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| 2019 | Hoopla | Unabridged | HarperAudio | 1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 07 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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| 2019 | Hoopla | Harper Collins Publishers | 1 online resource (320 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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In the brutally cold winter of 1919, 5,000 Americans battled the Red Army 600 miles north of Moscow. We have forgotten. Russia has not. An unforgettable human drama deep with contemporary resonance, award-winning historian James Carl Nelson's The Polar Bear Expedition draws on an untapped trove of firsthand accounts to deliver a vivid, soldier's-eye view of an extraordinary lost chapter of American history-the Invasion of Russia one hundred years...
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William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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2019
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East Hampton Adult Nonfiction
947.084 NEL
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| 1 of 1 | East Hampton Adult Nonfiction | 947.084 NEL |
| 1 of 1 | Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction 3rd Floor | 947.0841/NEL |
| 1 of 1 | Norwich/Otis Adult Nonfiction | 947.0841 NEL |
| 1 of 1 | Old Saybrook/Acton Adult Non-Fiction | 947.084 NELSON |
| 1 of 1 | Wallingford Adult Nonfiction | 947.0841 NELSON |
| 1 of 1 | Woodbridge Adult NF 900-999 | 947.0841/NEL |
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| 2019 | First edition | William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | viii, 309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm | On Shelf East Hampton Adult Nonfiction 947.084 NEL
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"The extraordinary true story of America's forgotten invasion of Russia: one-thousand miles north of Moscow, five-thousand brave U.S. troops from Michigan fought the Red Army during the winter of 1918-1919 in brutal arctic conditions."--Provided by publisher.
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| 1 of 1 | East Hampton Adult Nonfiction | 910.911 HOR |
| 1 of 1 | Durham Adult Non-Fiction | 910.9113 HOR |
| 1 of 1 | Wallingford Adult Nonfiction | 910.9113 HORN |
| 1 of 1 | West Haven Main Adult Non-fiction | 910.9113 HOR |
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| 2007 | 1st U.S. ed | St. Martin's Press | 355 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. | On Shelf East Hampton Adult Nonfiction 910.911 HOR
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| 2014 | Hoopla | St. Martin's Publishing Group | 1 online resource (368 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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In August 2002, Mike Horn set out on a mission that bordered on the impossible: to travel 12,000 miles around the globe at the Arctic Circle, alone, against all prevailing winds and currents, and without motorized transportation. Conquering the Impossible is the gripping account of Horn's grueling 27-month expedition by sail and by foot through extreme Arctic conditions that nearly cost him his life on numerous occasions. Enduring temperatures that...
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2014
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English
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| 1 of 1 | Branford/Blackstone Adult Nonfiction | 910.452 SID |
| 1 of 1 | Durham Adult Non-Fiction | 910.452 SID |
| 1 of 1 | East Haddam/Rathbun A Adult Nonfiction | 910.4 SID |
| 1 of 1 | East Lyme Public Adult Non-Fiction | 910.452 Sides |
| 1 of 1 | Essex Adult Nonfiction | 910.4 SID |
| 1 of 1 | Guilford Adult Non-Fiction | 910.45 SIDES |
| 1 of 1 | Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction 3rd Floor | 910.452/SID |
| 1 of 1 | Ledyard/Gales Ferry Nonfiction | 910.452 Sid |
| 1 of 1 | Lyme Adult Nonfiction | 910.452 SID |
| 1 of 1 | Madison/Scranton Adult Nonfiction | 910.452 SIDES |
| 2 of 2 | New London Adult Non Fiction | 910.452 SID |
| 1 of 1 | North Branford/Atwater Adult Nonfiction | 910.45 Sides |
| 1 of 1 | North Haven Adult Nonfiction | 910.452 Sides |
| 1 of 1 | North Stonington/Wheeler Adult Nonfiction | 910.4 SIDES [AUG 14] |
| 1 of 1 | Norwich/Otis Adult Nonfiction | 910.452 SID |
| 1 of 1 | Old Lyme A Non-Fiction 900 | 910.452 SID |
| 1 of 1 | Old Saybrook/Acton Adult Non-Fiction | 910.452 SIDES |
| 1 of 1 | Orange/Case Adult Nonfiction Book | 910.452 Sides |
| 1 of 1 | Stony Creek/Willoughby Wallace Adult Non-Fiction | 910.4 SID |
| 1 of 1 | Wallingford Adult Nonfiction | 910.452 SIDES |
| 1 of 1 | Westbrook Adult Non-Fiction | 910.452 SID |
| 1 of 1 | Woodbridge Adult NF 900-999 | 910.452/SID |
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| 2014 | First edition | Doubleday | xiv., 454 pages, 8pages of plates : map ; 24 cm | Available from another library
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| 2014 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Checked Out
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A dramatic account of the ill-fated 19th-century naval expedition to the North Pole cites the contributions of German cartographer August Peterman, New York Herald owner James Gordon Bennett and famed naval officer George Washington De Long in the team's efforts to survive brutal environmental conditions.
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Chicago Review Press
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2016
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Chicago Review Press | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection Online OverDrive Collection |
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The first and only young adult book about Ada Blackjack and her remarkable, true-life survival story In 1921, four men ventured into the Arctic for a top-secret expedition—an attempt to claim the remote, uninhabited Wrangel Island in northern Siberia for Canada. With the men was a 23-year-old Inuit woman named Ada Blackjack, who had signed on as a cook and seamstress to earn money to care for her sick son, left at home. Conditions soon turned...
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| 1 of 1 | East Lyme Public J Fiction (Paperback) | J Horse |
| 1 of 1 | Hamden/Miller Children's Fiction | J/FIC/HORSE |
| 1 of 1 | Hamden/Whitneyville Children's Fiction | J/FIC/HORSE |
| 1 of 1 | Old Saybrook/Acton Juvenile Fiction | J HORSE |
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| c2007 | 1st ed | Peachtree | 104 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 20 cm. | Available from another library
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| c1993 | Puffin Books | 75 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. | Available from another library
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Letters from Grandfather, who has gone on an expedition with his little dog Roo, to find the last polar bears at the North Pole.
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Polar Bear Explorers' Club volume 1
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date:
[2018]
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1000L
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English
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| 0 of 1 | East Hampton Young Adult Fiction | YA FIC BEL |
| 1 of 1 | Lyme Juvenile Fiction | J FIC BELL |
| 1 of 1 | North Branford/Atwater Children's Fiction | j Fiction Series Polar #1 Bell |
| 1 of 1 | North Haven Children's Fiction | jFiction Bell, Alex Explorers#1 |
| 1 of 1 | Wallingford Children's Fiction | J BELL |
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| [2018] | First US edition | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | xvi, 300 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. | Checked Out/Available Elsewhere
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"Stella Starflake Pearl knows, without a doubt, that she was born to be an adventurer. It's too bad girls are forbidden from becoming explorers. But Stella's father has never been one to play by the rules. Leaving behind her pet polar bear, Gruff, and beloved unicorn, Magic, Stella and Felix set off on an expedition to the snowy Icelands. There, Stella plans to prove herself as a junior explorer, worthy of membership in the Polar Bear Explorers' Club....
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2022
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| 1 of 1 | Branford/Blackstone Adult Nonfiction | BIO.SHACKLETON (ERNEST) |
| 1 of 1 | East Lyme Public Adult Biography | B SHACKLETON, ERNEST (Fiennes) |
| 1 of 1 | Guilford Adult Biography | BIOG SHACKLETON, ERNEST |
| 1 of 1 | Old Lyme A Biography | BIO SHACKLETON |
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| 2022 | First Pegasus Books cloth edition | Pegasus Books | 404 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm | Available from another library
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| 2022 | Hoopla | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | 1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 51 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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"To write about Hell, it helps if you have been there. In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice. The disaster left Shackleton and his men alone at the frozen South Pole, fighting for their lives. Their survival and escape is the most famous adventure in history. Shackleton is a captivating new account of the adventurer, his life and his incredible leadership under...
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| 1 of 1 | Hamden/Miller Adult Mysteries Hardcover | MY/WEBB |
| 1 of 1 | Wallingford Adult Fiction | WEBB |
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| 2015 | First edition | Poisoned Pen Press | 243 pages ; 23 cm. | Available from another library
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| 2017 | Hoopla | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | 1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 53 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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Zookeeper Theodora Bentley travels to Iceland to pick up an orphaned polar bear for a new exhibit. While in Iceland, she must put her investigative skills to use when two American birdwatchers are killed in a picturesque seaside village.
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| 2013 | Hoopla | Pen & Sword Books | 1 online resource (194 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | |
| 2014 | Hoopla | Skyhorse | 1 online resource (208 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) was the most successful polar explorer of his era using sledges, dogs, ski and ships. He is mainly remembered for being the first man to reach the South Pole on 14 December 1911. What is less often remembered is that he was also the first man to reach the North Pole on 12 May 1926 as the leader of the Amundsen- Ellsworth-Nobile expedition in the airship Norge. His involvement in aviation from 1909 to his death in 1928, has...
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| 2012 | Hoopla | Andrews UK | 1 online resource (318 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | |
| 2022 | Hoopla | Open Road Media | 1 online resource (786 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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An explorer obsessed with reaching the North Pole undertakes a harrowing expedition in this classic novel of adventure and survival in the Arctic. Capt. John Hatteras will stop at nothing to reach the North Pole. After having a steamship built for the purpose, he embarks for terra incognita. But when he encounters a frozen sea, mutiny and shipwreck leave Hatteras and his remaining crew stranded on an island in the harsh Arctic winter. Even in the...
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Scribner
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©2021
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| 1 of 1 | East Lyme Public Adult Non-Fiction | 910.9163 Pitzer |
| 1 of 1 | Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction 3rd Floor | 910.9163/PIT |
| 1 of 1 | Lyme Adult Nonfiction | 910.916327 PIT |
| 1 of 1 | Madison/Scranton Adult Nonfiction | 910.9163 PITZER |
| 1 of 1 | Meriden Adult Non-Fiction | 910.9163 PI |
| 1 of 1 | Old Lyme A Non-Fiction 900 | 910.9163 PIT |
| 1 of 1 | Old Saybrook/Acton Adult Non-Fiction | 910.916 PITZER |
| 1 of 1 | West Haven Main Adult Non-fiction | 910.9163 PITZER |
| 1 of 1 | Westbrook Adult Non-Fiction | 910.9163 PIT |
| 1 of 1 | Woodbridge Adult NF 900-999 | 910.9163/PIT |
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| ©2021 | First Scribner Hardcover Edition | Scribner | xi, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm | Available from another library
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"The human story has always been one of perseverance-often against remarkable odds. The most astonishing survival tale of all might be that of 16th-century Dutch explorer William Barents and his crew of sixteen, who ventured farther north than any Europeans before and, on their third polar exploration, lost their ship off the frozen coast of Nova Zembla to unforgiving ice. The men would spend the next year fighting off ravenous polar bears, gnawing...
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Greystone Books
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2022
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| 2022 | Hoopla | Greystone Books | 1 online resource | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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With Arctic ice in steep decline... there is no scientific research more crucial or urgent than the explorations launched by MOSAiC in 2019. In this compelling account, lead scientist Markus Rex shares the personal moments and the planetary stakes of the largest polar expedition in history."-Andrea Pitzer, author of Icebound The Arctic is the epicenter of climate change, warming twice as quickly as the rest of the planet and driving increasing weather...
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2021
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| 2021 | Hoopla | Unabridged | HarperAudio | 1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 17 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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| 2021 | Hoopla | Custom House | 1 online resource (448 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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The riveting true story of the largest polar rescue mission in history: the desperate race to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928. During the Roaring Twenties, zeppelin travel embodied the exuberant spirit of the age. Germany's luxurious Graf Zeppelin ran passenger service from Germany to Brazil; Britain's Imperial Airship Scheme was launched to connect an empire; in America, the iconic...
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David Suzuki Institute :
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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| 1 of 1 | Branford/Blackstone Adult Nonfiction | 551 REX |
| 1 of 1 | Hamden/Miller Adult Nonfiction 3rd Floor | 551/REX |
| 1 of 1 | North Haven Adult Nonfiction | 363.73874 Rex, Markus |
| 1 of 1 | Wallingford Adult Nonfiction | 577.276 REX |
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| 2022 | David Suzuki Institute : | xii, 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm | Available from another library
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"A captain's tell-all about the world's largest Arctic expedition--an illuminating account of seafaring adventure, Arctic natural history, and cutting-edge climate science. The book about the Mosaic Expedition: as seen in the documentary film Arctic Drift, Atmospheric scientist Markus Rex recounts the monumental Arctic expedition he captained for one year in this gripping and authoritative book. A groundbreaking step towards understanding the climate...
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16) My Arctic Summer
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Whittles Publishing
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2017
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| 2017 | Hoopla | Whittles Publishing | 1 online resource (160 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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Spitsbergen is the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago which is situated between the Greenland and Barents Seas, approximately 600 miles from the North Pole. In the 16th century the islands were visited by Barents' expedition and in the ensuing centuries were used primarily as a base for hunting whales, polar bears, seals and walruses. In the 18th century the first scientific and research expeditions came to the island from many countries....
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Red Kestrel Books
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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| 2019 | Hoopla | Red Kestrel Books | 1 online resource (221 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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Adventures in the Arctic, first published in 1932 as "Pechuck," is a fascinating account of exploration, based on the diary of Lorne Knight, who sailed on the Polar Bear in 1915, later joined the Canadian Arctic Expedition, and accompanied Vilhjalmur Stefansson on his journeys in far northern and western Canada in 1917-18. Knight died of scurvy on Wrangel Island in 1923, during a failed attempt to establish a settlement there. Included are 10 pages...
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Polar Bear Explorers' Club volume 3
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date:
[2020]
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English
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| 1 of 1 | North Haven Children's Fiction | jFiction Bell, Alex Explorers#3 |
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| [2020] | First US edition | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | xvi, 333 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. | Available from another library
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"Stella Starflake Pearl has been expelled from the Polar Bear Explorers' Club. But that's not going to stop her and the rest of the junior explorers from embarking on another exceptionally perilous expedition. It hasn't been long since Shay was bitten by a witch wolf, but he's in danger of turning into one himself. Only an ice queen's long-lost spell book and Stella's ice princess magic has the power to break the curse. The one thing standing in...
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Greystone Books
Pub. Date:
2023
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IG: Illustrated Guide 990L
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English
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| 2023 | Hoopla | Greystone Books | 1 online resource | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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For kids 8 to 13, join the largest Arctic expedition ever undertaken-and discover the secrets hidden deep in the ice that reveal how one of the world's crucial ecosystems is changing. The Arctic is changing-fast. The once-frozen landscape is melting before our eyes, and the effects can be felt around the world. But the Arctic is also the region we know the least about. Thick ice, extreme cold, and total darkness have always prevented scientists from...
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20) Arctic Drift
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PBS
Pub. Date:
2021
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English
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| 2021 | Hoopla | PBS | 1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 60 min.)) : sd., col. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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Join scientists on the most ambitious Arctic research expedition ever. Facing hungry polar bears, perilous sea ice cracks, and brutal cold, the team strives to understand the forces that are changing the region--and the world--forever.
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