Summary: Program 1: The End of the Earth: Shows the fierce, remote, and astonishingly beautiful part of the earth. Look into the face of the Katabatic, the downward sloping wind that decimates life and dictates the weather. Then look at icebergs at the edge of the sea, these vast platforms of ice are the source of life for seals, whales, krill, penguins and petrels, but they also have a life of their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Questar 2003
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NATGolkar, Golriz
Summary: "In 1881, U.S. Army Lieutenant Adolphus Greely and his crew set sail for the Arctic. Their mission was to collect scientific data on the polar climate. They also had a second, secret goal: to achieve Farthest North, the record for highest latitude reached by explorers. But when resupply ships failed to arrive two years in a row, the team's dreams of glory turned into a nightmarish fight for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Library is published by Capstone Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J919.804 GOLSummary: Life in the extreme. In a fragile world of beauty and hostility, nature finds a way to survive and thrive. Sir David Attenborough explores a planet on the brink of major change.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Earth 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC FROCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FROCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FROShapiro, Laurie Gwen
Summary: It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great War was over and American optimism was higher than the stock market. What better moment to launch an expedition to Antarctica, the planet’s final frontier? This was the moon landing before the 1960s. Everyone wanted to join the adventure. Rockefellers and Vanderbilts begged to be taken along as mess...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.89 SHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 919.890 SHAKellaher, Karen
Summary: A harsh and icy land isolated at the far southern reaches of the globe, Antarctica is the most recently discovered of the continents. Until the 1800s, no humans had ever set foot upon its shores. Today, it remains mostly uninhabited, but it is far from empty. Readers will meet the unique plants and animals that call this frozen continent home, explore its unique history, examine the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 919.89 KELCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 919.89 KELMessner, Kate
Summary: Once again the mysterious box takes the golden retriever Ranger back in time, and he finds himself on Robert Falcon Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, headed for Antarctica, where his mission is to save Jack Nin, a Chinese-Maori stowaway from New Zealand, from the blizzards, unstable ice, and the other hazards that lie ahead for the doomed expedition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION MESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MESBuckley, James.
Summary: "As a boy he preferred reading sea stories to doing homework and, at age 16, became an apprentice seaman. Subsequently, Ernest Shackleton's incredible journeys to the South Pole in the early 1900s made him one of the most famous explorers of modern times. His courage in the face of dangerous conditions and unforeseeable tragedies reveal the great leader that he was. His historic 1914 journey...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2013