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Author
Series
Fargo adventure volume 6
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Baffin Island: Husband-and-wife team Sami and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved--and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A visually stunning journey to the end of the world with the hardy and devoted people who live there year-round. The research stations scattered throughout the continent host a close-knit international population of scientists, technicians and craftsmen. Isolated from the rest of the world, enduring months of unending darkness followed by periods when the sun never sets, Antarctic residents experience firsthand the beauty and brutality of the most...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Based on the author's exhaustive research, the incredible true story of the Greely Expedition, one of the most harrowing adventures in the annals of polar exploration. In July 1881, Lt. A.W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made. Greely and his men confronted every possible...
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A whaler's daughter, Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve and fell in love with the cold and unforgiving terrain. In 1889, she sets out to become a scientist and explorer. Despite those who believe that a young woman has no place in this harsh world of men, her determination leads her back to northern Greenland at the head of a British expedition. Yearning for wider horizons, American geologist Jakob de Beyn joins a rival...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A dozen women join a secret 1850s Arctic expedition--and a sensational murder trial unfolds when some of them don't come back. Eccentric Lady Jane Franklin makes an outlandish offer to adventurer Virginia Reeve: take a dozen women, trek into the Arctic, and find her husband's lost expedition. Four parties have failed to find him, and Lady Franklin wants a radical new approach: put the women in charge. A year later, Virginia stands trial for murder....
Publisher
Albatross
Pub. Date
[2007?]
Language
English
Description
"Stunning aerial photography uncovers the vast diversity to be found in Israel's landscapes, history, and archaeology." Hear the stories of peoples, religions and cultures that passed through the land, fought over it, lived in it, and prayed for it."
Not rated.
Author
Publisher
Octane Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
On a perfect day in March, 2009, with the temperature hovering near -40° Fahrenheit, John Huston and Tyler Fish stepped off the North American continent and onto the frozen, jumbled surface of the Arctic Ocean. The two seasoned adventurers had their sights set on one goal: to travel under their own power to the North Pole without resupply. If they succeeded, they d be the first Americans to do so. Forward is their story. Over a period of nearly...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In addition to investigating all serious claims as to who was the first to step foot in the Americas, the author delves into the continent's most ancient mysteries to show budding historians that historical sleuthing takes years of hard work, puzzle solving, and comparing legends and artifacts.
16) Polar worlds
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"INsiders brings the polar worlds to life, with the most up-to-date information and state-of-the-art 3-D illustrations that practically leap off every page, stimulating minds and imaginations in a whole new way."--Cover back.
Author
Series
Publisher
DK/Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Discover what it takes to be a scientist on an expedition to Antarctica to drill ice cores for research. Experience the harsh conditions of this polar landscape, learn how to survive, and find out about the intrepid explorers from the past who set out to reach the South Pole. --Publisher.
19) Almost heroes
Publisher
Warner Home Video, Inc
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A road comedy about 2 guys whose mission is to overtake the famed expeditioners Lewis and Clark and be the more fiery trailblazers of the Western North America frontier.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change. Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet that covers it is 700 miles wide and 1,500 miles long, and is composed of nearly three quadrillion tons of ice. For the last 150 years, explorers and scientists...
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