Polar Regions 9

This richly illustrated book takes a different angle on Robert E. Peary’s North Pole expedition. By shifting the focus away from the unanswerable question of whether he truly reached 90º North Latit……続きを見る

Long at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map of the world, the Arctic has found its way to the center of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty……続きを見る

In this addition to the What Everyone Needs to Know? series, David Day examines the most forbidding and formidably inaccessible continent on Earth. For over a century following its discovery by Euro……続きを見る

In The Greening of Antarctica Alessandro Antonello investigates the development of an international regime of environmental protection and management between the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1……続きを見る

Conversations defining the Arctic region often provoke debate and controversy -- for scientists, this lies in the imprecise and imaginary line known as the Arctic Circle; for countries like Canada, ……続きを見る

Charles Turley's 'The Voyages of Captain Scott' is a meticulously researched account of the legendary Antarctic expeditions led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott. The book provides a comprehensive look……続きを見る

Conversations defining the Arctic region often provoke debate and controversy -- for scientists, this lies in the imprecise and imaginary line known as the Arctic Circle; for countries like Canada, ……続きを見る

“One helluva read.”ーNewsweek • “Gripping.”ーOutside • “Spellbinding.”ーAssociated Press • “Powerful.”ーNew York In 1912, the Saint Anna, a Russian exploration vessel in search of fertile hunting gr……続きを見る

The Technocratic Antarctic is an ethnographic account of the scientists and policymakers who work on Antarctica. In a place with no indigenous people, Antarctic scientists and policymakers use exper……続きを見る

Er galt als blinder Fleck, als Problem, als Ende der Welt und ewig ungelöstes Geheimnis: der Nordpol. Während andere rätselten und rechneten, schritt ein verrückter Zeitungsverleger auf der Jagd nac……続きを見る

Over the century between the first Oblate mission to the Canadian central Arctic in 1867 and the radical shifts brought about by Vatican II, the region was the site of complex interactions between I……続きを見る

The U.S. Naval Institute Wheel Books provide important information, pragmatic advice, and cogent analysis on topics important to all naval professionals. Drawn from the U.S. Naval Institute's vast a……続きを見る

In this third volume of In Those Days, Harper shares stories of the rise and fall of the whaling industry in the Eastern Canadian Arctic. At the turn of the nineteenth century, whale baleen and blub……続きを見る

Arctic historian Kenn Harper gathers the best of his columns about Inuit history, which appear weekly in Nunatsiaq News, in this exciting new series of books. Each installment of In Those Days: Coll……続きを見る

Kenn Harper shares the tales of murderers, thieves, and fraudsters--as well as the wrongfully accused--in the early days of Northern colonization. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, settler ……続きを見る

David Crane has given us the definitive biography of one of Britain’s greatest heroes and explorers. ‘It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more…For God’s sake look after our people.’ Thes……続きを見る

Agnes Deans Cameron's 'The New North' is a captivating exploration of the once-mysterious and unknown regions of the Canadian Arctic at the turn of the 20th century. Cameron's writing style is both ……続きを見る

In 'Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827,' Sir John Richardson and John Franklin offer an enthralling collection that not only chronicle……続きを見る

In 'New lands within the Arctic Circle' by Julius Payer, the author provides a detailed account of his exploration of uncharted territories in the Arctic. Written in a straightforward and informativ……続きを見る

The leader of the relief expedition gives a short account of the journey to Peary's Aid.続きを見る

Did Alaska create the music of John Luther Adams, or did the music create his Alaska? For the past thirty years, the vastness of Alaska has swept through the distant reaches of the composer's imagin……続きを見る

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised. It is the only form of adventure in which you put on your clothes at Michaelmas and keep ……続きを見る

George P. Marsh's 'The Whelps of the Wolf' is a pioneering work of American nature writing, intertwining vivid descriptions of the landscape with profound reflections on the human impact on the envi……続きを見る

In William H. Gilder's book, 'Schwatka's Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records,' readers are transported to the harsh and unforgiving Arctic landscape as they follow the ex……続きを見る

In 'North-Pole Voyages' by Zachariah Atwell Mudge, readers are transported to a world of thrilling adventures and undiscovered landscapes. Written in a detailed and descriptive style, the book captu……続きを見る

The 'Journal of a Voyage from Okkak, on the Coast of Labrador, to Ungava Bay, Westward of Cape Chudleigh' is a seminal collection that spans the genres of travel writing, historical narrative, and e……続きを見る

Across a rich terrain of empirical and theoretical trajectories, the concept of military masculinity (now understood in its plural as military masculinities) has been a significant conceptual tool i……続きを見る

The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries--the Northwe……続きを見る

Among the explorers made famous for revealing hitherto impenetrable cultures-T. E. Lawrence and Wilfred Thesiger in the Middle East, Richard Burton in Africa-Knud Rasmussen stands out not only for h……続きを見る

Rex Beach's 'Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories' presents a collection of gripping and entertaining tales set against the backdrop of the Klondike Gold Rush. Beach's writing style captures the wil……続きを見る