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 | Iceland: Land of the Sagas
A pictorial classic on one of the last "undiscovered" countries is offered by David Roberts and Jon Krakauer, author of "Into Thin Air". While touring and photographing a landscape of remarkable variety, the authors survive numerous adventures and disco...
Manufacturer: Villard
| $13.57 - $21.95
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 | The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future
Richard Alley, one of the world's leading climate researchers, tells the fascinating history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland. In the 1990s he and his colleagues made headlines with...
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
| $9.99
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 | The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say...
Manufacturer: Harcourt
| $6.95
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 | The First Crossing of Greenland
Across Greenland on Skis - an intriguing account of the first successful crossing of Greenland. Though it's been noted that Peary wanted to be the first to cross Greenland, Nansen beat him to it. As early as 1882, Nansen began to consider plans fo...
Manufacturer: University Press of the Pacific
| $20.30 - $29.95
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 | The Sledge Patrol: A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Victory
In 1943, a group of brave Danish and Norwegian hunters carried out one of the most dramatic operations of World War II. Using dogsleds to patrol a stark 500-mile stretch of the Greenland coast, their wartime mission was to guard against Nazi interlop...
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
| $5.49
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 | Iceland Travel Pack (Globetrotter Travel Packs)
The highly successful Globetrotter Travel series, which includes guides, maps, and atlases, presently covers more than eighty destinations worldwide. The packs are an excellent value, including both a guidebook and a soft cover of the fold-out Glob...
Manufacturer: Globetrotter
| $5.35
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| An African in Greenland (Ulverscroft Large Print Series)
A chance encounter with a picture book about Greenland inspires the young Tete-Michel Kpomassie to embark on a life-changing journey that would last ten years. Leaving his native Togo, he travels to the Ivory Coast, Senegal, Mauritania, Paris, and Copen...
Manufacturer: Ulverscroft Large Print
| $12.50
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 | Ultima Thule: Explorers and Natives in the Polar North
Based on excerpts from the explorers' logs counterbalanced by Inuit testimony, this text is the story of European and American exploration in the polar north. It aims to bring to life both sides of the clash that arose when white men arrived in the Far ...
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