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001 2009285278
003 DLC
005 20090524153838.0
008 090203s2007 nyub 000 0 eng c
010 $a 2009285278
020 $a1596914432 (cloth)
020 $a9781596914438 (cloth)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn153578452
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050 00 $aG606$b.E528 2007
245 04 $aThe ends of the earth :$ban anthology of the finest writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBloomsbury USA :$bDistributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers,$c2007.
300 $a2 v. in 1 :$bmaps ;$c25 cm.
500 $aWorks bound back-to-back and inverted; titles transcribed from individual title pages.
505 00 $aThe Arctic / edited by Elizabeth Kolbert -- The Antarctic / edited by Francis Spufford.
505 0 $av. 1. The Arctic. The extreme misery of the whole party / John Franklin -- The return of light / Elisha Kent Kane -- Murder in the Arctic? / Chauncey Loomis -- See the Esquimaux / Andrea Barrett -- Mount Hatteras / Jules Verne -- The winter night / Fridtjof Nansen -- Andrée's second diary / Salomon August Andrée -- We reach the Pole / Robert Peary -- Kasiagsak, the great liar / Hinrich Rink -- Songs of the Inuit / Knud Rasmussen -- The Garden of Eden / Rockwell Kent -- Kabloona / Gontran de Poncins -- A Greenland Christmas / Tété-Michel Kpomassie -- In a far country / Jack London -- Land ho! / Valerian Albanov -- Icelandic pioneer / Halldór Laxness -- The land, breathing / Barry Lopez -- Aliberti's ride / Gretel Ehrlich -- Unexpected poisons / Marla Cone -- Shishmaref, Alaska / Elizabeth Kolbert.
505 0 $av. 2. The Antarctic. Into the night / Frederick A. Cook -- Landfall / Louis Bernacchi -- Sledge dogs and Englishmen / Edward Wilson -- Farthest south / Ernest Shackleton -- Lt. Shirase's calling card / Nobu Shirase -- The winter journey / Apsley Cherry-Garrard -- Topsy-turvy / Roald Amundsen -- Tragedy all along the line / Robert Falcon Scott -- Scott dies / Francis Spufford -- Mawson lives / Douglas Mawson -- The blow / Richard Byrd -- The blasphemous city / H.P. Lovecraft -- Sea daddy, Stormalong John and Minute maid / John Langone -- White lanterns / Diane Ackerman -- Particles / Bill Green -- Cabin 532 / Jenny Diski -- Hey, woo / Sara Wheeler -- Blue collar / Nicholas Johnson -- In the footsteps of Amundsen, 2016 / Kim Stanley Robinson.
520 $aA literary anthology explores the natural wonders of the frozen landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic in a compilation of first-person narratives, cultural histories, science and nature writing, and fiction.
651 0 $aPolar regions.
651 0 $aArctic regions.
651 0 $aAntarctica.
651 7 $aArctic regions$vLiterary collections.
651 7 $aAntarctica$vLiterary collections.
651 7 $aArctic regions.
651 7 $aAntarctica.
651 7 $aArctic regions$vLiterary collections.$2sears
651 7 $aAntarctica$vLiterary collections.$2sears
651 7 $aArctic regions.$2sears
651 7 $aAntarctica.$2sears
700 1 $aKolbert, Elizabeth.
700 1 $aSpufford, Francis,$d1964-
740 02 $aArctic.
740 02 $aAntarctic.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0905/2009285278-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0905/2009285278-d.html