Polarområdena

Norsk polarhistorie handler om mer enn Fridtjof Nansen og Roald Amundsen. Den handler om mer enn en liten eksklusiv gruppe helter og om mer enn spektakulære ekspedisjoner. Denne …

Fired up by the accounts of exploring parties in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writers of the weird and supernatural began to construct a literary Arctic and …

Polar Expeditions employs structural ritualization theory to show how rituals enriched the lives of crewmembers on 19 polar expeditions over a 100-year period. J. David Knottnerus …

Isens menn under fremmed flagg tegner et realistisk og usentimentalt bilde av nordmenns deltakelse i utenlandske ekspedisjoner til Arktis og Antarktis. Noen spilte anonyme roller, …

'Life is too short to waste time on second-class ambitions. Go for the big ones.' Now in his late seventies, Sir Ranulph Fiennes looks back on a lifetime of exploration, and …

Climate change is causing Arctic ice to melt quicker than it can be replaced. But what happens when there is less Arctic ice? Discover what Arctic sea ice is and why it is …

Explore the starkness of the seasons at the earth's upper latitudes, from snow deserts to a blooming tundra, polar lights to white nights.  Ice-filled, mostly uninhabited, …

This stunning and powerfully relevant book tells the history of Antarctica through 100 varied and fascinating objects drawn from collections around the world. Retracing the history …

People have perennially projected their fantasies onto the North as a frozen no-man’s-land full of marauding Vikings or as the unspoiled landscape of a purer, more elemental form …