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    The ends of the earth : an anthology of the finest writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic.
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    New York : Bloomsbury USA : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007.
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  • Polar regions.
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  • Arctic regions -- Literary collections.
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  • Arctic regions.
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  • Antarctica.
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  • Antarctica -- Literary collections.
  • ISBN: 
    1596914432
    9781596914438
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    2 v. in 1 : maps ; 25 cm.
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    1st U.S. ed.
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    The Arctic / edited by Elizabeth Kolbert -- The Antarctic / edited by Francis Spufford.
    v. 1. The Arctic. The extreme misery of the whole party / John Franklin -- The return of light / Elisha Kent Kane -- Murder in the Arctic? / Chauncey Loomis -- See the Esquimaux / Andrea Barrett -- Mount Hatteras / Jules Verne -- The winter night / Fridtjof Nansen -- Andrée's second diary / Salomon August Andrée -- We reach the Pole / Robert Peary -- Kasiagsak, the great liar / Hinrich Rink -- Songs of the Inuit / Knud Rasmussen -- The Garden of Eden / Rockwell Kent -- Kabloona / Gontran de Poncins -- A Greenland Christmas / Tété-Michel Kpomassie -- In a far country / Jack London -- Land ho! / Valerian Albanov -- Icelandic pioneer / Halldór Laxness -- The land, breathing / Barry Lopez -- Aliberti's ride / Gretel Ehrlich -- Unexpected poisons / Marla Cone -- Shishmaref, Alaska / Elizabeth Kolbert.
    v. 2. The Antarctic. Into the night / Frederick A. Cook -- Landfall / Louis Bernacchi -- Sledge dogs and Englishmen / Edward Wilson -- Farthest south / Ernest Shackleton -- Lt. Shirase's calling card / Nobu Shirase -- The winter journey / Apsley Cherry-Garrard -- Topsy-turvy / Roald Amundsen -- Tragedy all along the line / Robert Falcon Scott -- Scott dies / Francis Spufford -- Mawson lives / Douglas Mawson -- The blow / Richard Byrd -- The blasphemous city / H.P. Lovecraft -- Sea daddy, Stormalong John and Minute maid / John Langone -- White lanterns / Diane Ackerman -- Particles / Bill Green -- Cabin 532 / Jenny Diski -- Hey, woo / Sara Wheeler -- Blue collar / Nicholas Johnson -- In the footsteps of Amundsen, 2016 / Kim Stanley Robinson.
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    A literary anthology explores the natural wonders of the frozen landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic in a compilation of first-person narratives, cultural histories, science and nature writing, and fiction.
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    Waikiki-Kapahulu Public LibraryAdult Nonfiction809.93329 EnChecked InAdd Copy to MyList


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