travel

Pam Flowers tells the story of how, at the age of thirty-five, she decided to pursue a dream and moved from Texas to Alaska where she learned to become a dog musher and eventually became the first female and first American to travel solo across the entire length of the North American Arctic coast by dog team.

Describes the life and career of the Australian explorer, Sir Doulgas Mawson, focusing on his 1912 scientific expedition to Antarctica.

Letters and journal entries from a visit to Antarctica, the windiest, coldest, most forbidding region on earth.

Pictures and text chronicle fifteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan's famous voyage around the world in which he proved the Earth is round.

An account of the disastrous 1914 expedition to Antarctica and how its members managed to survive.

An environmental reporter recounts his expedition to the North Pole where he followed oceanographers as they studied the mysteries of climate modeling and global warming, revealing how the fate of the pole will impact the earth.

The author describes her experiences visiting Antarctica and shares information on how to get there, what to bring, what to wear, what to eat, how to build a snow shelter, how to avoid crevasses, how to study Antarctic seals, and other survival strategies.

Photographs and text trace Robert Peary's exploration of the Arctic, including his discovery of the North Pole.

Sophie works as a field biologist and naturalist specializing in birds aboard a ship bound for deep ocean waters to study, paint, and record sightings of whales, leaping manta rays, and other marine life.

Presents an introduction to Antarctica, in simple text with illustrations, providing information on the climate, the dangers, and the various expeditions that have crossed these polar regions.