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1) The sea wolf
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Life of a Norwegian sealing schooner and a grim picture of a sailor who is a combination of savage and superman.
The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London. The book's protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him.
A Classic Adventure Novel that Belongs on Every...
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"The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world's greatest living ice navigator. The expedition's visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame. Just six weeks after the Karluk departed,...
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"The outstanding new Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Baffin Island: Husband-and-wife team Sami and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in theice, perfectly preserved-and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico. How can that be? As they plunge into their research, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary...
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Alaska's Federal Wilderness Zone.two hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle.one of the most remote places on Earth. But for a group of scientists sponsored by a major media conglomerate, an expedition to the Zone represents the opportunity of a lifetime to study the effects of global warming.
The expedition changes suddenly on a routine foray into a glacial ice cave, where the group makes an astonishing find: an ancient animal encased in solid...
5) Narwhals
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"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to narwhals. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
6) Reindeer
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Amicus/Amicus Ink
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"This search-and-find book invites young readers to look for new vocabulary words and pictures while giving simple facts about a reindeer's Arctic habitat, body parts, and behaviors"--
7) Sea otters
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Amicus/Amicus Ink
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"This search-and-find book invites young readers to look for new vocabulary words and pictures while giving simple facts about a sea otter's Arctic habitat, body parts, and behaviors"--
8) Snowy owls
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Amicus/Amicus Ink
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"This search-and-find book invites young readers to look for new vocabulary words and pictures while giving simple facts about a snowy owl's Arctic habitat, body parts, and behaviors"--
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Magic tree house volume Book 12
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Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to the Arctic, where a polar bear leads them onto very thin ice.
12) Arctic dogs
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Entertainment Studios
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Swifty, the Arctic Fox, works in the mailroom of the Arctic Blast Delivery Service but dreams of one day becoming a Top Dog. To prove himself worthy of the Top Dog role, Swifty secretly commandeers one of the sleds and delivers a mysterious package to a secret location. He stumbles upon a hidden fortress, where he comes face to face with Otto Von Walrus, a blubbery evil genius. He discovers Otto Von Walrus₂ plan to drill beneath Arctic surface to...
15) Chasing ice
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Ro*Co Films Educational
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"In the spring of 2005, acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment for National Geographic: to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth's changing climate. Even with a scientific upbringing, Balog had been a sceptic about climate change. But that first trip north opened his eyes ... Within months of that first trip to Iceland, the photographer conceived the boldest expedition of his life:...
16) Deception point
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Rachel Sexton works for the National Reconnaissance Office as an intelligence officer. She is also the daughter of a Senator currently running for President. Her father's main offensive, and a very popular one, against the incumbent President is to attack the huge amount of NASA funding. Rachel is barely on speaking terms with her father, believing him to be totally corrupt, but is still worried she is being used by the President when he asks her...
19) Arctic drift
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A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming . . . a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia . . . a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war . . . NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there's a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to...
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