FROST ON MY MOUSTACHE: ARCTIC EXPLOITS OF A LORD AND A LOAFER

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FROST ON MY MOUSTACHE: ARCTIC EXPLOITS OF A LORD AND A LOAFER
18 used Offers available from $0.02 * as of Wednesday March 10, 2010 18:30:11, America/Los_Angeles Product information Author: Tim Moore Manufacturer: Publisher: Abacus Category: Book Publication Date: January 1, 1999 Format: Import Number Of Pages: 288 ISBN: 0349111537 Dewey Number: 914.912045 Amazon ASIN: ... More

First Crossing of Greenland: The Gamble that Launched Arctic Exploration (Adventurers & Explorers)

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First Crossing of Greenland: The Gamble that Launched Arctic Exploration (Adventurers & Explorers)
After the successful publication of his biography (1998) and his brilliant polar journal Farthest North (2000), Nansen has in the past years recaptured his reputation as 'a modern Viking' (Daily Mail) which he enjoyed a century ago. This book is an abridgement of the two volumes of journals he edited of his daring crossing... More

Driving to Greenland: Arctic Travel, Northern Sport, and Other Ventures into the Heart of Winter (Travel Guide)

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Driving to Greenland: Arctic Travel, Northern Sport, and Other Ventures into the Heart of Winter (Travel Guide)
Peter Stark's Driving to Greenland delivers the many voices of winter with a crystalline clarity. Intensely personal and often electrifying, Stark's collection of essays, now in paperback, share a love for winter with an acute eye for its scientific virtues as well as the grandness of ice and snow. Following the ... More

Arctic Cycle: Two Wheels, Ice and Fire

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Arctic Cycle: Two Wheels, Ice and Fire
Fast enough to see a lot; slow enough to see it all: bicycle travel is unique. The book exploits this fact as observation, first hand experience, chance encounter, memories and research are blended with the rigours of cycle travel. Spawned by a bicycle journey around the shores of Iceland, from initial... More

Frost on my Moustache: The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer

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Frost on my Moustache: The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer
In the 1850s, a wealthy British philanthropist by the name of Lord Dufferin sailed his yacht into the Arctic Circle and wrote the bestselling travelogue Letters from High Latitudes. In the 1990s, British writer Tim Moore decided to follow Dufferin's steps--by boat, plane, and bike. This retracing of Dufferin's travels across Iceland,... More