Antarctica History

Life in the Cold: An Introduction to Winter Ecology, fourth edition

Peter J. Marchand’s Life in the Cold remains the one book that offers a comprehensive picture of the interactions of plants and animals—including humans—with their cold-weather environment. Focusing on the problems of “winter-active” organisms, Marchand illuminates the many challenges of sustaining life in places that demand extraordinary adaptations. The fourth edition of this classic text includes a new …

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Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination (Canadian Studies Series)

The glaciers creepLike snakes that watch their prey, from their far fountains,Slow rolling on.– Percy Shelley, “Mont Blanc,” 1816Glaciers in America’s far northwest figure prominently in indigenous oral traditions, early travelers’ journals, and the work of geophysical scientists. By following such stories across three centuries, this book explores local knowledge, colonial encounters, and environmental change.Do Glaciers Listen? examines …

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My Life as an Explorer (Eyewitness Accounts)

My Life as an Explorer is a classic of Polar literature, written by the first man to set foot on the South Pole. Amundsen’s passion for exploring first led him to the Antarctic in the 1897–99 Belgian expedition and then led him on a journey around the top of Canada to prove the existence of the North West …

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Ancient People of the Arctic

Ancient People of the Arctic traces the lives of the Palaeo Eskimos, the bold first explorers of the Arctic. Four thousand years ago, these people entered the far northern extremes of the North American continent, carving a living out of their bleak new homeland. From the hints they left behind, accessible only through the fragmented archaeological record, Robert …

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Life Among the Qallunaat (First Voices, First Texts)

Life Among the Qallunaat is the story of Mini Aodla Freeman’s experiences growing up in the Inuit communities of James Bay and her journey in the 1950s from her home to the strange land and stranger customs of the Qallunaat, those living south of the Arctic. Her extraordinary story, sometimes humourous and sometimes heartbreaking, illustrates an Inuit woman’s …

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