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The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912

By: Amundsen, Captain Roald

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Cooper Square Press: November 2000

Seller ID: 333929

ISBN: 0815411278

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Roald Amundsen records his race to be the first man to reach the South Pole. Amundsen's expertise enabled him to succeed where his predecessors, and competitors, did not. His rival Captain Robert F. Scott not only failed to reach the Pole first, but--due to poor preparation and miscalculation--died with the rest of his party on their return trip. The South Pole remains one of the greatest and most important books on polar exploration.
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Race to the South Pole (The Great Adventures)

By: Amundsen, Roald

Price: $8.95

Publisher: White Star: March 2007

Seller ID: 287602

ISBN: 8854402176

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Part historical essay, part scientific article, and part enthralling diary-Roald Amundsen's (1872-1928) book presents intriguing documentation about how his expedition reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911, just one month ahead of his rival, Robert Scott. Amundsen organized his gripping account using what is referred to in the film industry as the zooming technique. It starts in the past, examining the history of Antarctic exploration in different eras, and then moves ahead to describe how his own expedition was created, its organization, the slow stages involved in preparing for departu...
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The raft Lehi IV;: 69 days adrift on the Pacific Ocean

By: Baker, DeVere

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Whitehorn Pub. Co: January 1959

Seller ID: 318152

ISBN: B0007EZMAW

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Yukon Alone: The World's Toughest Adventure Race

By: Balzar, John

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.: January 2000

Seller ID: 334804

ISBN: 0805059490

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In the tradition of Into the Wild, a story of daring and determination in one of nature's harshest, loneliest, and most beautiful places.
The Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race is among the most challenging and dangerous of all the organized sporting events in the world. Every February, a handful of hardy souls sps over two weeks racing sleds pulled by fourteen dogs over 1,023 miles of frozen rivers, icy mountain passes, and spruce forests as big as entire states. It's not unusual for the temperature to drop to 40-below or for the night to be seventeen hours long.
Why would anyone...
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

By: Bergreen, Laurence

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Perennial / HarperCollins: November 2004

Seller ID: 347072

ISBN: 006093638X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan's historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage

"Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner."-- New York Times Book Review

Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning biographer and journalist <...
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The Klondike Quest: A Photographic Essay, 1897-1899

By: Berton, Pierre

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Little, Brown: January 1983

Seller ID: 286957

ISBN: 0316092185

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Kalahari.

By: Bjerre, Jens.

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Hill and Wang: January 1960

Seller ID: 160834

ISBN: B0000CKJ6F

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

King of the Wa-Kikuyu: A True Story of Travel and Adventure in Africa (Library of African Adventure)

By: Boyes, John

Price: $11.95

Publisher: St Martins Pr: June 1993

Seller ID: 345038

ISBN: 0312093209

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Frugal Yachting: Family Adventuring in Small Sailboats

By: Brown, Larry

Price: $5.95

Publisher: International Marine: March 1994

Seller ID: 351618

ISBN: 0070082472

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Brown discusses the approaches to eating, sleeping, sanitation, storage, and safety on the smallest (15- to-24-foot) cruising sailboats, and reviews the various hull forms and sail plans available. This book is a revised edition of Brown's Sailing on a Microbudget, which reviewers called the winner for daysailing and weekend cruising'' (ENSIGN) and a real joy to read, reaffirming the adage that simple is better' with compact grace and style'' (Small Boat Journal).
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Gipsy Moth Circles the World

By: Chichester, Sir Francis

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Coward-McCann: January 1967

Seller ID: 365462

ISBN: B0007ER58E

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Voyage of A Summer Sun: Canoeing the Columbia River

By: Cody, Robin

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Sasquatch Books: October 1996

Seller ID: 327006

ISBN: 1570610835

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Voyage of A Summer Sun: Canoeing the Columbia River

By: Cody, Robin

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Sasquatch Books: October 1996

Seller ID: 327029

ISBN: 1570610835

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Cannibal Queen: An Aerial Odyssey Across America

By: Coonts, Stephen

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Pocket Books: June 1992

Seller ID: 129590

ISBN: 067174884X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Man-Eaters of Kumaon

By: Corbett, Jim

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: January 1946

Seller ID: 331332

ISBN: B001G15ZHU

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Arctic wild

By: Crisler, Lois

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Harper: January 1958

Seller ID: 332969

ISBN: B0006AV15C

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Alone: The Man Who Braved the Vast Pacific and Won

By: D'Aboville, Gerard

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Arcade Publishing: June 1994

Seller ID: 337165

ISBN: 155970246X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The incredible story of one man's heroic battle against almost impossible odds, Alone tells of d'Aboville's mission to row across the Pacific Ocean. A gripping story not just of physical endurance but of mental and spiritual fortitude.--Publishers Weekly. Introduction by Paul Theroux. 24 photos, 22 in color. Map.
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Alone: The Man Who Braved the Vast Pacific and Won

By: D'Aboville, Gerard

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Arcade Publishing: June 1994

Seller ID: 351615

ISBN: 155970246X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Explorers: Tales of Endurance and Exploration

By: DK

Price: $9.95

Publisher: DK Publishing: September 2010

Seller ID: 346406

ISBN: 0756667372

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the first people to leave Africa to the first to leave the planet, the urge to explore the unknown has driven human progress. DK's "Explorers" tells the story of humanity's explorations, taking the reader into the lives of some of the most intrepid people ever known. Focusing on 50 of the world's greatest explorers, with shorter entries on 60 of their helpers and companions, the book is filled with first-person accounts in the explorers' own words, rare maps, specially commissioned photographs, and artworks re-create history's greatest expeditions. From trade and the search for lands to c...
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