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North Pole, South Pole : a guide to the ecology and resources of the Arctic and Antarctic
Published: PRION, 1990Description: 216 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 30 cm.Book -
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Mineral resources of the North Pole Ridge Wilderness Study Area, Sherman and Gilliam Counties, Oregon
Published: U.S. G.P.O. ; For sale by the Books and Open-File Reports Section, U.S. Geological Survey, 1988Subjects: “…Mines and mineral resources Oregon North Pole Ridge Wilderness.…”Description: v, 18 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Ninety degrees North : the quest for the North Pole 1st American ed.
Published: Grove Press, 2001Subjects: “…North Pole Discovery and exploration.…”Description: xxi, 470 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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Locked in ice : Nansen's daring quest for the North Pole First edition.
Published: Henry Holt and Company, 2019Contents: “…pt. 1: Fridtjof Nansen and his dream 1861-1893 -- Young skier -- The Viking and first Arctic ice -- Bergen and a daring trek over the mountains -- Greenland -- Eva -- Nansen sets his sights on the North Pole -- The plan: follow the Jeannette -- Building an ice ship -- A crew of twelve -- pt. 2: The journey North -- June 24, 1893--March 14, 1894 -- Leaving home -- The Fram locked in ice -- Life aboard the Fram: the adventure and monotony of being stuck in ice -- Science aboard -- Decision to leave the ship -- pt. 3: Outfitting for a two-man dash -- February 1895 -- Preparations -- Tent -- Clothing -- Double sleeping bag -- Sleds, kayaks, and guns -- Cook kit and medicine -- Instruments for navigation -- pt. 4: Onto the ice -- March 14--April 6, 1895 -- Each mile a new record -- The cold -- First dog to die -- The ice, the routine, the dogs -- Cracking ice and opening leads -- Desperate work -- Farthest North -- pt. 5: Turning South -- April 8--May 31, 1895 -- Calculations -- Thin ice and burning the third sled -- Birthday, narwhals, and bear tracks -- The birds come back -- pt. 6: To the kayaks -- June 1--July 22, 1895 -- Mending the kayaks -- Water sky, the color of hope -- One dog left for Nansen, two for Johansen -- Salvation is a seal -- Seal-blood pancakes and tent on fire -- First bear -- Departing homesick camp -- pt. 7: Land at last -- July 25--August 15, 1895 -- "We shall reach it today!" …”Description: xix, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Fatal north : adventure and survival aboard USS Polaris, the first U.S. expedition to the North Pole
Published: New American Library, 2001Description: viii, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, 23 cm.Book -
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The Polar Express Twentieth anniversary ed.
Published: Houghton Mifflin, 2005Subjects: “…North Pole Juvenile fiction.…”Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 30 cm.
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A brief discourse of a passage by the North-pole to Japan, China, &c. Pleaded by three experiments, and answers to all objections ... against a passage that way
Published: J. Moxon, 1674Description: 1 leaf, 6 pages : frontispiece (map.) ; 21 cm.Microfilm Book -
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The big nail; the story of the Cook-Peary feud
Published: John Day Co., 1970Subjects:Description: xi, 368 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm.Book -
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The Polar Express
Published: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985Subjects: Sample textDescription: 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 30 cm.
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Cook & Peary : the polar controversy, resolved 1st ed.
Published: Stackpole Books, 1997Subjects:Description: xviii, 1133 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.Book -
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Summary observations and facts collected from late and authentic accounts of Russian and other navigators to show the practicability and good prospect of success in enterprises to discover a northern passage for vessels by sea, between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, or nearly to approach the North Pole
Published: J. Nourse, 1776Description: 1 leaf, 29 pages ; 26 cm.Microfilm Book -
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Analytical results and sample locality map of stream-sediment, heavy-mineral-concentrate, rock samples from the North Pole Ridge (OR-005-008), Thirtymile (OR-005-001), and Lower John Day (OR-005-006) wilderness study areas, Sherman and Gilliam counties, Oregon
Published: U.S. Geological Survey : [Books and Open-File Reports Section, distributor], 1989Description: 34 leaves : illustrations, map ; 28 cm.Microfilm Book -
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The best ten-minute plays, 2022
Published: Smith and Kraus Publishers, 2022Contents:Description: xii, 516 pages ; 21 cm.Book -
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To the edges of the Earth : 1909, the race for the three poles, and the climax of the age of exploration First edition.
Published: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018Contents: “…Preface: The wonderful year 1909 -- The aristocracy of adventure, circa 1909 -- The audacity of adventure, circa 1909 -- The allure of adventure, circa 1909 -- The great game -- The Peary way -- Beyond the screaming sixties -- The savage North -- Poles apart -- On top of the world -- The third pole -- Returnings -- The last biscuit.…”Description: xx, 329 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, charts ; 24 cm.
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We were there on the Nautilus [Book Club ed.].
Published: Grosset & Dunlap, 1961Description: 178 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.Book -
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Hell on ice; the saga of the "Jeannette"
Published: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938Description: x pages, 1 leaf, 421 pages : 2 illustrations (including map) ; 22 cm.Book -
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Time ghost 1st U.S. ed.
Published: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1995Description: 171 pages ; 23 cm.Book -
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Works of Jules Verne
Published: V. Parke and Company, 1911Contents: “…Adventures of Captain Hatteras: The English at the North pole.--v. 3. Adventures of Captain Hatteras: The desert of ice. …”Description: 15 volumes : frontispieces (part color) illustrations (including map) plates (part color) portraits ; 24 cm volumes7.
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Into the unknown : how great explorers found their way by land, sea, and air 1st U.S. ed.
Published: Candlewick Press, 2011Contents: “…Fourteen amazing journeys: 340 BC Pytheas the Greek sails to the Arctic Circle -- AD 1003 Leif Eriksson reaches the coast of America -- 1271-1274 Marco Polo rides the Silk Road to China -- 1405-1407 Admiral Zheng He crosses the Indian Ocean -- 1492 Christopher Columbus sails to the Caribbean -- 1519-1522 Ferdinand Magellan's fleet circumnavigates the world -- 1768-1771 Captain Cook maps the Pacific Ocean -- 1858-1864 David Livingstone explores the Zambezi River -- 1895 Mary Kingsley travels alone in West Africa -- 1928 Umberto Nobile flies over the North Pole -- 1932 Auguste Piccard ascends into the stratosphere -- 1960 Jacques Piccard dives to the Challenger Deep -- 1953 Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay climb Everest -- 1969 Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin land on the moon.…”Description: 85 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm.
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The ice at the end of the world : an epic journey into Greenland's buried past and our perilous future First edition.
Published: Random House, 2019Description: xxiii, 418 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.Book