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Arctic and Antarctic Exploration Books List Arctic and Antarctic Exploration Books List Abramson H. S. Hero In Disgrace: The True Discoverer of the North Pole, Fredrick A. Cook 1991 Paragon House New York Adams L. H. Beyond The Barrier With Byrd 1932 M. A. Donohue & Company Chicago and New York Albanov V. In the Land of White Death 2000 The Modern Library New York Alexander C. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition 1999 Alfred A. Knope, Inc. New York Allen E. S. Arctic Odyssey: The Life of Rear Admiral Donald B. Macmillan 1962 Dodd, Mead & Company New York Amedeo of Savoy L. On the "Polar Star" in the Arctic Sea (vol. 2) 1903 Hutchinson & co. London Arctic and Antarctic Exploration Books List Page 1 Amedeo of Savoy L. On the "Polar Star" in the Arctic Sea (vol. 1) 1903 Hutchinson & co. London American Geographical Society Problems of Polar Research: A series of Papers 1928 American Geographical Society New York American Geographical Society Two Polar Maps 1930 American Geographical Society New York Amundsen R. My Life as An Explorer 1927 Doubleday, Page & Company New York Amundsen Ellsworth R. L. First Crossing of the Polar Sea 1926 George H. Doran Company New York Amundsen R. My Polar Flight 1930 1925 Hutchinson & co. London Amundsen R. The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram" 1910-1912 (Vol. 1) 1912 John Murray London Arctic and Antarctic Exploration Books List Page 2 Amundsen R. The Northwest Passage (vol 2.) 1908 Archibald Constable And Company Limited Amundsen R. The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the "Fram" 1910-1912 (Vol. 2) 1912 John Murray London Amundsen R. The Northwest Passage (vol 1.) 1908 Archibald Constable And Company Limited Anderson Blair W. C. Jr. Nautilus 90 North 1959 Hodder and Stoughton London Anderson W. E. Expedition South 1957 Evans Brothers Limited London Andree S. A. The Andree diaries 1931 John Lane the Bodley Head LTD. London Angell P. K. To The Top of the World: The True Story of Peary and Henson 1966 Bantam Books New York Arctic and Antarctic Exploration Books List Page 3 Armstrong T. The Russians in the Arctic 1958 Greenwood Press, Publishers Westport, CT Armstrong T. The Northen Sea Route: Soviet Exploitation of the North East Passage 1952 Cambridge University Press Cambridge, England Astrup E. With Peary Near The Pole 1898 C. Arthur Pearson, Limited London Back R. N. Narrative of an Expedition in HMS Terror, Undertaken with a View to Geographical Discovery on the Arctic Shores, in the Years 1836-37 1838 J. Murray London Baidukov G. Over the North Pole 1938 Harcourt, Brace and Company New York Bain A. Life and Exploration of Fridtjof Nansen Walter Scott, LTD. London Balchen B. Come North With Me 1959 Hodder and Stoughton London Arctic and Antarctic Exploration Books List Page 4 Balchen Ford La Farge B. C. O. War Below Zero:The Battle for Greenland 1944 Houghton Mifflin and Company Cambridge, MA Banks M. High Arctic: The Story of the British North Greenland Expedition 1957 J.M. Dent & Sons LTD London Barber N. Adventures at Both Poles 1963 Heinemann London Barber N. The White Desert 1958 Hodder and Stoughton London Barteltt Hale R. A. R. T. The Last Voyage of the Karluk 1916 McClelland, GoodChild & Stewart Toronto, Canada Bartlett B. Sails Over Ice 1934 Charles Scribner's Sons New York Beattie Geiger O. J. Frozen in Time: Unlocking the Secrets of the Franklin Expedition 1987 E. P. Dutton & co. New York Arctic and Antarctic Exploration Books List Page 5 Behrendt J. C. Innocents on the Ice: A Memoir of Antarctic Exploration 1957 1998 University Press of Colorado Niwot, Colorado Bernacchi L. To the South Polar Regions 1991 Bluntisham Books and Erskine Press Denton, England Berton P. The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole. 1818-1909 1988 Penguine Books Ltd. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Bertrand K. J. Americans in Antarctica 1775-1948 1971 American Geographical Society New York Bickel L. Mauson's Will: The Greatest Survival Story Ever Written 1977 Stein and Day New York Bickel L. Shackelton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic 2000 Thunder's Mouth Press New York Binney G. With Sea Plan and Sledge in the Arctic 1925 Hutchinson & co. Southampton, England Arctic and Antarctic Exploration Books List Page 6 Blond G. Ordeal Below Zero: The Heroic Story of the Arctic Convoys in World War 2 1956 Souvenir Press London Bockstoce J. Arctic Passages: A Unique Small-Boat Voyage in the Great Northern Waterway 1991 Hearst Marine Books New York Borchgrevink C. E. First on the Antarctic Continent 1980 C. Hurst & Company London Brainard D. L. The Outpost of The Lost 1929 The Bobbs-Merrill Company Indianapolis, IN Brent P. Captain Scott 1974 Saturday Review Press New York Bristow Hinton J. A. Great True Advernture on Ice and Snow 1957 Arco Publications Limited London Brontman L. On Top of The World: The Soviet Expedition to the North Pole 1937 1938 Victor Gollancz LTD London Arctic and Antarctic Exploration Books List Page 7 Brown Pirie Mossman R. N. R. J. H. H. R. C. The Voyage of the "Scotia": Being the Record of a Voyage Exploration in Antarctic Seas 1978 C. Hurst & Company London Bryce G. The Siege and Conquest of the North Pole 1910 Gibbins & Company Limited London Bryce R. M. Cook & Peary The Polar Contraversy, Resolved 1997 Stackpole Books Mechanicsburg, PA Burk D. Moments of Terror: The Story of Antarctic Aviation 1994 New South Wales University Press Kensington, NSW, Australia Bursey J. Antarctic Night 1958 Longmans, Green and co London Byrd R. E. Discovery: The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition 1935 G. P. Putnam's Sons New York Byrd R. E. Skyward 1930 G. P. Putnam's Sons New York Arctic and Antarctic Exploration Books List Page 8 Byrd R. E. Little America: Ariel Exploration in the Antarctic the Flight to the South Pole 1930 G. P. Putnam's Sons New York Calvert J. Surface at the Pole 1961 Hutchinson & co. London Capelotti P .J. By Airship to the North Pole: An Archaeology of Human Exploration 1999 Rutgers University Press New Jersey and London Chapman F. S. Northen Lights: The Official Account of the British Arcric Air-Route Expedition 1930- 1931 1932 Chatto and Windus London Chapman P. S. Watkin's Last Expedition 1934 Chatto and Windus London Charcot J. The Voyage of The 'Why Not?' in the Antarctic Hodder and Stoughton London Cherry-Garrard A. The Worst Journey in The World : Antarctica 1910-1913 1937 Chatto and Windus London Arctic and Antarctic Exploration Books List Page 9 Christian E. Unflinching: A Diary of Tragic Adventure 1947 Butler & Tanner Ltd. London Clarke B. Polar Flights 1964 Ian Allan London Conefrey Jordan M. T. Icemen: A History of the Arctic and its Explorers 1998 Boxtree London Cook F. A. Return From The Pole 1953 Burk Publishing Co. Ltd. London Cook F. A. To the top of the Continent 1996 The Frederick A. Cook Society Cook F. A. Through the First Antarctic Night 1898-1899 1980 McGill-Queen's University Press Montreal, Canada Cook F. A. My Attainment of The Pole 1911 The Polar Publishing co. New York Arctic and Antarctic Exploration Books List Page 10 Cookman S. Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York Corner G. W. Doctor Kane of The Arctic Seas 1972 Temple University Press Philadelphia, PA Cowper D. S. Northwest Passage Solo 1993 Seafarer Books London Cross W. Ghost Ship of The Pole 1960 Heinemann London Crouse N. M. The Search for The North Pole 1947 Richard R. Smith New York Curlee L. Into the Ice: The Story of Arctic Exploration 1998 Houghton Mifflin and Company Boston, MA Cyriax R. J. Sir John Franklin's Last Arctic Expedition 1997 The Arctic Press Plaistow & Sutton Coldfield West Sussex, England Arctic and Antarctic Exploration Books List Page 11 Dahl K. R. The "Teddy" Expedition: Among the Ice Floes of Greenland 1925 D. Appleton and Company New York Davis Ch Narrative of the North Polar Expedition U.S. Ship Polaris 1876 Governnet Printing Office Washington Day B. Glacier Pilot 1971 Holt, Rinehart and Winston De La Croix R. Mysteries of the North Pole 1956 John Day Company New York De Long E. The Voyage of The Jeanette: The Ship and Ice Journals of George W. De Long (vol 2) 1883 Houghton Mifflin and Company Boston, MA De Long E. The Voyage of The Jeanette: The Ship and Ice Journals of George W. De Long (vol 1) 1883 Houghton Mifflin and Company Boston, MA Debenam F. Antarctica: The Story of a Continent 1959 Herbert Jenkins London Arctic and Antarctic Exploration Books List Page 12 Decleir H. Roald Amundsen's Belgica Diary: The First Scientific Expedition to the Antarctic 1999 Bluntisham Books and Erskine Press wymondham, England Dodge E. S. The Polar Rosses: John and James Ross and their Exploration 1973 Faber and Faber London Dolan, Jr. E. F. Black Explorer 1979 Dodd, Mead & Company New York Dolan, Jr. E. F. White Battlegrounds: The Conquest of the Arctic 1961 Dodd, Mead & Company New York Dufek G. J. Operation Deepfreeze 1957 Harcourt, Brace & World Dufek G. J. Through The Forzen Frontier: The Exploration of Antarctica 1960 Brockhampton Press Leicester, England Dumond D. E. The Eskimos and Aleuts 1987 Thames and Hudson London Arctic and Antarctic Exploration Books List Page 13 Dyson J. L. The World of Ice 1962 Alfred A. Knope, Inc. New York Eames H. Winner Lose All: Dr. Cook and the Theft of the North Pole 1973 Little, Brown and Company Boston, MA Ellsberg E.
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