Download or read book Beyond the Ice Wall written by C. Z. Vardley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEYOND the ICE WALL by C. Z. Vardley Vegetation killing virus (VKV) has escaped and is destroying civilization after 2026 and thus thinning oxygen from the atmosphere drastically. Near the end of the 24th Century mankind has long been totally dominated by a group called Ultimate Control Command (UCC). This organization has forced the reverse evolution of people until they are only tiny in body and without much spirit. They must breathe through tubes attached to backpacks, like ocean divers do today. The virus can't reproduce in ice, so the few humans still alive exist behind a high ice wall they've built across southern Alaska and Canada. A few normal sized workers are kept as slaves to maintain the ice wall, until two escape. This starts a chase involving tiny soldiers and a giant robot with polar bears as its trackers. A big flying saucer Generadmiral Schnicknalgruten Pavlich commands, while bossing and intimidating everyone, is an important feature of the story. His powers are finally challenged by a totally surprising source and the final fight for the world occurs.
Download or read book Beyond the Great South Wall The Secret of the Antarctic written by Frank Savile and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exciting adventure story, part action, part archaeological. A trail of strange coins leads to the Antarctic, where harsh weather and strange creatures create problems. Filled with danger and suspense, this classic adventure story is easy to read and fast-paced with a thrilling quest. First published in 1901, it has stood the test of time.
Download or read book Escape from Tyranny written by Dave James and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The date is June 2022 and the worldwide pandemic and lock-downs have become far worse than anyone could have possibly imagined. Mark and Lamai have been contacted by Uli, a wealthy old friend that is dying of cancer and owns a Tall Sailing Ship in Hamburg, Germany. Uli tells them he has an escape plan and to watch the 2013 Sci Fi movie Elysium, where most of the elites have residences, advanced technology, no sickness or disease and even healing pods like in the movie. Uli believes it is not up in space but most likely a small continent or group of islands in the South Pacific or even be beyond Antarctica. The adventure begins when Mark and Lamai contact a few family and friends and they all escape with Uli on the tall sailing ship and another yacht. But disaster strikes after finding a gap in the Antarctic ice wall and the second yacht is sunk by a military gunboat on the other side. So not having any choice, they navigate back through the ice wall and head up to Bocas del Toro in Panama, where Mark and two friends own some waterfront land, the intention being to set up an off grid community. However, after being shown another old map of the land Admiral Richard Byrd found very close the the Barrington Iron Republic land with many more continents between a second ice ring, Uli tells everyone he is going to make a second attempt at finding another entrance in the ice wall. Everyone was given the choice to stay on Bocas de Toro or re join the ship. On the way, they are stopped by another military ship that demands to know where they are going. They are allowed to continue but a mysterious green fog appears and they are transported to a secret ice covered dome. A high speed under ice shuttle then transports them to Asnana, an archipelago of 52 beautiful islands and another adventure begins.
Download or read book Terra Incognita written by Sara Wheeler and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. For centuries, Antarctica has captured the imagination of our greatest scientists and explorers, lingering in the spirit long after their return. Shackleton called it "the last great journey"; for Apsley Cherry-Garrard it was the worst journey in the world. This is a book about the call of the wild and the response of the spirit to a country that exists perhaps most vividly in the mind. Sara Wheeler spent seven months in Antarctica, living with its scientists and dreamers. No book is more true to the spirit of that continent--beguiling, enchanted and vast beyond the furthest reaches of our imagination. Chosen by Beryl Bainbridge and John Major as one of the best books of the year, recommended by the editors of Entertainment Weekly and the Chicago Tribune, one of the Seattle Times's top ten travel books of the year, Terra Incognita is a classic of polar literature.
Download or read book Antarctica written by Charles Swithinbank and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Worlds Beyond the Poles written by Amadeo F. Giannini and published by Health Research Books. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1959 Physical continuity of the universe. Contents: the Changing Scene; Extrasensory Perception; Connected Universe; Modern Columbus Seeks Queen Isabella; Disclosing Southern Land Corridor into the Heavens Above; Stratosphere Revelations; Journey.
Download or read book Iced in written by Chris Turney and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Christmas Eve 2013, off the coast of East Antarctica, an abrupt weather change trapped the Shokalskiy-- the ship carrying earth scientist Chris Turney and seventy-one others involved in the Australasian Antarctic Expedition--in a densely packed armada of sea ice, 1400 miles from civilization. With the ship's hull breached and steerage lost, the wind threatened to drive the vessel into the frozen continent, smashing it to pieces. If nearby floating icebergs picked up speed, they could cause a devastating collision, leaving little time to abandon ship and potentially creating an environmental disaster. The forecast offered no relief--a blizzard was headed their way.
Download or read book Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World Asia U S Geological Survey Professional Paper 1386 F written by U.S. Geological Survey and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Ice written by Gretchen Legler and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "McMurdo Station, Antarctica, is home to eighty-mile-per-hour winds, minus seventy degree temperatures, and months of near-total darkness. Sent to Antarctica as an observer, Gretchen Legler tells the story of her season spent at McMurdo Station. Populated by people from all walks of life - bankers, MBAs, therapists, carpenters, scientists, laborers, and military brass - the individuals that Legler meets have gone to Antarctica to escape everything from parking tickets to angry spouses. Hoping to get away from the complexities of her own life, Legler arrives at McMurdo Station with the intention of researching the landscape; what she finds, instead, is a zany population of people." "Part sociological study, part historiography, and part love story, On the Ice is an exploration of one of the most unexplored places on earth and the people who are drawn to it."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Before I Die written by Candy Chang and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After losing someone she loved, artist Candy Chang painted the side of an abandoned house in her New Orleans neighborhood with chalkboard paint and stenciled the sentence, "Before I die I want to _____." Within a day of the wall's completion, it was covered in colorful chalk dreams as neighbors stopped and reflected on their lives. Since then, more than four hundred Before I Die walls have been created by people all over the world. This beautiful hardcover book is an inspiring celebration of these walls and the stories behind them. Filled with hope, fear, humor, and heartbreak, Before I Die presents an intimate portrait of the dreams within our communities and a chance to ponder life's ultimate question.
Download or read book Antarctica written by David Petersen and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the history, geography, climate, and wildlife of Antarctica.
Download or read book Breaking the Ice My Personal Adventure in Antarctica written by Anthony F. Fiorentino and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is nothing to compare with what I found waiting for me at the bottom of the world!"
Download or read book Beyond the Ice Limit written by Douglas Preston and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEYOND THE ICE LIMIT That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now... With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth. Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite--the largest ever discovered--from a remote island off the coast of South America. The mission ended in disaster when their ship, the Rolvaag, foundered in a vicious storm in the Antarctic waters and broke apart, sinking-along with its unique cargo-to the ocean floor. One hundred and eight crew members perished, and Eli Glinn was left paralyzed. But this was not all. The tragedy revealed something truly terrifying: the meteorite they tried to retrieve was not, in fact, simply a rock. Instead, it was a complex organism from the deep reaches of space. Now, that organism has implanted itself in the sea bed two miles below the surface-and it is growing. If it is not destroyed, the planet will be doomed. There is only one hope: for Glinn and his team to annihilate it, a task which requires Gideon's expertise with nuclear weapons. But as Gideon and his colleagues soon discover, the "meteorite" has a mind of its own-and it has no intention of going quietly...
Download or read book Arctic Ambitions written by James K. Barnett and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prologue : Three Comments on Cook's Third Voyage / Nicholas ThomasJames Cook, Navigator and Explorer : The Pacific Experience, 1768-1776 / John GascoigneJames Cook and the Northwest Passage : Approaching the Third Voyage / Glyn WilliamsSetting the Stage : Spain in the Pacific and the Northern Voyages of the 1770s / Iris EngstrandFrom Russia with Charts : Cook and the Russians in the North Pacific / Evguenia AnichtchenkoJames Cook and the New Navigation / Richard DunnA New Look at Cook : Reflections on Sand, Ice, and His Diligent Voyage to the Arctic Ocean / David L. NicandriEncounters : View of the Indigenous People of Nootka Sound from the Cook Expedition Records / Richard InglisThe Cook Expedition and Russian Colonialism in Southern Alaska / Aron L. CrowellGifting, Trading, Selling, Buying : Following Northwest Coast Treasures Acquired on Cook's Third Voyage to Collections around the World / Adrienne L. KaepplerThe International Law of Discovery : Acts of Possession on the Northwest Coast of North America / Robert J. MillerCook on the Coasts of the North Pacific and Arctic America : The Cartographic Achievement / John RobsonNarrating an Alaskan Cruise : Aspects of Cook's Journal (1778) and Douglas?s Edition of A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1784) / I.S. MacLarenThe End of the Northern Mystery : George Vancouver's Survey of the Northwest Coast / James K. BarnettFrom Discoveries to Sovereignties : The Imperial Scramble for Northwestern North America / Barry GoughThe Continuing Quest : The Lure of the Northwest Passage in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / James P. DelgadoSea Ice in the Western Portal of the Northwest Passage from 1778 to the Twenty-first Century / Harry SternMarine Navigation in the Arctic Ocean and the Northwest Passage / Lawson W. BrighamThe Arctic in Focus : National Interests and International Cooperation / Gudrun Bucher and Robin Inglis.
Download or read book Admiral Byrd s Secret Journey Beyond the Poles written by Tim Swartz and published by . This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE CONCEPT OF A HOLLOW EARTH IS A THEORY THAT REFUSES TO DIE
Download or read book Frozen Stillness written by Erika Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With "Frozen Stillness," Erika Atkinson has captured the essence of Antarctica -- a place where everything is silent, where all living creatures live in peace and harmony with one another and their cold frozen continent. A visit to Antarctica is a journey unlike any other. Atkinson reveals the grand scale of the Southern Continent to us through words that deliver the absolute solitary experience of unearthly beauty, in stories that satisfy our yearning to see it, feel it, and hear it.
Download or read book Terra Firma 1901 written by David Wardlaw Scott and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1901 Edition.
