebration of the Inuit by the French polar explorer (Last Kings of Thule), featuring 300 of Malaurie's color photographs spanning 50 years in the Arctic. Malaurie became the first Frenchman to reach the Pole by dogsled in 1951. (ARC109, $60.00)

Frozen in Time, The Fate of the Franklin Expedition

Frozen in Time, The Fate of the Franklin Expedition


by Owen Beattie | John Geiger

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 185 PAGES

An exhaustive examination of the evidence surrounding the disappearance of the Franklin Expedition. Beattie and Geiger, a forensic anthropologist and historian, build a credible tale of the disappearance of the expedition. (ARC81, $22.95)

Near Death in the Arctic

Near Death in the Arctic


by Ceci Kuhne

  • LITERATURE
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 384 PAGES

Including disaster tales from the Antarctic, too, this compendium of sub-zero survival stories chronicles adventurers from Ernest Shackleton to Richard E. Byrd. (ARC224, $15.95)

 

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