Arctic Ocean

Listeners will laugh aloud at the silly antics of a pair of opinionated sea mammals in a tale presenting two sides of a debate, slyly revealing the way identical facts can be used to support opposite positions. A boastful whale and a showboating otter compete in a battle of words to prove that...

They thought the cold would kill whatever was on that plane. They were wrong. When a distress signal crackles through the radio, Bram Keller and his small crew at a remote Arctic station are ordered to respond. What they find isn't wreckage—it's a massacre. The pilots are dead… but still...

"...Damron's able narration carries listeners through this arduous journey with a steady tone that lightens at moments of joy and becomes grave at times of deep sadness and loss. While the tale has all of the trappings of a great adventure novel, neither the author nor Damron let listeners...

In this riveting follow-up to The Blood Gospel, the first book in the thrilling and atmospheric Order of the Sanguine series, New York Times bestselling authors James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell deliver a tale of international adventure, intrigue, suspense, and supernatural mystery involving a...

Two brothers fight for survival in icy waters! For fans of Dewey Lambdin, Patrick O’Brian, Nicholas Monsarrat, C.S. Forester and Max Hennessy. The worst journey in the world…1941. Twin brothers Romulus and Remus Hutchinson have been serving in a range of challenging environments as the naval threat intensifies, but none more so than the icy waters of the Arctic. Following the trauma of the death of a family member in a Luftwaffe bombing raid on Liverpool, the twins are battling with their grief as they fight to survive in the face of the most ruthless of enemies and the harshest of climates.

In The Arctic, Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall offer concise answers to the myriad questions that arise when looking at the circumpolar North. They focus on its peoples, politics, environment, resource development, and conservation to provide critical information about how changes there can, and will, affect our entire globe and all of its inhabitants. Dodds and Nuttall explore how the Arctic's importance has grown over time, the region's role during the Cold War, indigenous communities and their history, and the past and future of the Arctic's governance.

Setting out from New Bedford in 1878, the crew of the Esther is confident the sea will be theirs: in addition to cruising the Pacific for whale, they intend to hunt the teeming northern grounds before the ice closes. But as they sail to their final destination in the Chukchi Sea, where their captain Arnold Lovejoy has an urgent directive of his own to attend to, their encounters with the natural world become more brutal, harrowing, ghostly, and strange.

The world heard the names. Now every navy on Earth wants the submarine silenced. Captain Viktor Sobolev's broadcast of the Kursk dead made him the most wanted man alive. The Russian government calls him a terrorist. NATO calls him a rogue nuclear threat. The truth is worse than either — because someone inside the Kremlin authorized the entire operation, and Viktor was never the rebel he believed himself to be. Now hunted through Arctic waters by his own fleet and shadowed by an American submarine commander who isn't sure whether to sink him or save him, Viktor faces a threat far more ...

In the bestselling tradition of Hampton Sides’s In the Kingdom of Ice, a “gripping adventure tale” (The Boston Globe) recounting Dutch polar explorer William Barents’ three harrowing Arctic expeditions—the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging year-long fight for...

Philip Caputo, who had just turned 70, his wife, and their two English setters took off in a truck hauling an Airstream camper from Key West, Florida, en route via back roads and state routes to Deadhorse, Alaska. The journey took four months and covered 17,000 miles, during which Caputo interviewed more than 80 Americans from all walks of life to get a picture of what their lives and the life of the nation are really about in the 21st century.

Shortly after his death in 1957, The New York Times obituary of Peter Freuchen noted that except for Richard E. Byrd, and despite his foreign beginnings, Freuchen was perhaps better known to more people in the United States than any other explorer of our time. During his lifetime Freuchen's remarkable adventures, related in his books, magazine articles, and films, made him a legend. In 1910, Freuchen and his friend and business partner, Knud Rasmussen, the renowned polar explorer, founded Thule—a Greenland Inuit trading post and village only 800 miles from the North Pole.

A sea captain’s beautifully written tour of our planet, our oceans, and our ever-changing atmosphere What’s in a cloud? Did you know that water vapor is invisible and actually lighter than dry air? What separates a tropical storm from a winter blizzard? And what exactly is El Niño? Elliot...

In a modern world, were communication and global reach is a given, staying stock in the middle of the arctic tundra, a group of scientists will face an evil, never before seen, by human eyes. the adventures and mysteries they will encounter will leave you breathless, and asking for more, the smell and flavor of human flesh will not be easily ignored. lost , in a trail. whiteout blizzards and blackout nights.

Jimmy Roberts' favourite sport to watch is Robot Races, where drivers and their high-tech robot vehicles compete. When the races' founder announces a special version of the competition just for children, Jimmy and his robot, Cabbie, were thrilled to qualify. After surviving the canyon and jungle stages, the racers are whisked off to the Arctic, where not everyone is playing fair. Will Horace and Zoom put Jimmy's chances of winning on ice?

The submarine is dying. The world is watching. And the wolves are circling. Captain Viktor Sobolev has done the impossible — surfaced a stolen Typhoon-class submarine in open water and forced the world to witness Russia's darkest secrets. Every missile hatch is open. Every camera on the planet is pointed at his boat. The truth is finally out. But truth doesn't stop torpedoes. A rogue attack submarine crewed by nationalist officers is hunting him through the Pacific, and it isn't interested in politics. It's interested in killing. Meanwhile, the Typhoon is tearing itself apart from the ...

“Old-school creepy… a five-star horror novel.” STEPHEN KING A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean leads a group of scientists to a series of jaw-dropping revelations that challenge the notion of what it means to...

When a plane crashes in the Alaskan wilderness, the best place to land is in the arms of a younger man… “Whether making my heart melt or my head burst into flames, Annabeth Albert draws the reader in and keeps them captivated.” —Gay Book Reviews Hotshot attorney Reuben Graham has finally...

NEW & UPDATED: TONS OF AMAZING FUN FACTS WITH 150+ IMAGES! Perfect for Kids Who Love Animals, Aliens, Oceans and Everything in Between! Even the Smartest Kids Will LOVE This Wonderful Journey of Knowledge + FUN - Guaranteed to AMAZE! Get ALL FOUR BOOKS In This Series - Each Book Full of UNIQUE Fun Facts! What Makes This Book Worth Buying? ✅ TONS OF IMAGES: Lovely images all through the book. ✅ VARIETY: A wide range of facts to keep things interesting. ✅ KID FRIENDLY: Age-appropriate content and facts for kids. ✅ EASY TO HOLD: Large book size to easily hold and read. ✅ CLEAR & ...

Alice, a young Orca, finds adventure as she travels in the Arctic Ocean. The threats of crashing icebergs and of being trapped by Orca hunters keeps her on the look out for danger.

A letter from a sea captain, signed only with cryptic initials, directs an experienced sailor to built and outfit a ship, and to assemble a crew to sail on a dangerous adventure. The voyage starts towards a northerly destination with, as far as anyone knows, no captain aboard. After some time at...