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Arctic and Antarctic Exploration

Alexander, Caroline. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition. Random House, 1998. Exciting narrative of Shackleton's near-fatal odyssey, with photographs.

Berton, Pierre. Arctic Grail: The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909. Viking, Lyons, 1988. 2000. Classic account of Arctic explorers and exploration during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Bryce, Robert M. Cook and Peary: The Polar Controversy, Resolved. Stackpole, 1997. Who reached the North Pole first? This work studiously examines the rival claims.

Calvert, Patricia. Robert E. Peary: To the Top of the World. Marshall Cavendish, 2001. For younger readers; grades 5 to 8.

Fleming, Fergus. Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole. Grove, 2002. Tells of the major expeditions sent to the North Pole from 1845 to 1969.

Gurney, Alan. Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699-1839. Norton, Penguin, 1997. 1998. Maritime adventures to the south polar lands and how captains and crews endured.

Huntford, Roland. The Last Place on Earth. Modern Library, 1999. The race to reach the South Pole, first published in 1979 as Scott and Amundsen.

Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody. Ice Story: Shackleton's Lost Expedition. Houghton, 1999. For younger readers, grades 4 to 8.

Ross, M. J. Polar Pioneers: John Ross and James Clark Ross. McGill-Queens University Press, 1994. Biography of two 19th-century British naval officers and their search for the Northwest Passage.

Vaughn, Norman D. With Byrd at the Bottom of the World. Stackpole, 1990. An account by a dog handler on Byrd's expedition from 1928 to 1930.

Arctic life

Byles, Monica. Life in the Polar Lands. World Book, 1997. A beautifully illustrated introduction to all forms of polar life. For middle-school readers.

Houston, James A. Confessions of an Igloo Dweller. Houghton Mifflin, 1996. Memoir of a Canadian artist who lived for 14 years among the Inuit people of northern Canada.

Leonard, Linda Schierse. Creation's Heartbeat: Following the Reindeer Spirit. Bantam, 1995. An inspiring spiritual encounter with the reindeer and the peoples of the north who depend on them.

Norman, Howard A. Northern Tales: Stories from the Native Peoples of the Artic and Subarctic Regions. Pantheon, 1998. An anthology of stories from Greenland, Canada, Russia, and Alaska that capture everyday life in the Arctic.

Pielou, E. C. A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic. University of Chicago Press, 1994. Written for naturalists and laypeople.

Slezkine, Yuri. Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North. Cornell University Press, 1994. The story of the struggle of Russia's northern aboriginal population.

Woodworth, Lynn. Antarctica and the Arctic: The Complete Encyclopedia. Firefly, 2001. A thorough and authoritative guide to the world's two polar continents.

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