Download or read book Exploration of inland Ice written by Fritz Loewe and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond The Edge II written by Gerald W. Johnson and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly two thousand years, men and women have sought to find Ultima Thule--the world's northernmost piece of land. Here is the story of the search for this unique and mysterious place, told by someone who has himself looked out upon this legendary vista.
Download or read book Northward Over the great Ice written by Robert Edwin Peary and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Into the Ice written by Lynn Curlee and published by . This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Far North has always been a place of mystery. Alien & wild, it has the powerful allure of the unknown, a call explorers have heeded for hundreds of years. First came the search for a route through the polar ice cap to the rich lands of Asia. The Northeast & Northwest Passages were painstakingly traced. Then the race was on to one of the remotest points on earth -- the North Pole. The desire for knowledge, wealth, adventure, & fame fueled expedition after expedition. Some arctic explorers met with success & celebrity; others found madness & death; while a few simply disappeared, never to be seen again. This book traces the slow unveiling of the secrets of this frozen region, a majestic place that has been traveled but never tamed. Full-color illus.
Download or read book The Ice at the End of the World written by Jon Gertner and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change. As Greenland's ice melts and runs off into the sea, it not only threatens to affect hundreds of millions of people who live in coastal areas. It will also have drastic effects on ocean currents, weather systems, economies, and migration patterns
Download or read book The First Crossing of Greenland written by Fridtjof Nansen and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Storied Ice written by Joan N. Boothe and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts mankind's dramatic history from Magellan through the first years of the twenty-first century in the part of the Antarctic regions below South America and the Atlantic Ocean. This part of the world, by far the most visited portion of the south polar regions, is not only a place of staggering scenic beauty and amazing wildlife, but also a locale with a long and fascinating human history.
Download or read book The First Crossing of Greenland written by Fridtjof Nansen and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of the expedition that made the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888.
Download or read book American Explorations in the Ice Zones written by Joseph Everett Nourse and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the II Thule Expedition for the Exploration of Greenland written by Knud Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ice and the Inland written by Brigid Hains and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elegant, original and very well written book, luminous with meaning, full of superb cameos and suggestive arguments ... the central figures are both charismatic, articulate and iconic: they are central to any estimation of twentieth-century Australian cultural and environmental history.-Dr Tom Griffiths, Australian National University This is a path-breaking work ... the environmental aspect of the work is powerful, and there are some wonderful ideas about what is 'civilised' and what is 'wilderness'. Brigid Hains has reinvigorated the tradition of 'frontier studies'. -Dr Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa The frontier mythology of the early twentieth century laid the groundwork for the wilderness cult of contemporary Australian life. It became etched in the Australian imagination through the image of folk heroes such as Douglas Mawson and John Flynn, promising national renewal through virile heroism and an encounter with 'wild' nature. Most frontier histories in Australia have focused on race relations; this is among the first to focus on the frontier as an ecological phenomenon. It draws on rich primary sources, many of which have never been published, including Antarctic diaries, and the letters and journalism of John Flynn. In this superb account Brigid Hains offers: -a new interpretation of two Australian folk heroes and their iconic status in Australian culture -a fresh approach to frontier history that focuses on the landscape rather than on racial conflict, and -an explanation of the origins of wilderness conservation in Australia. Mawson's Antarctic exploration and Flynn's Australian Inland Mission both drew on imperial and trans-Pacific influences, such as imperial adventure literature, the cult of polar exploration, the rural life movement, population theory and eugenics. The Ice and the Inland compares these two Australian folk heroes and analyses the reasons for their popularity. It raises a number of topical issues, including the role of Australia in the international management of Antarctica; Flynn's treatment of Aboriginal people; the reasons for conservation of Australia's wild places, from the arid Centre to the frozen wastes of Antarctica; and relationships between the country and the bush, and between the metropolis and the frontier.
Download or read book Those Astounding Ice Ages written by Dolph Earl Hooker and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Across Greenland s Ice fields written by Mary Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nansen's crossing in 1888 and Peary's north Greenland expedition in 1891-92.
Download or read book Lines in the Ice written by Philip J. Hatfield and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2014 discovery of HMS Erebus - a ship lost during Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage - reignited popular, economic, and political interest in the Arctic’s exploration, history, anthropology, and historical geography. Lines in the Ice investigates the allure of the North through topographical views, maps, explorers’ diaries, and historic photographs. Following the course of major journeys to the Arctic, including those of Martin Frobisher, Henry Hudson, and John Franklin, Philip Hatfield assesses the impact of these incursions on the North’s numerous indigenous communities and reveals the role of exploration in making the modern world. Besides detailing the area’s vivid history, Lines in the Ice also focuses on beautiful works created over the last 500 years by people who live and travel in the Arctic. Lavishly illustrated with reproductions of items rarely seen outside of the British Library, this volume meditates on humans’ relationships with the Arctic at a time when climate change poses a catastrophic threat to the peoples and ecosystems of this enigmatic region. A timely work that traces the past’s influence on the present day, Lines in the Ice showcases the rich visual history of Arctic exploration, indigenous cultural works, and the longstanding ways in which the North has captivated the public.
Download or read book The Lands of Silence written by Sir Clements Robert Markham and published by Cambridge : The University Press. This book was released on 1921 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lands of Silence, A History of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration by Clements Robert Markham, first published in 1921, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Download or read book Northward Over the Great Ice written by Robert E. Peary and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1898, Robert Peary's two-volume memoir of Arctic exploration recounts his early expeditions in Greenland.
Download or read book Lands that Hold One Spellbound written by Spencer Apollonio and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an history of East Greenland. This book summarises indigenous settlements over four millennia and describes European explorations since the Norse. It recounts each of the European and American expeditions, relying on the explorers' original accounts, as well as on the author's narration.
