02458cam a2200361 4500 119405031 TxAuBib 20121203120000.0 090203s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009285278 9781596914438 cloth 1596914432 cloth YDXCP YDXCP BTCTA BAKER BKL TEF IQU GK8 OCLCQ YAM NLGGC DLC TxAuBib The ends of the earth : an anthology of the finest writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2007. 2 v. in 1 : maps ; 25 cm. Works bound back-to-back and inverted; titles transcribed from individual title pages. v. 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. A 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. 20121203. Antarctica. Antarctica. Literary collections. Antarctica. Literary collections. Polar regions. Arctic Regions Literary collections. Arctic Regions. Arctic Regions. Literary collections. Kolbert, Elizabeth. Spufford, Francis, 1964- https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0905/2009285278-d.html Publisher description https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0905/2009285278-b.html Contributor biographical information