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Carver County Library Suggests The Great White North

Brian Castner - Disappointment River: finding and losing the (971.901 CAS 2018)

In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie traveled 1200 miles on the river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. In 2016, Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe and discovered the Passage he could not find. This is a dual historical narrative and travel memoir that transports readers back to the heroic age of North American exploration and places them in a still rugged but increasingly fragile wilderness in the

process of profound alteration. Edward J. Larson - To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the race for three poles, and the climax of the age of exploration (998 LAR 2018) As 1909 dawned, the greatest jewels of exploration lay unclaimed: the North and South Poles and the so-called "Third Pole," the pole of altitude, located in unexplored Himalaya. In the course of one extraordinary year, and Matthew Henson were hailed as the discovers of the ; set a new geographic "Furthest South" record while his expedition mate , reached the Magnetic ; and Italy's Duke of Abruzzi attained an altitude record that would stand for a generation. Rosemary McGuire - Rough Crossing: an Alaskan fisherwoman’s memoir (921 MCGUIRE 2017) Knowing next to nothing about fishing, Rosemary McGuire signed on to the crew of the Arctic Storm in Homer, Alaska, looking for money and experience. Cold, hard work and starkly sexist harassment were what she found. Here is her story of life on a fishing boat as the only woman crew member. Both an adult coming- of-age tale and a candid look at the Alaskan fishing industry, this is the story of a woman in a man's world. Constance Helmericks - Down the Wild River North (917.1231 HEL) In suburban Arizona, 1964, Connie Helmericks announced to her two daughters, 12-year-old Ann and 14-year-old Jean, "We're going to make a canoe expedition to the ." And for two successive summers, that's exactly what they did, in the a twenty-foot canoe, amidst a wondrous landscape. Paul Watson - Ice Ghosts: the epic hunt for the lost Franklin Expedition (919.804 WAT 2017) Watson was part of the expedition discovering the HMS Erebus in 2014, and he broke the news of the discovery of the HMS Terror in 2016. Here he tells the story of the Franklin Expedition: Sir and his crew setting off from England in search of the fabled Northwest Passage; the hazards they encountered and the reasons they were forced to abandon ship after getting stuck in the ice hundreds of miles from the nearest outpost of civilization.

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Morten Stroksnes - Shark Drunk: the art of catching a large shark from a tiny rubber dinghy in a big ocean (338.3727 STR 2017) The Lofoten archipelago is a place of unsurpassed beauty - the radiant greens and purples of the Northern Lights follow summers where the sun never sets. Beneath the great depths surrounding these islands lurks the infamous shark. At twenty-four feet in length and weighing more than a ton, its meat contains a toxin that, when consumed, has been known to make people drunk and hallucinatory. In a tiny rubber boat, the author and a friend embark on a wild pursuit of the famed creature.

Kevin Vallely - Rowing the Northwest Passage: adventure, fear, and awe in a rising sea (797.123 VAL 2017) Four seasoned adventurers navigate a sophisticated, high-tech rowboat across the Northwest Passage. One of the "last firsts" remaining in the adventure world, this journey is only possible because of the impacts of global warming in the high Arctic. The team repeatedly face life-threatening danger from storms unparalleled in their ferocity and unpredictability and bear witness to unprecedented changes in the Arctic habitat and inhabitants.

Eric Larsen - On Thin Ice: an epic final quest into the melting Arctic (910.9113 LAR 2018) In 2014, Eric Larsen and Ryan Waters set out to traverse nearly 500 miles across the melting Arctic Ocean. Despite being one of the most cold and hostile environments on the planet, the ocean has seen a significant reduction of over the past seven years due to climate change. Traveling across the sea ice on skis or snowshoes and swimming through semi-frozen arctic slush, they each pulled over 320 pounds of gear behind them on sleds through temperatures that plummeted to nearly 70 degrees below zero. It was, in Larsen's words, "easily one of the most difficult expeditions in the world." Stephen R. Bown - Island of the Blue Foxes: disaster and triumph on the world’s greatest scientific expedition (910.92 BOW 2017) The immense 18th-century scientific journey the Second Kamchatka Expedition stretched from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and cost Peter the Great over one-sixth of his empire's annual revenue. This ten-year venture discovered Alaska, opened the Pacific fur trade, and led to fame, shipwreck, and "one of the most tragic and ghastly trials of suffering in the annals of maritime and arctic history."

Mark Adams - Tip of the Iceberg: my three thousand mile journey around wild Alaska (917.9804 ADA 2018) In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman organized an unusual voyage to the wilds of Alaska: He converted a steamship into a "floating university," populated by some of America's best scientists and writers, including John Muir. Mark Adams set out to retrace the 1899 expedition using the state's ferry system, traveling three thousand miles, encountering dozens of unusual characters (and a couple of very hungry bears) and investigated how lessons learned in 1899 might relate to Alaska's struggles in adapting to climate change. sn 10/18

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