Book description
A beautiful literary anthology published to commemorate the International Polar Year―and remind us what we're in danger of losing.
The Arctic and Antarctic ice shelves have been an object of obsession for as long as we've known they existed. Countless explorers, including such legends as Richard Byrd, Ernest Shackleton, and…
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Why read it?
1 author picked The Ends of the Earth as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
If you can’t decide which of the many long stories of polar expeditions to read, this one is for you!
This book is a selection from the stories of the famous Arctic explorers: John Franklin, Roald Asmussen, Fridtjof Nansen. If you flip the book around and turn it upside down, you get a selection of Antarctic explorers of the same caliber, which is a brilliant design.
From Karen's list on why anyone would want to freeze in the Arctic.
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