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 …
The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled Northwest Passage. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound waters of the Canadian Arctic in search …
A History of Arctic Exploration: Discovery, Adventure and Endurance at the Top of the World
As global warming melts polar ice and opens northern seaways, a book on Arctic exploration couldn’t be timelier. This one fills the bill in grand style. Filled with rare illustrations, it tells stories of triumph and tragedy in the search for the fabled Northwest Passage and the race for the North Pole. Along with familiar explorers, including Captain …
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 …
Meta Incognita: A Discourse of Discovery Martin FrobisherÕs Arctic Expeditions, 1576-1578 (Mercury)
In the summer of 1701, negotiations were held between the French, their Native allies, and the Iroquois in the town of Montreal, the heart of New France, to sign the Great Peace treaty. This book recounts the story of this exceptional event in words and images, painting a picture of a legendary time in North America, when …
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 …
Leadership Lessons from the Race to the South Pole: Why Amundsen Lived and Scott Died
A project management expert identifies methods for running any project successfully based on lessons learned from the exploits of two storied …
Race for the South Pole: The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen
For the first time ever Roland Huntford presents each man’s full account of the race to the South Pole in their own …
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 …
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 …