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"Författaren och läkaren Bea Uusma har genom egen forskning och med ett starkt personligt engagemang kastat nytt ljus över denna tragiska polarexpedition."Ur motiveringen till …

Mahtavaa ryskettä! Monitoimimurtajan ruorissa oleva perämies pujottelee umpijään läpi edullisinta reittiä etsien, ahtojäävallien, suurten lohkareiden ja jäävuorien välissä. Välillä …

Vinnare av Augustpriset 2013 i kategorin fackböcker!Juli 1897. Ingenjör Andrées expedition ger sig iväg i en vätgasballong med riktning Nordpolen. En djärv idé, chanslös från …

Vuonna 2008 Reissu Petet Vuorenmaa ja Mäkelä kulkivat kolmen kuukauden aikana 2 500 kilometrin matkan halki Grönlannin jäätikön etelästä pohjoiseen. Seikkailuntäyteisestä matkasta …

'Utterly extraordinary ...the starkest book I've read on the impacts of accelerating climate change for a very long time ...if we're not listening to the likes of Peter Wadhams, …

Suomen arktinen klubi on jo yli kolmenkymmenen vuoden ajan kerännyt yhteen suomalaisia arktisten alueiden kulkijoita ja tutkijoita. Ensimmäinen Grönlannin jäätikölle suuntautunut …

Despite Holland's rich history as a major maritime power, by the time this work first appeared in 1876 the Dutch had long abandoned their exploration of the Arctic Circle. In this …

The Nordic Atlantic area has seen remarkable examples of social formations in areas that many would perceive as too remote to allow the construction of functioning communities. But …

Between 1750 and 1920 over 15,000 people visited Antarctica. Yet, despite such a large number the historiography has ignored all but a handful of celebrated explorers. Maddison …

There have been many books about Antarctica in the past, but all have focused on only one aspect of the continent - its science, its wildlife, the heroic age of exploration, …

Sir John Ross (1777-1856), the distinguished British naval officer and Arctic explorer, undertook three great voyages to the Arctic regions; accounts of his first and his second …

The fossil history of plant life in Antarctica is central to our understanding of the evolution of vegetation through geological time and also plays a key role in reconstructing …

Pink Ice is an exciting and engaging account of Britain and its imperial possessions in Antarctica and the South Atlantic. It demonstrates how British officials and government …

The 1839-43 Antarctic expedition was primarily a scientific voyage. James Clark Ross, a member of the expedition that had located the Magnetic North Pole in 1831, was the natural …

Bill Cassidy has led meteorite recovery expeditions in the Antarctic for many years. His searches have resulted in the collection of thousands of meteorite specimens from the ice. …

Antarctica is the coldest and driest continent on Earth - a place for adventure and a key area for global science. Research conducted there has received increasing international …

Introducing us to the vast Island of Svalbard, east of Greenland in the Arctic Circle - a genuine wilderness in Europe, this guidebook offers useful information on clothing, …

From a human viewpoint, the cold waters of deep sea and polar marine regions present an inhospitable and harsh environment for life. The study of organisms which have exploited …

Antarctica is a place of extremes that remains largely unknown and infinitely fascinating. Stuart Klipper has travelled to the Antarctic six times in twenty years to photograph an …