Journal Entry: The Winter Pond
How my fish are doing in their new greenhouse home as the thermometer reads 10 and below. In the Eastern US, the weather has been strange. First warmer than normal temperatures, then an arctic cold snap. The thermometer has been reading 12, 7 and ... [... more]
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Alison Anderson
In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prove even more disastrous. In search of new Arctic ... [... more]
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Lawrence Millman
A Classic Arctic Survival Story and a Remarkable Account of Companionship in the Face of Adversity TWO AGAINST THE ICE is a classic tale of survival by an unheralded but important figure in the history of Arctic exploration. First published in ... [... more]
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Mountie in Mukluks: The Arctic Adventures of Bill White
 THE WAY IT WAS: LIFE IN THE OLD NORTH: I have a whole passel of personal connections with this book. Not only did I once live on the arctic coast for several years, I've fished the mouth of the river that almost took Bill's life. I was still living in [... more]
CDN$34.95
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Arctic Alphabet: Exploring the North From A to Z
Interested in the Arctic?: This is not your typical alphabet book. Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a natural phenomenon of the Arctic and has three or four paragraphs of text about that subject. The facts in the text are interesting. Did [... more]
CDN$19.95
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A is for Arctic: Natural Wonders of a Polar World
Spectacled Eider + Cold weather animals = A decent book: It's a fascinating book, with beautiful pictures and good information on certain subjects. For the prices available on this site it is well worth the buy though. I bought it many for the picture of [... more]
CDN$24.95
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Alone Across the Arctic: A Woman's Journey Across
Not Alone in the Arctic: I, too, read Pam Flowers' book with great interest, as I love anything to do with the Arctic and dogsledding. However, what all the other reviewers seem to forget is that while Flowers did the actual trek with her dogs, it was [... more]
CDN$16.95
Amazon CA |
Lonely Planet Arctic
overall nicely done: i had already picked up the LP guide to the antarctic and i saw this and just couldn't resist. (and this is a guy who *freezes* when it gets below 60 degrees!) overall, the book seems great, though of course i can't speak from [... more]
CDN$27.95
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Seduction in the garden.
No, this isn't the first chapter of a romance novel. There is no ripping of bodices ( I had to go to Google to find out what a When the snow piles up outside during a cold northern winter and wind from some arctic region blows hard, a garden ... [... more]
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God's Gardens
The wonderful sights of nature we have seen have ranged from the giant fern trees (Kay calls them tree ferns) in New Zealand to tiny arctic flowers that you have to get your nose up to to really see. Fields of wild color, individually Lilliputian ... [... more]
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Rebecca Baines
Arctic Tale accompanies a new Paramount Vantage motion picture from the producers of March of the Penguins, the 2005 Academy Award winner and highest-grossing natural history film of all time. The film, narrated by Queen Latifah, follows the dual ... [... more]
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Balboa Park
To an escapee from a cold, snowy northeast winter, January in Balboa Park, San Diego, was a flight from the Arctic to Eden. Why, surprise of surprises, there actually were flowers blooming, and outdoors too ! The world was not white and black but ... [... more]
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