Download or read book Expedition Relics from High Arctic Greenland written by Peter R. Dawes and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Euro-American explorers reached northernmost Greenland in the mid-19th century. Remoteness, desolate tundra, and persistent sea ice have ensured that many historic sites from early (non-Inuit) exploration remained undisturbed by man. Moreover, as the result of the dry polar climate, the physical remains from these expeditions - even cloth, leather, and paper - are generally well preserved. The hundred and two objects registered and described in this book were discovered at thirty-two sites stretching from Baffin Bay to the Arctic Ocean. They derive from nineteen American, British and Danish expeditions of geographical discovery that reached Greenland between 1853 and 1934. Ranging from commonplace to borderline unique, the artefacts give an insight to conditions, life and mere survival on these expeditions, an insight that adds authenticity to the written annals and to a history that is truly dramatic with at least fifty men losing their lives. Beautifully illustrated with no less than 600 images comprising maps, portraits, scenes from the historic sites and superb artefact photography, this book will appeal not just to students of historical archaeology, but to all interested in the exploration of the polar regions."--
Download or read book David Goes to Greenland written by David Binney Putnam and published by New York : G.P. Putnam's. This book was released on 1926 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account by a 13 year old of his travels with the American Museum Greenland Expedition. Sketches are by the Eskimo, Kakutia. Also illustrated with photos. Suitable grades 6 and up.
Download or read book The Annual Report of the American Museum of Natural History written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way written by Colin Davey and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the building of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium, a story of history, politics, science, and exploration, including the roles of American presidents, New York power brokers, museum presidents, planetarium directors, polar and African explorers, and German rocket scientists. The American Museum of Natural History is one of New York City’s most beloved institutions, and one of the largest, most celebrated museums in the world. Since 1869, generations of New Yorkers and tourists of all ages have been educated and entertained here. Located across from Central Park, the sprawling structure, spanning four city blocks, is a fascinating conglomeration of many buildings of diverse architectural styles built over a period of 150 years. The first book to tell the history of the museum from the point of view of these buildings, including the planned Gilder Center, The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way contextualizes them within New York and American history and the history of science. Part II, “The Heavens in the Attic,” is the first detailed history of the Hayden Planetarium, from the museum’s earliest astronomy exhibits, to Clyde Fisher and the original planetarium, to Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and it features a photographic tour through the original Hayden Planetarium. Author Colin Davey spent much of his childhood literally and figuratively lost in the museum’s labyrinthine hallways. The museum grew in fits and starts according to the vicissitudes of backroom deals, personal agendas, two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Cold War. Chronicling its evolution―from the selection of a desolate, rocky, hilly, swampy site, known as Manhattan Square to the present day―the book includes some of the most important and colorful characters in the city’s history, including the notoriously corrupt and powerful “Boss” Tweed, “Father of New York City” Andrew Haswell Green, and twentieth-century powerbroker and master builder Robert Moses; museum presidents Morris K. Jesup, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and Ellen Futter; and American presidents, polar and African explorers, dinosaur hunters, and German rocket scientists. Richly illustrated with period photos, The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way is based on deep archival research and interviews.
Download or read book Building the American Museum 1869 1927 written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report American Museum of Natural History written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History for the Year written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes list of members.
Download or read book American Museum Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Physics of Glaciers written by W. S. B. Paterson and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated and expanded version of the second edition explains the physical principles underlying the behaviour of glaciers and ice sheets. The text has been revised in order to keep pace with the extensive developments which have occurred since 1981. A new chapter, of major interest, concentrates on the deformation of subglacial till. The book concludes with a chapter on information regarding past climate and atmospheric composition obtainable from ice cores.
Download or read book The Utilization of the Scientific Reports of the United States Arctic Expeditions 1850 1909 written by John Edwards Caswell and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Arctic Bibliography written by Arctic Institute of North America and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History written by American Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises articles on geology, paleontology, mammalogy, ornithology, entomology, and anthropology.
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
