Download or read book Poles Of Inaccessibility written by Paris Ezequiel Bianco and published by Paris Ezequiel Bianco. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Title: Poles Of Inaccessibility Subtitle: Exploring The Unexplored Table of Contents I. FUNDAMENTALS 1. Concept of Pole of Inaccessibility 2. Importance of Distance to Mainland 3. Geographic Factors 4. Climatic Factors 5. Extreme Conditions II. EXPLORATION 6. Nevada, United States 7. Simpson Desert 8. The Gobi Desert 9. The Amazon Region of Brazil 10. The Sahara of Niger 11. Arctic Characteristics 12. Continental Challenges 13. Antarctic Characteristics 14. Antarctic Inaccessibility III. DIVERSITY 15. Chimborazo Volcano 16. Mount Chimborazo 17. Atacama Desert 18. Other Criteria 19. Krubera-Voronya Cave IV. GEOGRAPHY 20. Impact of Land Topography 21. Geographic Obstacles 22. Point Nemo 23. Ocean Challenges 24. Arctic Variability V. FUTURE 25. Exploration Of Other Celestial Bodies 26. Emerging Technological Innovations 27. The Future of Exploration

Download or read book Introduction to Data Technologies written by Paul Murrell and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-02-23 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing key information on how to work with research data, Introduction to Data Technologies presents ideas and techniques for performing critical, behind-the-scenes tasks that take up so much time and effort yet typically receive little attention in formal education. With a focus on computational tools, the book shows readers how to improve thei

Download or read book 33 Extremes on Earth written by Authors of Wikipedia and published by Masterlab. This book was released on with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read about most extreme places on our planet. Highest, longest, hottest and coldest, most remote and most populated... What is a deepest hole in a surface of Earth? Where is a most distant location? How old is the oldest place? Where is the place, where no explorer has set foot? Read about 33 Extremes on Earth.

Download or read book How to Get to the North Pole written by Tim Moss and published by How To Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by seasoned adventurer Tim Moss, comprehensive chapters take you through the details of each challenge or journey. If you're rowing an ocean where do you sleep at night? How do you go to the loo at sea? If you are cycling round the world precisely what difficulties will you face and how will you overcome them.

Download or read book Geography Magic Discovering Earth s Unique Places written by George Phila and published by George Phila. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geography Magic: Discovering Earth's Unique Places invites young readers on an exciting adventure to explore 26 extraordinary geographical wonders around the world. From the towering peaks of Mount Everest and the vibrant underwater world of the Great Barrier Reef to the surreal Salar de Uyuni salt flats and the thundering Victoria Falls, each location offers a unique glimpse into Earth's beauty. Discover the changing colors of Uluru (Ayers Rock), float effortlessly in the Dead Sea, and explore the lush Amazon Rainforest. Journey along the legendary Nile River and walk the ancient paths of the Great Wall of China. Experience the vast sand dunes of the Sahara Desert and the colossal chasm of the Grand Canyon. Marvel at Turkey's white terraces in Pamukkale, Africa’s highest peak Mount Kilimanjaro, and China’s colorful Danxia Landforms. Navigate Norway's stunning fjords, Ecuador's unique Galápagos Islands, and Belize's deep Great Blue Hole. Encounter New Zealand's mysterious Moeraki Boulders, Botswana's lush Okavango Delta, and the remote Poles of Inaccessibility. Explore Australia’s Bungle Bungle Range, Turkmenistan's fiery Door to Hell, Russia’s deep Lake Baikal, and the tropical paradise of the Maldives. Finally, walk through the stunning Antelope Canyon and Greece’s ancient Meteora monasteries. Geography Magic captivates young minds with breathtaking illustrations and fascinating facts, inspiring a love for the planet’s diverse and magnificent landscapes. "Geography Magic" is not just about exploring Earth's wonders, but also about understanding the significance of conservation. With simple tips and inspiring messages, this book encourages kids to become guardians of our planet. Perfect for curious minds and budding adventurers, "Geography Magic: Discovering Earth's Unique Places" is an educational treasure that will inspire a lifelong love of geography and nature. Join us in discovering the magic of our world and see Earth like never before!

Download or read book Exploring Polar Frontiers 2 volumes written by William James Mills and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-12-11 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the entire history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration, from the voyage of Pytheas ca. 325 B.C. to the present, in one convenient, comprehensive reference resource. Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia is the only reference work that provides a comprehensive history of polar exploration from the ancient period through the present day. The author is a noted polar scholar and offers dramatic accounts of all major explorers and their expeditions, together with separate exploration histories for specific islands, regions, and uncharted waters. He presents a wealth of fascinating information under a variety of subject entries including methods of transport, myths, achievements, and record-breaking activities. By approaching polar exploration biographically, geographically, and topically, Mills reveals a number of intriguing connections between the various explorers, their patrons and times, and the process of discovery in all areas of the polar regions. Furthermore, he provides the reader with a clear understanding of the intellectual climate as well as the dominant social, economic, and political forces surrounding each expedition. Readers will learn why the journeys were undertaken, not just where, when, and how.

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Download or read book Nineteenth Century Travels Explorations and Empires Part I Vol 1 written by Peter J Kitson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.

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Download or read book South Pole written by Elizabeth Leane and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of two points where the Earth’s axis meets its surface, the South Pole should be a precisely defined place. But as Elizabeth Leane shows in this book, conceptually it is a place of paradoxes. An invisible spot on a high, featureless ice plateau, the Pole has no obvious material value, yet it is a highly sought-after location, and reaching it on foot is one of the most extreme adventures an explorer can undertake. The Pole is, as Leane shows, a deeply imagined place, and a place of politics, where a series of national claims converge. Leane details the important challenges that the South Pole poses to humanity, asking what it can teach us about ourselves and our relationship with our planet. She examines its allure for explorers such as Robert F. Scott and Roald Amundsen, not to mention the myriad writers and artists who have attempted to capture its strange, inhospitable blankness. She considers the Pole’s advantages for climatologists and other scientists as well as the absurdities and banalities of human interaction with this place. Ranging from the present all the way back to the ancient Greeks, she offers a fascinating—and lavishly illustrated—story about one of the strangest and most important places on Earth.

Download or read book Tender Maps written by Alice Maddicott and published by September Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Of all the places where I feel the translucency of things, places that are thin for me, bluebell woods are first among them.' Some travellers are driven by the need to scale a natural wonder, or to see a city's sights or a place of history. Others, like Alice Maddicott, travel in search of a particular scene, feeling or atmosphere, often inspired by music, literature and art. Taking us deep into our emotional and creative responses to place, this extraordinary book explores the author's relentless travelling, from the heat of Sicily to the mountains of Japan. With her uniquely lyrical approach to psycho-geography, Maddicott explores the relationship with landscape that is the very essence of human creativity. From seventeenth-century salons of Paris to the underground culture and crumbling balconies of modern Tbilisi, through writers as diverse as Italo Calvino and L. M. Montgomery and artists like Ana Mendieta and eighteenth-century girls embroidering their lives, Tender Maps is a beautifully evocative book of travel, culture and imagination that transports readers in time and place. 'A rich and beguiling work of literary travel memoir that nimbly tracks the wider contours of the world in terms of feeling, memory, introspection and the imagination.' - Travis Elborough, author of Atlas of Vanishing Places

Download or read book The Long and the Short of It written by Graeme Donald and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We've always measured the world around us, from how big things are, to how fast they go, how much they're worth and practically everything in between. But who decided how we do it, and why?

Download or read book North Pole written by Michael Bravo and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North Pole has long held surprising importance for many of the world’s cultures. Interweaving science and history, this book offers the first unified vision of how the North Pole has shaped everything from literature to the goals of political leaders—from Alexander the Great to neo-Hindu nationalists. Tracing the intersecting notions of poles, polarity, and the sacred from our most ancient civilizations to the present day, Michael Bravo explores how the idea of a North Pole has given rise to utopias, satires, fantasies, paradoxes, and nationalist ideologies across every era, from the Renaissance to the Third Reich. The Victorian conceit of the polar regions as a vast empty wilderness—a bastion of adventurous white males battling against the elements—is far from the only polar vision. Bravo paints a variety of alternative pictures: of a habitable Arctic crisscrossed by densely connected networks of Inuit trade and travel routes, a world rich in indigenous cultural meanings; of a sacred paradise or lost Eden among both Western and Eastern cultures, a vision that curiously (and conveniently) dovetailed with the imperial aspirations of Europe and the United States; and as the setting for tales not only of conquest and redemption, but also of failure and catastrophe. And as we face warming temperatures, melting ice, and rising seas, Bravo argues, only an understanding of the North Pole’s deeper history, of our conception of it as both a sacred and living place, can help humanity face its twenty-first-century predicament.

Download or read book Poles Apart written by Jeanne Willis and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everybody knows that penguins live at the South Pole and polar bears live at the North Pole. But what would happen if, one day, an adventurous family of penguins took a wrong turn and ended up at the North Pole?"--Back cover.

Download or read book Metaphysics of Children s Literature written by Lisa Sainsbury and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphysics of Children's Literature is the first sustained study of ways in which children's literature confronts metaphysical questions about reality and the nature of what there is in the world. In its exploration of something and nothing, this book identifies a number of metaphysical structures in texts for young people-such as the ontological exchange or nowhere in extremis-demonstrating that their entanglement with the workings of reality is unique to the conditions of children's literature. Drawing on contemporary children's literature discourse and metaphysicians from Heidegger and Levinas, to Bachelard, Sartre and Haraway, Lisa Sainsbury reveals the metaphysical groundwork of children's literature. Authors and illustrators covered include: Allan and Janet Ahlberg, Mac Barnett, Ron Brooks, Peter Brown, Lewis Carroll, Eoin Colfer, Gary Crew, Roald Dahl, Roddy Doyle, Imme Dros, Sarah Ellis, Mem Fox, Zana Fraillon, Libby Gleeson, Kenneth Grahame, Armin Greder, Sonya Hartnett, Tana Hoban, Judy Horacek, Tove Jansson, Oliver Jeffers, Jon Klassen, Elaine Konigsburg, Norman Lindsay, Geraldine McCaughrean, Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris, Edith Nesbit, Mary Norton, Jill Paton Walsh, Philippa Pearce, Ivan Southall, William Steig, Shaun Tan, Tarjei Vesaas, David Wiesner, Margaret Wild, Jacqueline Woodson and many others.

Download or read book A Jurisprudence of Movement written by Olivia Barr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law moves, whether we notice or not. Set amongst a spatial turn in the humanities, and jurisprudence more specifically, this book calls for a greater attention to legal movement, in both its technical and material forms. Despite various ways the spatial turn has been taken up in legal thought, questions of law, movement and its materialities are too often overlooked. This book addresses this oversight, and it does so through an attention to the materialities of legal movement. Paying attention to how law moves across different colonial and contemporary spaces, this book reveals there is a problem with common law’s place. Primarily set in the postcolonial context of Australia – although ranging beyond this nationalised topography, both spatially and temporally – this book argues movement is fundamental to the very terms of common law’s existence. How, then, might we move well? Explored through examples of walking and burial, this book responds to the challenge of how to live with a contemporary form of colonial legal inheritance by arguing we must take seriously the challenge of living with law, and think more carefully about its spatial productions, and place-making activities. Unsettling place, this book returns the question of movement to jurisprudence.

Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to the Arctic and Antarctic written by Jack Williams and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now armchair adventurers can find out about the physical, geological, and climatological conditions of the poles; their unique flora, fauna, and human inhabitants; the history of the greatest polar expeditions, the exciting scientific research being conducted there, and what changing climate conditions might mean to the future of this vast and fascinating realm.