Download or read book The Geographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Download or read book The Elite written by D.J. Wilson and published by WrittenWord Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two kinds of people in this world: the colonists that immigrated to Earth first and those that followed them. Something happened to those first immigrants, no one knows what, but they were changed. The biological changes were subtle except their lifespan was dramatically shortened to something like seventy or eighty years and they procreated at a ridiculously high rate. The psychological changes were more dramatic. They warred with each other. They fought each other for dominance. They had this strange compulsion to hoard things. The most notable change, though, was that they had forgotten nearly all of the philosophical and scientific knowledge accumulated over millennia. To say their technology was crude would be an understatement. They lived like animals. It made things difficult for those that came later. At first they made no effort to hide the differences. They used technology openly. But the colonists reacted strangely. They either thought those later immigrants were gods and started worshipping them or they thought they were demons and tried to kill them. Eventually, the later immigrants 'went underground' and formed a human subculture that has stood for tens of thousands of years. We, those first immigrants, know them simply as 'the elite'. The elite have spent millennia reeducating us and reintroducing us to technology. Some of the elite think they have gone as far as they should. To reveal the final secrets would be more than we could handle. Others believe that if the final secrets are not revealed, the earth's environment will be destroyed. The battle lines are drawn. Unfortunately, those battle lines cut straight through the lives of Clayton Jeffries and Kate Young - unknowing innocents that simply want to know what happened to his daughters and her brother. The answer will change them...and the world forever.
Download or read book Ocean written by and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-21 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breathtaking, powerful, and all-encompassing in its sheer scope and visual impact, Ocean sweeps you away on an incredible journeyinto the depths of our astonishing marine world. As the site where life first formed on Earth, a key element of the climate, and a fragile resource, oceans areof vital importance to our planet. This is a definitive visual guide to the world's oceans - including the geological and physical processes that affectthe ocean floor, the key habitat zones, the rich diversity of marine life.
Download or read book On the Edge written by Roger McCoy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With our access to Google Maps, Global Positioning Systems, and Atlases that cover all regions and terrains and tell us precisely how to get from one place to another, we tend to forget there was ever a time when the world was unknown and uncharted--a mystery waiting to be solved. In On the Edge, Roger McCoy tells the captivating--and often harrowing--story of the 400 year effort to map North America's Coasts. Much of the book is based on the narratives of mariners who sought a passage through the continent to Asia and produced maps as a byproduct of their journeys. These courageous explorers had to rely on the most rudimentary mapping tools and to contend with unimaginably harsh conditions: ship-crushing ice floes; the threat of frostbite, scurvy, and starvation; gold fever and mutiny; ice that could lock them in for months on end; and, inevitably, the failure to find the elusive Northwest passage. Telling the story from the explorers' perspective, McCoy allows readers to see how maps of their voyages were made and why they were so full of errors, as well as how they gradually acquired greater accuracy, especially after the longitude problem was solved. On the Edge tracks the dramatic voyages of John Cabot, John Davis, Captain Cook, Henry Hudson, Martin Frobisher, John Franklin (who nearly starved to death and become known in England as "the man who ate his boots"), and others, concluding with Robert Peary, Otto Sverdrup, and Vihjalmur Steffanson in the early twentieth century. Drawing upon diaries, journals, and other primary sources--and including a set of maps charting the progress of exploration over time--On the Edge shows exactly how we came to know the shape of our continent.
Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Friendly Arctic written by Vilhjalmur Stefansson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geology of Lougheed Island and Nearby Small Islands District of Franklin parts of 69C 79D written by H. R. Balkwill and published by Geological Survey of Canada. This book was released on 1982 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report, based on the field work carried out in 1976, presents surface and subsurface data and interpretations for the thick Mesozoic rock succession of the Lougheed Island area and describes their stratigraphy in relation to the succession at King Christian Island and Sabine Peninsula.
Download or read book Toward the Poles written by James Edward Cohn and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cumulative Decision List United States Board on Geographic Names written by United States Board on Geographic Names and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annotated Bibliography of Quaternary Vertebrates of Northern North America written by Donna Naughton and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on highlights (species mentioned, locality, geological age, stratigraphic positions, etc.) of nearly 1000 items published between 1821 and 2000, dealing with the remains of vertebrates that lived from about 2 million to 5000 years ago.
Download or read book Problems of Polar Research written by American Geographical Society of New York and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ways and means of polar exploration and problems needing further study
Download or read book Special Publication written by American Geographical Society of New York and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Dangerous Passage written by Gerard I. Kenney and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2006-05-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the opening up of the Northwest Passage and the ensuing potential risks to the Arctic environment and Canadian sovereignty are explored.
Download or read book Report of the Superintendent of the U S Coast and Geodetic Survey Showing the Progress of the Work During the Fiscal Year Ending with written by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
