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Coldest Crucible Arctic Exploration and American Culture

Robinson Michael F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226214153, ISBN: HB: 9780226721842, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 4 line drawings

In the late 1800s, Arctic Fever swept across the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to the Arctic to find a sea route to Asia and, ultimately, to stand at the North Pole. Few of these missions were successful, and many men lost the...

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Northern Exposures An Adventuring Career in Stories and Images

Waterman Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9781602231931, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2014
250 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 96 colour illus.

North of the sixtieth parallel parallel, the sun shines for less than six hours in the winter, and towering mountains are the only skyscrapers. Pristine waters serve caribou, moose, and bears in an unbroken landscape. At any given moment in this spec...

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Pilgrimage to Dollywood A Country Music Road Trip through Tennessee

Morales Helen

ISBN: HB: 9780226536521, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 24 halftones, 4 maps

A star par excellence, Dolly Parton is one of country music's most likable personalities. Even a hard-rocking punk or orchestral aesthete can't help cracking a smile or singing along with songs like "Jolene" and "9 to 5". More than a mere singer or a...

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Ancient World

Culture Studies

Appian Way Ghost Road, Queen of Roads

Kaster Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226142999, ISBN: HB: 9780226425719, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
144 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 24 halftones, 3 line illus.

The Roman poet Statius called the via Appia "the Queen of Roads", and for nearly a thousand years that description held true, as countless travelers trod its path from the center of Rome to the heel of Italy. Today, the road is all but gone, destroye...

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Children's Books

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Alaska on the Go Exploring the 49th State with Children

Kirkland Erin

ISBN: PB: 9781602232211, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2014
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

Nearly two million people visit Alaska every year, drawn to its spectacular views and endless activities. But with such size and so many options, it can seem overwhelming when it comes to planning a family vacation to the 49th state. The best place t...

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Culture Studies

Traveling in Place A History of Armchair Travel

Stiegler Bernd

ISBN: HB: 9780226774671, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
264 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 83 halftones

Armchair travel may seem like an oxymoron. Doesn't travel require us to leave the house? And yet, anyone who has lost herself for hours in the descriptive pages of a novel or the absorbing images of a film knows the very real feeling of having explor...

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Travel

Cruel Way Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939

Maillart Ella K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226033044, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 2 maps, 13 halftones

In 1939 Swiss travel writer and journalist Ella K. Maillart set off on an epic journey from Geneva to Kabul with fellow writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach in a brand new Ford. As the first European women to travel alone on Afghanistan's Northern Road, Ma...

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Culture Studies

Dune's Twisted Edge Journeys in the Levant

Levin Gabriel

ISBN: HB: 9780226923673, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
216 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 halftones, 9 line illus.

"How to speak of the imaginative reach of a land habitually seen as a seedbed of faiths and heresies, confluences and ruptures... trouble spot and findspot, ruin and renewal, fault line and ragged clime, with a medley of people and languages once kno...

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America

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Finding the Arctic History and Culture Along a 2,500-Mile Snowmobile Journey from Alaska to Hudson's Bay

Sturm Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9781602231634, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2012
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 14 maps, 193 colour illus.

The history of the Arctic is rich, filled with fascinating and heroic stories of exploration, multicultural interactions, and humans facing nature at its most extreme. In "Finding the Arctic", the accomplished arctic researcher Matthew Sturm collects...

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Nature

Photography

Science on Ice Four Polar Expeditions

Linder Chris

ISBN: HB: 9780226482477, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
288 pp., 28x20 cm, 157 colour illus.

"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised", wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his time with the 1910 Scott expedition to the South Pole. And that's how most of us still imagine polar exp...

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