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Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
302 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ever since approximately 325 BC, the Arctic has been the backdrop for tales of triumph and disaster, of hardship and horrors endured by those who were drawn to the northern latitudes. For centuries the major world powers sponsored teams of explorers seeking trade routes as well as the chance to claim new territories. These commercial interests brought them into contact with natives, who at first saw white crews die in the forbidding landscape they...
Publisher
Janson Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (78 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Once labeled a "youth-at-risk,"Matt Rutherford risks it all in a death-defying attempt to be the first person to sail alone and nonstop around North and South America. Professional sailors called him crazy and declared the journey "a suicide mission."Braving the icebergs of the Arctic and the stormy seas of Cape Horn is no easy feat for even the most experienced sailor, much less a novice...Matt’s childhood was fraught with obstacles. Growing up...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The human story has always been one of perseverance--often against remarkable odds. The most astonishing survival tale of all might be that of 16th-century Dutch explorer William Barents and his crew of sixteen, who ventured farther north than any Europeans before and, on their third polar exploration, lost their ship off the frozen coast of Nova Zembla to unforgiving ice. The men would spend the next year fighting off ravenous polar bears, gnawing...
4) Archangel
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (78 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Literally a film like no other, this weird, wild and extraordinary photoplay is both melodrama and deadpan parody. With striking black and white cinematography and stylized set design, Guy Maddin tells a tale of obsessive love in the arctic Russian town of Archangel, where Bolsheviks, White Russians and German Huns converge during World War I. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival.** Winner of the Best Experimental Film Award...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A dramatic account of the ill-fated 19th-century naval expedition to the North Pole cites the contributions of German cartographer August Peterman, New York Herald owner James Gordon Bennett and famed naval officer George Washington De Long in the team's efforts to survive brutal environmental conditions.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 212 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go. James Cook Geographer, historical consultant and bestselling author Vanessa Collingridge searches for the man behind the legend as she traces his story in a series that is part biography, part travelogue and completely enthralling. A hero to some, a villain to others, this son of an English farm labourer described more of the globe than...
7) Pym: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
A comic journey into the ultimate land of whiteness by an unlikely band of African American adventurers. Jaynes is obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe's only novel ; when he discovers a crude slave narrative that seems to confirm the reality of Poe's fiction, he resolves to seek out Tsalal, imagining it to be a key to his personal salvation.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Scholars and laymen alike have long projected their fantasies onto the great expanse of the global North, whether it be as a frozen no-man's-land, an icy realm of marauding Vikings, or an unspoiled cradle of prehistoric human life. Bernd Brunner reconstructs the encounters of adventurers, colonists, and indigenous communities that led to the creation of a northern "cabinet of wonders" and imbued Scandinavia, Iceland, and the Arctic with a perennial...
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
580 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A whaler's daughter, Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve and fell in love with the cold and unforgiving terrain. In 1889, she sets out to become a scientist and explorer. Despite those who believe that a young woman has no place in this harsh world of men, her determination leads her back to northern Greenland at the head of a British expedition. Yearning for wider horizons, American geologist Jakob de Beyn joins a rival...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xvi, 441 p. : ill., maps, ports ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brandt tells the fascinating whole story of the search for the Northwest Passage, from its beginnings early in the age of exploration through its development into a British national obsession to the final sordid, terrible descent into scurvy, starvation, and cannibalism.
12) Olga: a novel
Author
Publisher
HarperVia
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First HarperVia edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Abandoned by her parents, Olga is raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century. Smart and precocious, endearing but uncompromising, she fights against the prejudices of the time to find her place in a world that sees women as second-best. When Olga falls in love with Herbert, a local aristocrat obsessed with gaining all the power, glory and greatness the modern age can provide, her life is irremediably changed....
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xiii, 211 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last one hundred years. That's a big story, and water is big business.Gleick exposes the true reasons we've turned to the bottle, from fear mongering by business interests and our own vanity to the breakdown of public systems and global inequities.
Author
Series
Wings of fire.Winglets volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
171 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fiercetooth, a NightWing obsessed with what could have -- and should have -- been. Deathbringer, desperate to prove himself as the next great NightWing assassin. Six-Claws, a loyal SandWing, who will soon find that loyalty comes with a price. Foeslayer the NightWing, a dragon in love turned kidnapper, and Prince Arctic of the IceWings, a runaway turned captive. In these four short stories, dig deeper into the world of Pyrrhia to discover what really...
Author
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 2014 media around the world buzzed with news that an archaeological team from Parks Canada had located and identified the wreck of the HMS Erebus, the flagship of Sir John Franklin's lost expedition to find the Northwest Passage. Finding Franklin outlines the larger story and the cast of detectives from every walk of life that led to the discovery, solving of one of the Arctic's greatest mysteries. In compelling and accessible prose, Russell Potter...
16) Captain Jack
Publisher
Lance Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Captain Jack is an irascible sea captain with a strong antipathy for authority, a fondness for the ladies and an obsession with his predecessork Captain Scoresby, who sailed from England to the Arctic in 1791. Jack is determined to retrace Scoresby's 1300 mile voyage and install a plaque in his hero's honor.
17) Polar night
Author
Publisher
Ink Smith Publishing
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Physical Desc
318 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Detective Danny Fitzpatrick leaves his hometown of Chicago and moves to Fairbanks, Alaska he wants nothing more than to escape the violence and heartbreak that left his life in pieces. Numbed by alcohol and the frozen temperatures of an Alaskan winter, Danny is content with a dead-end job investigating Fairbanks' cold cases. That all changes when a pretty blond woman goes missing on the winter solstice, and Danny stumbles upon some surprising...
Author
Publisher
Adlard Coles, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Bloomsbury edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Only one person has ever sailed vertically around the world--Adrian Flanagan. And he did it singlehanded. Sailing around the world horizontally is difficult enough, crossing thousands of miles of ocean only to get near land at the Capes battling treacherous currents. However, hundreds of sailors have nevertheless managed it. Flanagan became obsessed with the idea of sailing vertically around the world--over the poles--as a boy, before he even knew...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
413 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Brimming with sardonic humor, antic imagination and bravura storytelling skill, Richler's fifth novel (after Joshua Was Here ) is an interlocking account of the outrageously bold and daring eponymous protagonist, and of his would-be biographer, brilliant but alcoholic Moses Berger, obsessed with discovering the mysteries of Solomon's life and--maybe--his death. Perhaps inspired by Canada's Bronfman family, Richler creates the three Gursky brothers,...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92, 83, 6 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Twilight of the ice nymphs: A political prisoner returns to his home after several years of incarceration, falling desperately in love with a woman named Juliana on the boat trip home.
Archangel: A tale of obsessive love in the arctic town of Archangel, where a Canadian soldier, a Belgian pilot, and a Russian nurse, all suffering from amnesia, become involved in a love triangle in which each believes the others to be someone else.
The heart of the...
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