Today the Arctic is still a site of peril and promise. A new race to the North Pole is under way, as politicians dream of ...

But for an understanding of 19th-century Arctic exploration, her book is an important contribution. Kaalund is interested in what travel narratives of Arctic voyages tell us about how knowledge of ...

(Credit: National Archives and Records Administration) I love books. Likewise ... detailed research and puts Arctic exploration in the context of its time, offering insights on the far north ...

Highlights the role of the Indigenous peoples in Arctic exploration. The Franklin search season is almost ... Gross will resume his search any day now. Books about Franklin and his doomed expedition, ...

While his books have covered a wide variety of topics ... who bucked the male-dominated world of Arctic exploration after her husband disappeared in 1845 and she managed to turn him into a heroic ...

"He did not show any signs of joy,” Burt McConnell wrote of his first sighting of a human on the shore of Wrangel Island, north of Siberia, far above the Arctic Circle. McConnell stood aboard ...

a prestigious collection of 79 antiquarian books on colonial narratives of exploration and conquest in the Pacific Ocean and the Arctic. A generous donation from an SFU alumnus SFU alumnus and donor ...

Arctic exploration, or the future of icebreaking, this video gives you an inside look at how the newest nuclear icebreaker will change the way we explore the ice-covered waters of the North.

John Murray has acquired a “gripping Arctic exploration tale of horror and endurance” by Giles Milton. Joe Zigmond, publishing director at John Murray and Basic Books, imprints of John Murray ...

The failed expedition was one of the grimmest chapters in the history of Arctic exploration ... barrel organs and libraries with some 2,900 books. Two dogs and a monkey kept the men company ...