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 Big Dead Place written by Nicholas Johnson and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What really goes on in Antarctica?
Download or read book Your Stay at McMurdo Station Antarctica written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Southern Exposure written by Alia Sorensen and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antarctica. It is a barren wasteland with no natural human inhabitants. Its seasons wane from cold sunlit summers to frigid dark winters that no exposed life form can survive. Its lack of humidity, raging winds and sudden storms create an environment that is almost alien. Who would possibly want to live in such a hostile place? Surprisingly, there is a community of people scattered across Antarctica's icy surface. They live in research stations and field camps and work as scientists, technicians, mechanics, plumbers, cooks, dishwashers and more. Southern Exposure: A Year at McMurdo Station is about the 12 months that Alia Sorensen spent living and working in Antarctica. Filled with first-hand accounts of "life on the Ice," the work, the living conditions, the people she met and the events that held the community together, this book is a step through the looking glass into the United States Antarctic Program. It is a light-hearted, adventurous and educational journey for seasoned travelers and armchair travelers alike, as well as anyone who has ever thought of visiting Antarctica or has already been there.
Download or read book Big Dead Place written by Nicholas Johnson and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnson’s savagely funny [book] is a grunt’s-eye view of fear and loathing, arrogance and insanity in a dysfunctional, dystopian closed community. It’s like M*A*S*H on ice, a bleak, black comedy.”—The Times of London
Download or read book Polar Mariner written by Tom Woodfield and published by Whittles. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic story of true endeavour and exploration in the footsteps of the early pioneers. Navigating Antarctic seas for 20 years supporting British scientific stations, the author explored and surveyed the uncharted, ice-filled waters in often ferocious weather. Features descriptions of the majestic scenery and wildlife complemented by historical tales of exploration and seamanship.
Download or read book Blazing Ice written by John H. Wright and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Antarctic is the last vast terrestrial frontier. Just over a century ago, no one had ever seen the South Pole. Today odd machines and adventure skiers from many nations converge there every summer, arriving from numerous starting points on the Antarctic coast and returning some other way. But not until very recently has anyone completed a roundtrip from McMurdo Station, the U.S. support hub on the continental coast. The last man to try that perished in 1912. The valuable surface route from McMurdo remained elusive until John H. Wright and his crew finished the job in 2006. Blazing Ice is the story of the team of Americans who forged a thousand-mile transcontinental ôhaul routeö across Antarctica. For decades airplanes from McMurdo Station supplied the South Pole. A safe and repeatable surface haul route would have been cheaper and more environmentally benign than airlift, but the technology was not available until 2000. As Wright reveals in this gripping narrative, the hazards of Antarctic terrain and weather were as daunting for twenty-firstcentury pioneers as they were for NorwayÆs Roald Amundsen and EnglandÆs Robert Falcon Scott when they raced to be first to the South Pole in 1911û1912. Wright and his team faced deadly hidden crevasses, vast snow swamps, the Transantarctic Mountains, badlands of weird windsculpted ice, and the high Polar Plateau. Blazing Ice will appeal to Antarctic aficionados, conservationists, and adventure readers of all stripes.
Download or read book Come Here Often written by Sean Manning and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty–three of today's most esteemed writers answer the question, "What makes this bar better than all other bars?" "A reminder that no matter where you are in the world there is always a place nearby that feels like home."" —The Paris Review A neighborhood bar can become as comfortable as a second home or a memory best avoided—a wild evening half remembered and better forgotten. But what makes a particular bar special, better than the one just down the street? The answers vary considerably as writers share personal stories of drinking establishments both local and exotic. Come Here Often is an intoxicating world tour from Antarctica to New York City, Kiribati to Minnesota, to the places that have inspired—and distracted— some of our favorite contemporary writers over many years and many more drinks. Funny, smart, and poignant, this anthology is a rare opportunity to do some serious armchair drinking with Andrew W.K., Rosie Schaap, Jack Hitt, Jim Shepard, Alissa Nutting, Duff McKagan, Laura Lippman, Craig Finn, Elissa Schappell, and many more.
Download or read book Antarctic Journal of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the U S Antarctic Projects Officer written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comprehensive Characterization Report on Winter Quarters Bay McMurdo Station Antarctica written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winter Quarters Bay is a small embayment located adjacent to the United States largest base in Antarctica, McMurdo Station. McMurdo Station, which is managed by the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs, was constructed in 1955, has been in constant use since that time, and has a population of about 1,000 persons during the summer and about 250 people for the winter. The bay offers shelter for ships and an ice dock is used during January and February to off load fuel and cargo. During earlier times, trash from the McMurdo Station was piled on the steep shoreline of the bay, doused with several thousand gallons of fuel and ignited. That practice has ceased and the site has been regraded to cover the waste. The bottom of the bay is littered with drums, equipment, tanks, tires, all sorts of metal objects, cables, etc., especially the southeastern side where dumping took place. The sediments are gravel in some places yet fine and fluid at other sites with coarse particles intermixed. The original benthic community is not well recorded but significant ecological changes have occurred. Sediments are contaminated with PCBs, metals, and hydrocarbon fuels. This report summarizes available information on Winter Quarters Bay and was originally intended to be used by workshop participants to become familiar with the bay prior to becoming updated with unpublished data by various Antarctic investigators. The proposed workshop was to assist the National Science Foundation in determining whether and how the bay should be remediated and to develop an integrated research plan if additional data were needed. However, plans changed, the workshop was never conducted, but the briefing report was prepared. Most of this report reviews and summarizes other published data. The only new data are those from the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory's investigation into the distribution of organic contaminants in the bay and sediment toxicity testing.
Download or read book Support for Science Antarctica written by United States. Naval Support Force, Antarctica. History & Research Division and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Outposts of Antarctica written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 70. Chapters: Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Research stations of Antarctica, McMurdo Station, Troll, Vostok Station, SANAE IV, Rothera Research Station, Marambio Base, Davis Station, Dome C, Dome A, Palmer Station, Camp Academia, Neumayer-Station III, Villa Las Estrellas, Law-Racovi Station, Concordia Station, Antarctic field camps, Scott Base, Trinity Church, Antarctica, Halley Research Station, Artigas Base, Port-aux-Francais, European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica, Machu Picchu Base, Esperanza Base, Dome F, Plateau Station, St. Kliment Ohridski Base, Polheim, Framheim, Mawson Station, Antarctic Meteorological Research Center, Casey Station, Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva, Vernadsky Research Base, Belgrano II Base, Comandante Ferraz Brazilian Antarctic Base, King Sejong Station, Bellingshausen Station, Molodyozhnaya Station, Maitri, Little America, Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station, Byrd Station, Pole of inaccessibility, Fossil Bluff, Antarctic Automatic Weather Stations Project, Dumont d'Urville Station, Uruguayan Antarctic Institute, Ellsworth Station, Base Aerea Teniente Benjamin Matienzo, Wilkes Station, Jinnah Antarctic Station, St. Ivan Rilski Chapel, Base General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme, Teniente Luis Carvajal Villaroel Antarctic Base, Signy Research Station, Orcadas Base, Gonzalez Videla Antarctic Base, Progress Station, Princess Elisabeth Base, Juan Carlos I Antarctic Base, Kohnen Station, Vanda Station, Risopatron Base, Macquarie Island Station, Lower Erebus Hut, Patriot Hills, Sky Blu, Antarctic Zhongshan Station, Captain Arturo Prat Base, Mirny Station, Antarctic Great Wall Station, Russkaya Station, Siple Station, Novolazarevskaya Station, Jubany, Petrel Base, Maldonado Base, San Martin Base, Leningradskaya Station, Union Glacier Camp, Showa Station, Base Decepcion, ...
Download or read book Survival in Antarctica written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manual for survival of emergency situations (blizzard, accident, fire, etc.) during travel and scientific work in Antarctica.
Download or read book Survival in Antarctica written by National Science Foundation (U.S.). Division of Polar Programs and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the U S Antarctic Projects Officer written by United States. Antarctic Projects Office and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A McMurdo Station Antarctica Climatology with Special Emphasis on Fog written by Matthew A. Lazzara and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
