Category: Polar

November 4, 2024

The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides **** (of 4)

In 1776, Great Britain's King George sent his Navy to put down a rebellion fomented by British colonists on the eastern shore of North America. Simultaneously, he sponsored Captain James Cook to explore the unknown west coast of North America.

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August 20, 2017

In the Kingdom of Ice by Hamptom Sides **** (of 4)

At the end of the nineteenth century, because no one had ever been there, the virtual consensus among geographers was that the North Pole resided...

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March 30, 2014

Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff *** (of 4)

To ferry supplies, munitions, and personnel to the European front in WW II required skipping across allied airfields in Canada, Greenland, and Iceland. The major...

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June 18, 2010

No Man’s River, by Farley Mowat **** (of 4)

Fifty years after the events that brought him from the horrors of WW II to a small hut on the edge of Hudson’s Bay near...

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June 17, 2010

Grey Seas Under, by Farley Mowat ** (of 4)

The book is a biography of a tough iron-clad tugboat that makes its way from the coast of Newfoundland into the deadly winter storms of...

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June 17, 2010

Fifty Miles from Tomorrow by William L. Iggiagruk Hensley ** (of 4)

The life story of a native Inupiaq from the early 40s when native Alaskans were virtually untouched by Westerners, except missionaries, through statehood and the...

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June 17, 2010

The Endurance by Caroline Alexander ** (of 4)

About explorers trapped on the ice of Antarctica. Outstanding photos, OK read.

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