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Summary: "Offers readers a captivating look into the races between different groups of people to reach the North and South Poles first. Learn about how these explorers handled the extreme weather and why they risked their lives to accomplish their goal"-- www.childsworld.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 919.8 REAWeiss-Tuider, Katharina
Summary: "For kids 8 to 13, join the largest Arctic expedition ever undertaken--and discover the secrets hidden deep in the ice that reveal how one of the world's crucial ecosystems is changing. The Arctic is changing--fast. The once-frozen landscape is melting before our eyes, and the effects can be felt around the world. But the Arctic is also the region we know the least about. Thick ice, extreme...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.9163 WEIMikkelsen, Ejnar
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.82 MIKWilkinson, Alec
Summary: Documents the dramatic 1897 flight of a visionary Swedish explorer who attempted to discover the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon, describing the formidable environmental conditions that challenged his efforts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 WilkinsonOswalt, Wendell H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 OSWWatson, Paul
Summary: Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845--whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice--with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the incredible discovery of the flagship's wreck in 2014. Paul Watson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was on the icebreaker that led the discovery expedition, tells a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Company Inc 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 998 WATSummary: Documents a Danish expedition by a team of scientists to hitherto unexplored fjords in northeast Greenland, which, due to the seasonal melting of glacial ice due to global warming, are now accessible for a few weeks a year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EXP1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EXP
Summary: Sought by explorers for centuries and hailed as the one of the most beautiful waterways in the world, The Northwest Passage tells a dramatic story of courage, discovery and adventure. From the breath-taking landscapes of the Arctic to the unforgettable exporters that risked everything to accomplish the un-thinkable, this 6-Part documentary highlights the missions and mysteries of the world s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Mill Creek Entertainment 2014
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC NORGolkar, Golriz
Summary: "In 1881, U.S. Army Lieutenant Adolphus Greely and his crew set sail for the Arctic. Their mission was to collect scientific data on the polar climate. They also had a second, secret goal: to achieve Farthest North, the record for highest latitude reached by explorers. But when resupply ships failed to arrive two years in a row, the team's dreams of glory turned into a nightmarish fight for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Library is published by Capstone Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 919.804 GOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J919.804 GOLPhillips, Katrina M.
Summary: "In 1921, Inupait seamstress Ada Blackjack joined a a group of four white men who wanted to establish a trading post on Wrangel Island in the freezing Arctic Ocean. The explorers were stranded on the island when their return ship was forced to turn back due to ice. Facing harsh conditions and dwindling food supplies, the men died one by one, but Ada remained. Find out how she alone managed to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.92 PHICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC PHIAlʹbanov, Valerian Ivanovich.
Summary: A Russian navigator describes an ill-fated 1912 Arctic expedition aboard the Saint Anna, and his grueling cross-country journey to get help in 1914.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.804 ALBStine, Megan
Summary: "It might seem lonely at the top of the world, but the North Pole is teeming with life! Polar bears, walruses, and Arctic seals make their home on sea ice that can be nine feet thick, while the Inuit and other Indigenous peoples continue their traditions and means for survival in this harsh climate. Along with the early twentieth-century story of Robert Peary's egomaniacal quest to reach the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 919.8 STICussler, Clive
Summary: 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. Soon the Fargos find themselves on the run through jungles, away from those with a personal motivation for stopping them. At the end of the road...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CUSParry, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 919.804 PARParry, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.804 PARSides, Hampton
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 SIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 SIDPiesing, Mark
Summary: "The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.8 PIESummary: While dreams of a passage proved illusory, Captain James Cook's journey produced some of the finest charts, collections, and anthropological observations of his career. It also helped establish British relations with Russia and opened the door to the hugely influential maritime fur trade. This collection of essays from an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars - including former...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Washington Press 2015
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 910 BARSummary: Tells the saga of the ill-fated 1928 Arctic expedition headed by Italian Unberto Nobile. After the crash of their dirigible, Italia, the survivors huddle in their makeshift red canvas dwelling, desperately sending out S.O.S. signals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REDLevy, Buddy
Summary: "The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world's greatest living ice navigator. The expedition's visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.804 LEVWelky, David
Summary: In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, hundreds of miles from another human being, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a line of mysterious peaks looming in the distance. He called this unexplored realm “Crocker Land.” Scientists and explorers agreed that the world-famous explorer had discovered a new continent rising from the frozen Arctic Ocean. Several...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 WELTroubetzkoy, Alexis S.
Summary: Ever since approximately 325 BC, the Arctic has been the backdrop for tales of triumph and disaster, of hardship and horrors endured by those who were drawn to the northern latitudes. For centuries the major world powers sponsored teams of explorers seeking trade routes as well as the chance to claim new territories. These commercial interests brought them into contact with natives, who at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.19 TROWallace, Sandra Neil
Summary: Recounts George W. De Long's expedition to reach the North Pole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910 WALHameister, Jade
Summary: Polar Explorer is an inspiring and empowering story by sixteen-year-old Jade Hameister, chronicling her feat of being the youngest person to complete the Polar Hat Trick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2019