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Polar adventures make good reads, whether you're happily enjoying them in the warm comfort of your home, or gearing up to make an epic trek yourself. The books that deal with northern (arctic) travel have an N in front of the call number and are housed in the Alaska Collection. The books on southern (antarctic) travel are found in the regular non-fiction section. Click on a title to check for location and availability. You may place a request to have the book held for you at the library of your choice. If you would like more help, please ask at any Reference Desk, call Telephone Reference at 562-READ (7323), or email us through Ask-A-Librarian. |
| Pierre Berton The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909 N 910.091632 BERTON The golden age of arctic adventure, told by a gifted Canadian writer. |
| Apsley Cherry-Gerrard The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910-1913 919.9 CHERRY Originally published in 1922, this is an Antarctic classic about cold weather misery. |
| David E. Fisher Across the Top of the World: To the North Pole by Sled, Balloon, Airplane and Nuclear Icebreaker N 919.804 FISHER A passenger on a Soviet icebreaker bound for the Pole retells the classic adventure tales. |
| Peter Freuchen Vagrant Viking: My Life and Adventures N 910.4 FREUCHE The autobiography of a Danish explorer, adventurer, and flamboyant character who died in Anchorage in 1957. |
| Leonard F. Guttridge Icebound: The Jeannette Expedition's Quest for the North Pole N 910.091632 GUTTRID Trying to reach the North Pole via the Bering Strait, DeLong's ship was crushed and the crew struggled to reach shore in the Siberian Arctic. |
| David Hempleman-Adams Walking on Thin Ice: In Pursuit of the North Pole N 919.804 HEMPLEM A Brit and a Norwegian walk from northern Canada to the Pole. |
| Wally Herbert Across the Top of the World: The Last Great Journey on Earth N 919.803 HERBERT Point Barrow to Spitsbergen by dogteam. |
| Clive Holland Arctic Exploration and Development, c. 500 B.C. to 1915: an Encyclopedia AK-R 919.9804 HOLLAND Summaries of expeditions in chronological order, with indexes for expedition members, ships, and places. |
| Roland Huntford The Last Place on Earth 919.88904 HUNTFOR The story of Scott and Amundsen's race to the South Pole. This dramatic saga was also made into an exciting PBS series, available on video. |
| Alfred Lansing Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage 919.9 LANSING His ship sinking, Shackleton led his entire party to safety on an Antarctic island and then proceeded by small boat hundreds of miles to summon rescuers. |
| Knud Rasmussen Across Arctic America: Narrative of the Fifth Thule Expedition N 919.8 RASMUSS The account of the author's trek by dog sled from Greenland to Siberia in the 1920s. |
| Vilhjalmur Stefansson The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions N 919.8 STEFANS Classic account of exploration and living off the land. |
| Will Steger with
Paul Schurke North to the Pole N 910.091632 STEGER A first-person account of the 1986 dogsled expedition to the North Pole, the first to reach the North Pole without resupply since Robert E. Peary in 1909. |
| Alden Todd Abandoned: The Story of the Greely Arctic Expedition, 1881-1884 N 919.8 TODD Of twenty-five men on this scientific expedition to eastern Canada, only six survived. |
| Clint Willis, editor Ice: Stories of Survival from Polar Exploration N 191.8 ICE Fifteen excerpts from classic polar literature. |
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