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Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole

By: Dr. Jerri Nielsen with Maryanne Vollers

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Hyperion: 2001

Seller ID: 6865

ISBN: 0786866845

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole

By: Dr. Jerri Nielsen with Maryanne Vollers

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Hyperion: 2001

Seller ID: 77365

ISBN: 0786866845

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Jerri Nielsen was a forty-six-year-old doctor working in Ohio when she made the decision to take a year's sabbatical at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on Antarctica, the most remote and perilous place on Earth. The "Polies," as they are known, live in almost total darkness for six months of the year, in winter temperatures as low as 100 degrees below zero--with no way in or out before the spring.

During the long winter of 1999, Dr. Nielsen, solely responsible for the mental and physical fitness of a team of researchers, construction workers, and support staff, discovered a lump in her bre...
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Caves of Adventure, translated from the French by Alan Hodge

By: Haroun Tazieff

Price: $5.75

Publisher: Viking: 1960

Seller ID: 27919

ISBN: 0670015075

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

former owner's name 1st page, light tanning, lightly rubbed else clean & tight - Buy with confidence from 'Your neighborhood book store,... online (tm)
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Apollo 13: Lost Moon

By: Jim Lovell

Price: $2.75

Publisher: Pocket: July 1995

Seller ID: 68286

ISBN: 0671534645

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Castaway

By: Lucy Irvine

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Random House: 1983

Seller ID: 28873

ISBN: 0394535421

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

minor edge wear, very light tanning, lightly rubbed - dust jacket chipped, edge worn rubbed - Buy with confidence from 'Your neighborhood book store,... online (tm)
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Lost at Sea

By: Patrick Dillon

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Touchstone: August 2000

Seller ID: 82737

ISBN: 0684869098

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

On February 3, 1983, the men aboard Americus and Altair, two state-of-the-art crabbing vessels, docked in their home port of Anacortes, Washington, prepared to begin a grueling three-month season fishing in the notorious Bering Sea. Eleven days later, on Valentine's Day, the overturned hull of the Americus was found drifting in calm seas, with no record of even a single distress call or trace of its seven-man crew. The Altair vanished altogether. Despite the desperate search that followed, no evidence of the vessel or its crew would ever be found. Fourteen men were...
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Cape Horn: One Man's Dream : One Woman's Nightmare

By: Reanne Hemingway-Douglass

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Fineedge.Com Llc: July 1994

Seller ID: 80801

ISBN: 0938665294

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Treasure Hunter: Diving for Gold on North America's Death Coast

By: Robert MacKinnon,Dallas Murphy

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Berkley: August 2013

Seller ID: 82388

ISBN: 0425253635

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

By: Sebastian Junger

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Harper Perennial: October 1999

Seller ID: 67450

ISBN: 0060977477

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The #1 New York Times bestseller is now available in paperback with never-before-seen photos--just in time for Father's Day Superb. . . . Told with authority, brio and deep sympathy for those in peril on the sea.--Washington Post Book World. 8-page photo insert.
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

By: Sebastian Junger

Price: $3.95

Publisher: W.W. Norton: 1997

Seller ID: 15443

ISBN: 039304016X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Drifting down on swimmers is standard rescue procedure, but the seas are so violent that Buschor keeps getting flung out of reach. There are times when he's thirty feet higher than the men trying to rescue him. . . . I]f the boat's not going to Buschor, Buschor's going to have to go to it. SWIM they scream over the rail. SWIM Buschor rips off his gloves and hood and starts swimming for his life."

It was the storm of the century, boasting waves over one hundred feet high a tempest created by so rare a combination of factors that meteorologists deemed it "the perfec...
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Fatal Treasure: Greed and Death, Emeralds and Gold, and the Obsessive Search for the Legendary Ghost Galleon Atocha

By: Smith, Jedwin

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Wiley: April 2003

Seller ID: 86307

ISBN: 0471158941

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

In real life-especially off the Florida coast-things can have fatal consequences. Fatal Treasure is a truly compelling read.
-Aphrodite Jones, New York Times bestselling author of Cruel Sacrifice and All She Wanted

In 1622, hundreds of people lost their lives to the curse of the Spanish galleon Atocha-and they would not be the last. Fatal Treasure combines the rousing adventure of Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea with the compelling characters and local color of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. It tells the powerful true story of the relentless quest to find the Atocha and recl...
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Category: Adventure: Non Fiction