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1

Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition

by Owen Beattie

674 members

24 reviews

4

3 Members: oregonobsessionz, Luchtpint, Jchester

2

The Voyage of the Narwhal

by Andrea Barrett

1,612 members

38 reviews

3.9

3 Members: oregonobsessionz, gnj.kunkeler, Jchester

3

The Worst Journey in the World

by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

2,150 members

59 reviews

4.2

2 Members: oregonobsessionz, Jchester

4

Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship

by Martin W. Sandler

283 members

4 reviews

3.8

2 Members: oregonobsessionz, gnj.kunkeler

5

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

by Alfred Lansing

6,219 members

153 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: oregonobsessionz

6

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

by Caroline Alexander

2,010 members

43 reviews

4.2

Member: oregonobsessionz

7

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917

by Ernest Shackleton

2,161 members

45 reviews

4.1

Member: oregonobsessionz

8

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

by Hampton Sides

1,473 members

67 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: oregonobsessionz

9

by Fridtjof Nansen

462 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: oregonobsessionz

10

A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole

by Diana Preston

190 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: oregonobsessionz

11

The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and The North Pole, 1818-1909

by Pierre Berton

514 members

13 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: oregonobsessionz

12

The Last Place on Earth

by Roland Huntford

752 members

17 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: oregonobsessionz

13

Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin in the Years 1853.'54,'55 (2 Volumes)

by Elisha Kent Kane

138 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: oregonobsessionz

14

The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party

by Kelly Tyler-Lewis

253 members

4 reviews

4.2

Member: oregonobsessionz

15

Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals

by Robert Falcon Scott

592 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: oregonobsessionz

16

Scott of the Antarctic: A Life of Courage and Tragedy

156 members

3 reviews

4

Member: oregonobsessionz

17

An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science

by Edward J. Larson

165 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: oregonobsessionz

18

The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott: Unseen Images from the Legendary Antarctic Expedition

by David M. Wilson

138 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: oregonobsessionz

19

Diary of the "Terra Nova" Expedition to the Antarctic, 1910-12

by Edward Wilson

27 members

4

Member: oregonobsessionz

20

The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton, and Antarctic Photography

by David Hempleman-Adams

90 members

4

Member: oregonobsessionz

21

The Voyage of the Discovery, Volume I: Scott's First Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904

by Robert Falcon Scott

39 members

1 review

4

Member: oregonobsessionz

22

The Voyage of the Discovery, Volume II: Scott's First Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904

by Robert F. Scott

23 members

5

Member: oregonobsessionz

23

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance

by Jennifer Armstrong

1,103 members

129 reviews

4.2

Member: oregonobsessionz

24

Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition

by Caroline Alexander

255 members

9 reviews

4

Member: oregonobsessionz

25

Shackleton's Boat Journey

by Frank Worsley

466 members

8 reviews

4.2

Member: oregonobsessionz

26

Tragedy and Triumph: The Journals of Captain R. F. Scott's Last Polar Expedition

by Inc. Book Sales

1 member

Member: oregonobsessionz

27

Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition: The Voyage of the Nimrod

by Beau Riffenburgh

139 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: oregonobsessionz

28

Race to The End: Amundsen, Scott, and the Attainment of the South Pole

by Ross D. E. MacPhee

47 members

3.1

Member: oregonobsessionz

29

Arctic Researches, and Life Among the Esquimaux: Being the Narrative of an Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, in the Years 1860, 1861, and 1862

by Charles Francis Hall

9 members

Member: oregonobsessionz

30

The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk

by Jennifer Niven

735 members

13 reviews

4.1

Member: oregonobsessionz

31

2,208 members

42 reviews

4.1

Member: oregonobsessionz

32

Prisoners of the North

by Pierre Berton

160 members

6 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: oregonobsessionz

33

by Agnes Deans Cameron

18 members

Member: oregonobsessionz

34

by David Roberts

168 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: oregonobsessionz

35

Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America

by Owen Matthews

93 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: oregonobsessionz

36

Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage

by Glyn Williams

102 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: oregonobsessionz

37

The Search for the North West Passage

47 members

½ 4.3

Member: oregonobsessionz

38

Voyages of Delusion: The Quest for the Northwest Passage

by Glyn Williams

161 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: oregonobsessionz

39

Farthest North: A History of the North Polar Exploration in Eyewitness Accounts

by Clive Holland

43 members

4

Member: oregonobsessionz

40

Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica 1699-1839

158 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: oregonobsessionz

41

Trial by Ice: The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition

by Richard Parry

205 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: oregonobsessionz

42

This Accursed Land

by Lennard Bickel

359 members

6 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: oregonobsessionz

43

The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition

by Susan Solomon

200 members

3 reviews

4

Member: oregonobsessionz

44

The Home of the Blizzard: Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-14

by Douglas Mawson

272 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: oregonobsessionz

45

Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard

by Sara Wheeler

217 members

7 reviews

4.1

Member: oregonobsessionz

46

The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912

by Roald Amundsen

236 members

4 reviews

4

Member: oregonobsessionz

47

by Fergus Fleming

483 members

6 reviews

4.1

Member: oregonobsessionz

48

Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole

by Fergus Fleming

231 members

4 reviews

4

Member: oregonobsessionz

49

Captain Francis Crozier: Last Man Standing?

by Michael Smith

63 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: oregonobsessionz

50

Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

by Nathaniel Philbrick

1,919 members

25 reviews

3.9

Member: oregonobsessionz

51

Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

by Julian Sancton

879 members

30 reviews

4.1

Member: oregonobsessionz

52

Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

by Andrea Pitzer

335 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: oregonobsessionz

53

The Crossing of Antarctica; the Commonwealth Trans- Antarctic Expedition, 1955–58

by Vivian Fuchs

198 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: oregonobsessionz

54

Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue

103 members

9 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: oregonobsessionz

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