It should be noted here that this is not a book about polar exploration, and those looking for the history of Peary and Cook’s northern forays, as well as the reasons why both are now presumed ...

In a new graphic novel, cartoonist Luke Healy follows three story lines into the frozen North. The history of polar exploration is filled with tales of folly and heroism, in almost equal measure ...

Only with more exploration of the worlds under Earth’s ice will we know how life got there.” Some of what lives there may have been isolated for millions of years.

TERRA NOVA. By Henriette Lazaridis. Pegasus Books. 304 pages. $25.95. Hunger takes many forms. While Viola becomes fascinated with London’s suffragette hunger strikers, her husband, Edward, and ...

March 2021 Books of the Month A Doomed Arctic Expedition, Number-Free Math and Other New Books to Read These five January releases may have been lost in the news cycle January 11, 2021 ...

Americans love a good scammer. Frederick Cook, polar explorer and would-be oil tycoon, is the perfect fit for our age — 83 years after his death.

Rae was indeed an impressive figure. Having dreamed of exploration since boyhood, he took a job with the Hudson's Bay Company in 1833, at the age of 19, on a ship headed for the Arctic.

A POLAR AFFAIR Antarctica’s Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins By Lloyd Spencer Davis Illustrated. 368 pp. Pegasus Books. $29.95.