Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot
By: Ken McGoogan
3.46
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
John Rae's accomplishments, surpassing all nineteenth-century Arctic explorers, were worthy of hono…
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1. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
By: Hampton Sides
4.27
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
On July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from San… read more
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"We live in weary suspense," DeLong wrote. "Wintering in the pack may be a thrilling thing to read about alongside a warm fire, but the actual thing is sufficient to make any man prematurely old."-Hampton Sides, In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
"When De Long arrived in California with Emma that May, he went straight down to the yard and feasted his eyes upon his new ship. He was smitten by the transformation that had taken place during his a…"-Hampton Sides, In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
2. Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition
By: Margaret Atwood , Owen Beattie , John Geiger
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The revised text of "Frozen in Time" expands on the history of nineteenth century British Arctic ex… read more
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3. A History of Canada in Ten Maps: Epic Stories of Charting a Mysterious Land
By: Adam Shoalts
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The sweeping, epic story of the mysterious land that came to be called "Canada" like it's never bee… read more
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4. Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
By: Stephen R. Bown
4.11
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or … read more
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5. Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West
By: D'Arcy Jenish
3.32
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Epic Wanderer, the first full-length biography of mapmaker David Thompson (1770-1857), is set in th… read more
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6. Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot
By: Ken McGoogan
3.46
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
John Rae's accomplishments, surpassing all nineteenth-century Arctic explorers, were worthy of hono… read more
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7. Madhouse at the End of the Earth
By: Julian Sancton
4.27
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expeditio… read more
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"Among the greatest threats future travelers to Mars are likely to face is an interplanetary version of winter over-syndrome. The unknown icescapes around the earth poles, particularly Antarctica, see…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"Cook referred to the symptoms collectively as polar anemia. Researchers today use the term winter over-syndrome. But it's essentially the same thing. A prevailing theory suggests it's a form of hypot…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"But in emphasizing the likelihood of a connection between winter over-syndrome and what is now known as seasonal effective disorder, a variation in mood that correlates with a dwindling of daylight h…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"Note: Dr. Lawrence Polinkis who analyzed clinical data from American men and women at Antarctica's Mcmurdo station Amundsen Scott's South Pole station posits specifically that the memory loss and oth…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
8. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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9. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
10. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
11. Study for Obedience
By: Sarah Bernstein
3.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more
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"I try always to be good."-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience
12. Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic
By: Adam Shoalts
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
National bestseller A thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greate… read more
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13. Erebus: The Story of a Ship
By: Michael Palin
4.29
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
In the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval … read more
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14. The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire
By: Stephen R. Bown
4.14
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins. The story of the Hudson's Bay C… read more
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15. Shackleton: A Biography
By: Ranulph Fiennes
4.32
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Discover the story Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition through the words of the worl… read more
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16. Permanent Astonishment
By: Tomson Highway
4.20
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada's most ac… read more
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17. Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
By: Buddy Levy
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Based on the author's exhaustive research, the incredible true story of the Greely Expedition, one … read more
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18. Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic
By: Adam Shoalts
4.32
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastne… read more
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19. Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson
By: Mark Bourrie
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Murderer. Salesman. Pirate. Adventurer. Cannibal. Co-founder of the Hudson's Bay Company. Known … read more
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20. Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony
By: David C. Woodman
4.26
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
David Woodman's classic reconstruction of the mysterious events surrounding the tragic Franklin exp… read more
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21. May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition
By: Russell A. Potter
4.61
Format: 440 pages, Hardcover
"May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth" is a privileged glimpse into the private correspondence of the … read more
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