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Amazing Arctic & Antarctic projects you can build yourself

2008
A collection of twenty-five interactive projects, activities, and experiments associated with the Arctic and Antarctic, along with historical facts, biographies, and trivia.

The Antarctic: bottom of the world

1972
Describes the geography and plant, animal, and human life on Antarctica, "the coldest, windiest, loneliest, and most lifeless place in the world.".

Polar lands

2001
Illustrations and simple text teach young readers how plants, animals, and people live in the coldest regions on Earth.

To the South Pole

1979
Narrates the dangers and hardships faced by Roald Amundsen as he battled to be the first to overcome the difficulties of the journey to the South Pole.

Robert Scott in the Antarctic

1993
Text and photographs recount the race between Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen to be the first explorers to reach the South Pole, describing Scott's journey in detail, including his death from exhaustion and exposure.

Shackleton and the lost Antarctic expedition

2006
Provides an account of British explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton's 1914 expedition to Antarctica, telling of how the crew survived after their ship became lodged in ice and finally sank. Presented in graphic novel form.

The South Pole

2013
Presents an introduction to different explorers and expeditions of the South Pole.

Antarctic antics

a book of penguin poems
2003
A collection of poems celebrating the habits and habitat of Emperor penguins.

South Pole or bust (an egg)

2007
Joe, Sam, and Fred travel to Antarctica where they help Robert Scott find emperor penguin eggs and attempt to recover The Book which allows the trio to travel across all dimensions of time and space.

The final warning

2009
While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.

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