Polar Regions

It's hardly a surprise to discover that twenty-two year old Sam Branson has a love of adventure and a real concern about our future in a world threatened by rapid climate change. Journeying into the heart of the Arctic wilderness with his father and a film crew, Sam explores the changing landscape a... More

It was the best Christmas gift two children could get— an expedition to Antarctica, the mysterious White Continent!When Suravi and Rishi Thomas got a place on a Chilean navy ship sailing to Antarctica, they couldn’t have imagined the stormy time that lay ahead. Four-storey-high wave... More

"Absorbing...artfully narrat[es] a possible course of events in the expedition's demise, based on the one official note and bits of debris (including evidence of cannibalism) found by searchers sent to look for Franklin in the 1850s. Adventure readers will flock to this fine regaling of the enduring... More

Shackleton's own thrilling account of his first Antarctic expedition to reach the South Pole ties in with a nationwide Shackleton museum exhibition and forthcoming major motion picture. of illustrations & photos.Shackleton's own thrilling account of his first Antarctic expedition and astonishing mar... More

Antarctica is a major geographical region of our world and an important part of the global ecosystem. Including a continent larger than Australia and an ocean broader than the Atlantic, it makes up one-eighth of the World's surface. Knowledge gained by early explorers and more recently by scientists... More

Lonely Planet's series of country travel guides provides upfront color highlights, "top ten" lists, easy-to-use maps with cross referencing to text, and more. "Down-to-earth, accurate information for every budget, enthusiastically written!"--"Travel & Leisure."Ready for the adventure of a lifetime? ... More

The only guide to the fascinating frontier surrounding the North Pole. This book is full of practical advice for the intrepid explorer and comprehensive background reading for the armchair traveller.-- full-colour nature guide-- special chapters written by experts on Arctic exploration, scientific r... More

Here in an easy-to-use format is the first guide to the nearly 1,300 species of non-passerine South American birds. It complements Robert Ridgly and Guy Tudor's large reference volumes on the passerines (1,800 species), which will soon be available in a single-volume field guide format. One of thing... More

A hundred years ago, Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out for the South Pole. They never made it. Within sight of land, the ship ran into dangerous waters filled with chunks of ice. Then the sea froze around them! There was no hope of rescue. Could Shackleton find a way to save himself and his men... More