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Greenland Ventures
Leave the luxuries of the twenty-first century behind and head for the transcendent beauty of Greenland, letting the author be your guide. With a wealth of mountaineering experience, a perceptive eye and bundles of enthusiasm, Woolley leads his readers through this most extreme of landscapes, charting close on twenty years of expeditions through his personal trials and...
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This Cold Heaven
In a tribute to the far latitudes, Gretel Ehrlich travels across Greenland, the largest island on earth. All but five per cent of the island is covered by a vast ice sheet, an enduring remnant of the last ice age. Despite a uniquely hostile environment, it has been inhabited continuously for thousands of years....
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The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
DIVDIVDIVDIVFive hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of Gudrid’s story were true. Then, in...
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Globe Trekker: Iceland Greenland
GLOBE TREKKER:ICELAND AND GREENLAND - DVD Movie
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Director: Ian Cross
Actor: Ian Wright
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An Historical And Descriptive Account Of Iceland, Greenland, And The Faroe Islands - With Illustrations Of Their Natural History
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork....
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