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The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
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To the Bright Edge of the World
by Eowyn Ivey
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by Ian McGuire
Published Mar 2017
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by Abby Geni
Published Jan 2017
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by Naomi J. Williams
Published Dec 2016
Read ReviewsBy turns elegiac, profound, and comic, Landfalls reinvents the maritime adventure novel for the twenty-first century.
by Robert Kurson
Published Mar 2016
Read ReviewsFast-paced and filled with suspense, fascinating characters, history, and adventure, Pirate Hunters is an unputdownable story that goes deep to discover truths and souls long believed lost.
by Owen Matthews
Published Jul 2015
Read ReviewsFrom the glittering court of Catherine the Great to the wilds of the New World, Matthews conjures a brilliantly original portrait of one of Russia's most eccentric Empire-builders.
by Olivier Truc
Published Nov 2014
Read ReviewsTomorrow, the sun will rise for the first time in 40 days. Thirty minutes of daylight will herald the end of the polar night. But in the last hours of darkness, a precious artifact is stolen . . .
by Dan Simmons
Published Dec 2007
Read ReviewsThe men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph; part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, they set out in the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage. Years later, trapped in a landscape of encroaching ice and darkness, endlessly cold, and with diminishing rations, 126 men fight to survive as an ...
by Leonard Guttridge
Published Nov 2000
Read ReviewsA nonfiction narrative that reads like a novel-- a raw, vivid, harrowing adventure, brilliantly told.
by Caroline Alexander
Published Nov 1998
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