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Shipwrecked on the Top of the World
| Author: | David Roberts |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Co |
| Catalogue number: | 130634 |
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In 1743 fourteen Walrus hunters from Russia were stranded on the icepack around Svalbard after a storm destroyed their ship. Marooned with minimal provisions but with their incredible endurance and...
| Series: | General Bathymetric Charts of the Oceans |
| Sheet reference: | 5.17 |
| Publisher: | UNESCO |
| Catalogue number: | 33823 |
| Scale: | 1:6,000,000 |
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This Arctic region map extends to latitude 64º South with the land masses of Greenland, Iceland and Baffin Island allowed to project beyond. Additional under-ice terrain contours are shown where appropriate...
| Sheet reference: | 4006 |
| Publisher: | Admiralty Hydrographic Office |
| Catalogue number: | 30839 |
| Scale: | 1:7,500,000 |
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A nautical planning chart of the Arctic region, centred on the North Pole and extending out to the adjacent islands and continental land masses. Includes Greenland, Iceland, most of Scandinavia, northern...
| Author: | Jennifer Niven |
| Publisher: | Pan Books |
| Catalogue number: | 101274 |
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In 1913, what was to have been the grandest and most elaborate Arctic expedition in history ended just six weeks later with the HMCS Karluk trapped by polar ice. Five months later, hopelessly off course...
| Author: | Peter Webb |
| Publisher: | Seafarer Books |
| Catalogue number: | 164790 |
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“Ice Bears and Kotick” is the extraordinary true story of a boat journey that two men made for the fun of it. They rowed and sailed through pack ice, past glaciers and icebergs. They survived whales...
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At 66 1/2º north the sun never sets on the longest day of the year, yet never rises on the shortest. This is the Arctic Circle, encompassing a suprisingly large part of Europe, including northern Scandinavia, to the east of this the Kola Peninsula in Russia, Greenland to the west and the Norwegian-owned Svalbard archipelago 1,000 miles north of Norway.
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The Charlie Connelly Interview
When Charlie Connelly came to Stanfords recently to sign copies of his hugely successful Attention All Shipping just prior to the launch of his latest book, In Search of Elvis, James Innes Williams...
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John Simpson, the renowned BBC world affairs editor,visited Stanfords in London to discuss his new book Not Quite World’s End. John has graced our screens for 40 years in a career that has seen him reporting from the front line in various war-torn parts of the world...
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Ranulph Fiennes is one of Britain’s most famous expedition leaders. He found time in between adventures to stop into Stanfords to give some more insights into his fascinating life...
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