An award-winning author and photographer returns to the Arctic to document the effects of climate change.Forty years ago, the park ranger Jon Waterman took his first journey into the Alaskan Arctic, to the Noatak headwaters. He was astonished by the...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-May-2024, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: St Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9781466880153)
In this gripping memoir, the legendary explorer undertakes a death-defying solo journey around the Arctic Circle without motorized transportation.In August of 2002, Horn embarked on what would be a grueling twenty-seven-month expedition by sail and f...Daugiau...
As a U.S. Navy officer, Jack Whitehouse served aboard a World War II-era destroyer at the peak of the Vietnam War, ran special operations on a patrol gunboat out of Guantanamo Bay following the Cuban Missile Crisis and deployed with the Royal Norw...Daugiau...
As a U.S. Navy officer, Jack Whitehouse served aboard a World War II-era destroyer at the peak of the Vietnam War, ran special operations on a patrol gunboat out of Guantanamo Bay following the Cuban Missile Crisis and deployed with the Royal Norw...Daugiau...
Serija: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
(Išleidimo metai: 11-May-2021, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822988052)
Science in the Arctic changed dramatically over the course of the nineteenth century, when early, scattered attempts in the region to gather knowledge about all aspects of the natural world transitioned to a more unified Arctic science under the Firs...Daugiau...
Serija: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
(Išleidimo metai: 11-May-2021, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822988052)
Science in the Arctic changed dramatically over the course of the nineteenth century, when early, scattered attempts in the region to gather knowledge about all aspects of the natural world transitioned to a more unified Arctic science under the Firs...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Oct-2020, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780228005087)
Concern about the climate crisis is widespread as humans struggle to navigate life in uncertain times. From the vantage of a schooner full of artists on an adventure in the high Arctic, biologist Lynne Quarmby explains the science that convinced her...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Oct-2020, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780228005094)
Concern about the climate crisis is widespread as humans struggle to navigate life in uncertain times. From the vantage of a schooner full of artists on an adventure in the high Arctic, biologist Lynne Quarmby explains the science that convinced her...Daugiau...
"e;Avoid the Day truly seems to me to push nonfiction memoir as far as it can go without it collapsing into a singularity and I am at a loss for words. You are just going to have to read it."e; Helen Macdonald, author of H is for HawkA surrea...Daugiau...
When leading mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington was researching Quest for Adventure, his study of post-war adventure, he contacted Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the first person to sail single-handed and non-stop around the world, for an interview. This simp...Daugiau...
While reading this book, students will explore the scientific research underway at the Gates of the Arctic National Park. With no roads, businesses, trails, or campgrounds, this park offers scientists the opportunity to fly, hike, and raft to remote...Daugiau...
While reading this book, students will explore the scientific research underway at the Gates of the Arctic National Park. With no roads, businesses, trails, or campgrounds, this park offers scientists the opportunity to fly, hike, and raft to remote...Daugiau...
In 1960, author Larry Lee knew he needed to make a decision. A high school student in Kansas City, he had a girlfriend and some great buddies. He wasnt ready to head to college and had no idea what he wanted to do in life. With the political climate...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Jul-2015, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9781941821961)
Anna may be the smallest member of the dog team, but shes surely the most determined. In this incredible true story, Anna is picked to join a thrilling, 2,500-mile expedition across the top of the world. When the lead dog becomes lost, its up to Anna...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Jul-2015, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9781941821961)
Anna may be the smallest member of the dog team, but shes surely the most determined. In this incredible true story, Anna is picked to join a thrilling, 2,500-mile expedition across the top of the world. When the lead dog becomes lost, its up to Anna...Daugiau...
Its hardly a surprise to discover that Sam Branson has a love of adventure and a real concern about our future in a world where the climate is changing rapidly. Journeying into the heart of the Arctic wilderness with his father and a film crew, Sam...Daugiau...
Arthur Conan Doyle, Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Oct-2012, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226008868)
In 1880 a young medical student named Arthur Conan Doyle embarked upon the "e;first real outstanding adventure"e; of his life, taking a berth as ships surgeon on an Arctic whaler, the Hope. The voyage took him to unknown regions, showered hi...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 25-Oct-1994, PDF+DRM, Leidėjas: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780773564701)
Backs journal is particularly valuable because it is the only one that records the entire expedition; Franklin himself relied on it for his own published account of the journey. Both the journal and Backs earlier notes have been edited by Houston,...Daugiau...
