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| Ambassador to the Penguins: A Naturalist's Year Aboard a Yankee Whaleship
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Eleanor Mathews.
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| Publisher: Godine. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781567922462. Daedalus Item Code: 23576 |
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| "Robert Cushman Murphy—ornithologist, oceanographer, photographer, and prescient conservationist—recognized his calling early and found encouragement at the American Museum of Natural History, where ... (Read More)
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| Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699–1839
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Alan Gurney.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780393329049. Daedalus Item Code: 23872 |
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| In a wonderfully written book that "will delight both the armchair traveler and the intellectual tourist" (Chicago Tribune), former yacht designer Alan Gurney tells of the first Herculean ... (Read More)
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| The Book of Exploration
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Ray Howgego.
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| Publisher: Bloomsbury. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781608190591. Daedalus Item Code: 30287 |
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| Presented in a fine oversized edition with an elegantly simple format, this entertaining survey of heroic exploration from the author of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Exploration profiles ... (Read More)
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| By Airship to the North Pole: An Archaeology of Human Exploration
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P.J. Capelotti.
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| Publisher: Rutgers. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780813526331. Daedalus Item Code: 30200 |
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| Archaeologist and social science lecturer P.J. Capelotti here interprets the media reports and the physical remains of two particularly reckless attempts to reach the North Pole by air. Swedish ... (Read More)
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| Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See
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Robert Kurson.
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| Publisher: Random House/QPB. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780739489475. Daedalus Item Code: 01019 |
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| By any definition Mike May was an exceptional person, breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. Amazingly, ... (Read More)
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| Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage That Redrew the Map of the New World
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Douglas Hunter.
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| Publisher: Bloomsbury. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781596916807. Daedalus Item Code: 31899 |
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| The year 2009 marked the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's discovery of the majestic river that bears his name. Commissioned by the Dutch East India Company to find a northeastern passage over ... (Read More)
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| The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton, and Antarctic Photography
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David Hempleman-Adams, Sophie Gordon & Emma Stuart.
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| Publisher: Bloomsbury. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781608190072. Daedalus Item Code: 30288 |
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| In this treasure trove of photographs and artifacts from the royal collection at Windsor Castle, the stories of Britain's two greatest Antarctic expeditions are told in the up-close, at times ... (Read More)
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| In the Shadow of Mount McKinley
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William N. Beach. Carl Rungius, illus.
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| Publisher: Derrydale Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781568331553. Daedalus Item Code: 21958 |
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| Originally published in 1931, these tales and descriptions of the wilderness around Alaska's Mount McKinley (now better known as Denali) were written by outdoorsman and big game hunter William ... (Read More)
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| Klondike Gold
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Alice Provensen.
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| Publisher: Simon & Schuster. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780689848858. Daedalus Item Code: 82988 |
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| Caldecott Medal winner Alice Provensen has been illustrating children's books since the 1940s (many of them with her late husband Martin) and her art is unique and self-assured, adapting itself to ... (Read More)
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