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Ring of Ice: True Tales of Adventure, Exploration, and Arctic Life

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: The Lyons Press: December 2003

Seller ID: 332072

ISBN: 1592281362

Condition: Used - Very Good

Spanning the years from 1741 to the present, Ring of Ice presents many Arctic tales, including the story of Captain Tyson and his crew who, marooned by their own shipmates, were forced to float precariously on a tiny iceberg for five months before being rescued. And the tale of Duncan Pryde, a fur trader employed by the Hudson's Bay Company, who finds himself unwittingly caught up in the Inuit tradition of wife exchange. life among the Inuit, as told through dozens of native poems and legends, as well as by some of today's best writers, including Finn Lynge and Rachel A. Qitsualik.
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My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile

By: Allende, Isabel

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Harper: June 2003

Seller ID: 317393

ISBN: 006054564X

Condition: Used - Very Good

Isabel Allende's first memory of Chile is of a house she never knew. The "large old house" on the Calle Cueto, where her mother was born and which her grandfather evoked so frequently that Isabel felt as if she had lived there, became the protagonist of her first novel, The House of the Spirits. It appears again at the beginning of Allende's playful, seductively compelling memoir My Invented Country, and leads us into this gifted writer's world.

Here are the almost mythic figures of a Chilean family -- grandparents and great-grandparents, aunts, uncles, and friends ...
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Sailing the Pacific: A Voyage Across the Longest Stretch of Water on Earth, and a Journey into Its Past

By: Hordern, Miles

Price: $6.50

Publisher: St. Martin's Press: April 2003

Seller ID: 322300

ISBN: 0312310811

Condition: Used - Very Good

Solo sailors are widely known to be a breed apart, and here's an unforgettable book that shows just how wide a berth they give themselves from the crowds. Several years ago, Miles Hordern, a schoolteacher by training---though he had run away to sea a few times before---set sail on a twenty-eight-foot boat from New Zealand to South America, the largest uninterrupted stretch of water on earth, and into the dominion of icebergs, cyclones, and swells of monumental proportions. The trip would take him through the fjords of Patagonia, one of the last uncharted areas in the world, then north on the P...
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Chasing Shackleton: Re-creating the World's Greatest Journey of Survival

By: Jarvis, Tim

Price: $7.50

Publisher: William Morrow: January 2014

Seller ID: 344470

ISBN: 0062282735

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this extraordinary adventure memoir and tie-in to the PBS documentary, Tim Jarvis, one of the world's leading explorers, describes his modern-day journey to retrace, for the first time ever--and in period clothing and gear--the legendary 1914 expedition of Sir Ernest Shackleton.

In early 1914, British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his team sailed for Antarctica, attempting to be the first to reach the South Pole. Instead of glory, Shackleton and his crew found themselves in an epic struggle for survival: a three-year odyssey on the ice and oceans of the Antarctic that endures ...
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My First Summer in the Sierra

By: John Muir

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Barnes and Noble: January 2006

Seller ID: 50028

ISBN: 0760784523

Condition: Used - Very Good

No Summit out of Sight

By: Jordan Romero

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.: January 2016

Seller ID: 320817

ISBN: 1338013254

Condition: Used - Very Good

Into the Wild

By: Krakauer

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Anchor: February 1997

Seller ID: 297573

ISBN: 0385486804

Condition: Used - Very Good

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.

Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a ...
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

By: Lansing

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Tyndale House: June 1999

Seller ID: 84451

ISBN: 0842308245

Condition: Used - Very Good

In 1914, an expedition headed by Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to be the first to cross the continent of Antarctica. Shipwrecked and marooned for months on end, their ill-fated voyage became a triumphant story of indomitable courage and faith in the face of astounding obstacles.

A bestseller since it was first published in 1959, Alfred Lansing's Endurance now features a foreword and afterword from Dr. James Dobson--inspiring every reader to persevere no matter how impossible the challenge.
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Untold Secrets of Planet Earth: Amazon Expedition (Discovery Series)

By: Nelson

Price: $5.50

Seller ID: 327744

ISBN: 0986882135

Condition: Used - Very Good

Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season

By: Nichols, Peter

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Putnam Adult: October 2009

Seller ID: 322287

ISBN: 039915602X

Condition: Used - Very Good

In the summer of 1871, 32 whaling ships, carrying 12-year-old William Fish Williams, a whaling captain & 1218 other men, women & children, were destroyed in an Arctic storm. In a rescue operation of unparalleled daring & heroism, not a single life was lost, but the impact on America's first oil industry was fateful & catastrophic.
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