Dutton, February 2025. Hardcover. A new copy. **Shortlisted for the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize** The bestselling author of Your Inner Fish takes readers on an epic adventure to the North and South Poles to reveal the secrets locked in the ice about life, the cosmos, and our.....
Doubleday, January 1998. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. By any account, the impenetrable barrier of sea ice that blocked the Brendan's Isle halfway up the Labrador Coast should not have been there in July, in what was one of the hottest summers on record.....
Firefly Books, October 2004. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Discover and explore worlds containing unexpected life. As some scientists search for life on the frozen planet of Mars, others are discovering life in unexpected places here on Earth. Frozen Oceans follows the expeditions of.....
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2007. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. From astronomer Edmond Halley's 1699 voyage in the Paramore to sealer John Balleny's 1839 excursion in the "Eliza Scott, Below the Convergence" tells the story of British, American, and Russian expeditions to Antarctica-the fabled Terra Australis Incognita.....
Broadcast Music Inc., 1955. Trade Paperback. Peter Freuchen ((1886-1957) was a Danish explorer, author and anthrpologist notable for his role in Arctic explorations, namely the Thule Expeditions. 1. Typed book review by Peter Freuchen, hand-corrected, 4 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches; 2. Transcript typed for Continuity from Broadcast Muisc Inc.....
U.S. Government, 1873. First Edition. Map. Map, 24.6 x 18 inches, inside borders; sheet size, 26 x 19.1 inches. Chart shows the daily routes of the ships involved in searching for the survivors of the 'Polaris,' captained by Charles Francis Hall, in an attempt to reach the North Pole. In.....