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Aqilah Rahman The month of December has arrived and here’s a look at eight new book releases to close out the year with. The books include the story about a ship’s crew stranded amid an Arctic expedition, three siblings who find a suitcase of cash after their father passes away, and a woman who receives […]

For three years Richard Freeman worked as Head of Reptiles at Twycross Zoo, England and, today, is the Zoological Director

“Empire of Ice and Stone” tells the terrifying story of a 1913 expedition gone wrong.

An intrepid botanist braved ice and snow to bring his prized specimens home

Subscribe here, or by clicking subscribe above! It’s April 6, 1909, and Robert E. Peary and his assistant Matthew Henson are settling in at yet another camp during their third attempt to reach the North Pole. It’s something they’ve done countless times during the course of their journeys together, but on this otherwise unremarkable stretch of ice, their once-elusive goal is now within reach.   As they and the Inughuit guides unpack their supplies, tend to the dogs, and begin food prepar...