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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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ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION

Worth Looking For

Great White South


by Herbert Ponting | Roland Huntford

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 305 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

Ponting's classic and often revealing account account of Scott's last expedition. (ANT94, $18.95)

Alone, The Classic Polar Adventure

Alone, The Classic Polar Adventure


by Richard E. Byrd | Kieran Mulvaney

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 309 PAGES

The classic journal kept by Byrd through the long Antarctic night. (ANT74, $27.50)

Home of the Blizzard, The Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914

Home of the Blizzard, The Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914


by Douglas Mawson

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 438 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

This 1915 classic by explorer and Australian national hero Sir Douglas Mawson, one of the great stories of Antarctic adventure and exploration. (ANT65, $14.95)

A First Rate Tragedy, Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole

A First Rate Tragedy, Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole


by Diana Preston

  • EXPLORATION
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 269 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

Preston tackles the classic questions of Scott's judgment and character with insight. (ANT53, $17.95)

I May Be Some Time, Ice and the English Imagination

I May Be Some Time, Ice and the English Imagination


by Francis Spufford

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 372 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

An imaginative history of the myths, symbols and culture of British polar exploration -- and especially its focus on the martyr, suffering and death with a stiff upper lip. Fascinating. (ANT58, $19.95)

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