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Book Mystery in the Frozen Lands

Download or read book Mystery in the Frozen Lands written by Martyn Godfrey and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 2, 1857, 14-year-old Peter Griffin and twenty-five other men climbed aboard the refitted yacht, FOX, and set sail for the frozen lands of the Arctic sea. Their mission? To find out, once and for all, what had really happened to Sir John Franklin and his crew of 128 men. Twelve years earlier, Sir John had sailed from England to complete the search for the Northwest passage through the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific. Mysteriously, Franklin and his whole expedition had disappeared without a trace. And now Peter Griffin was going to the Arctic to help solve this mystery. In his journal, Peter makes his Arctic adventures come to life - the long, dark days cooped up on board the ship, the dangers ever present in the forbidding, icy landscape, the sadness he and his companions experience as they come closer to realising the ultimate end of Franklin and his men. In Mystery in the Frozen Lands Martyn Godfrey has written an original and intriguing story. Drawing on historical writings, Godfrey tells a tale that is gripping, moving, and absolutely real.

Book Seek the Frozen Lands

Download or read book Seek the Frozen Lands written by Frank Nugent and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High on any list of Polar explorers would be the names Crozier, McClintock, McClure and Shackleton. But how many know they were all Irish? Seek the Frozen Lands unveils an array of Irish heroes largely unknown in modern Ireland. The sage begins with Edward Bransfield, who made one of the first sightings of the Antarctic in 1820. The story ends with the heroic age of Antarctic exploration and the burial of Shackleton in 1922 in South Georgia. Truly a story of heroism, drama and tragedy. * Similar to: Tom Crean – An Unsung Hero, Captain Francis Crozier – Last Man Standing?, Everest Calling, Ger McDonnell: His Life and His Death on K2.

Book The Great Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : Derek Lambert
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN : 9780553113907
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book The Great Land written by Derek Lambert and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mystery in the Frozen Lands

Download or read book Mystery in the Frozen Lands written by Martyn Godfrey and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1857, and teenager Peter Griffin joins a sea mission to solve a world-famous mystery: what really happened to arctic explorer Sir John Franklin. Franklin and his crew of 128 men had sailed from England twelve years earlier in search of the Northwest Passage, a sea route through the Arctic between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Mysteriously, the entire Franklin expedition disappeared without a trace. Based on true events and real people, Peter's fictional first-person account brings this Arctic adventure to new life. His journal details the long, dark days cooped up on board the ship, the ever-present dangers lurking in the forbidding, icy landscape, and the sadness that he and his shipmates experience as they come closer to realizing the ultimate end of Franklin and his men. In his introduction, Ken McGoogan provides readers with background on the dramatic 2014 discovery of the wreck of Franklin's HMS Erebus and connects these events to the story of the 1857 expedition. [Fry reading level - 2.7

Book Ice Ship

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles W. Johnson
  • Publisher : ForeEdge from University Press of New England
  • Release : 2014-10-07
  • ISBN : 1611686040
  • Pages : 335 pages

Download or read book Ice Ship written by Charles W. Johnson and published by ForeEdge from University Press of New England. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the golden age of polar exploration (from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s), many an expedition set out to answer the big questionÑwas the Arctic a continent, an open ocean beyond a barrier of ice, or an ocean covered with ice? No one knew, for the ice had kept its secret well; ships trying to penetrate it all failed, often catastrophically. NorwayÕs charismatic scientist-explorer Fridtjof Nansen, convinced that it was a frozen ocean, intended to prove it in a novel if risky way: by building a ship capable of withstanding the ice, joining others on an expedition, then drifting wherever it took them, on a relentless one-way journey into discovery and fame . . . or oblivion. Ice Ship is the story of that extraordinary ship, the Fram, from conception to construction, through twenty years of three epic expeditions, to its final resting place as a museum. It is also the story of the extraordinary men who steered the Fram over the course of 84,000 miles: on a three-year, ice-bound drift, finding out what the Arctic really was; in a remarkable four-year exploration of unmapped lands in the vast Canadian Arctic; and on a twoÐyear voyage to Antarctica, where another famous Norwegian explorer, Roald Amundsen, claimed the South Pole. Ice Ship will appeal to all those fascinated with polar exploration, maritime adventure, and wooden ships, and will captivate readers of such books as The Endurance, In the Heart of the Sea, and The Last Place on Earth. With more than 100 original photographs, the book brings the Fram to life and light.

Book Encyclopedia of the Arctic

Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Arctic written by Mark Nuttall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-23 with total page 2306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With detailed essays on the Arctic's environment, wildlife, climate, history, exploration, resources, economics, politics, indigenous cultures and languages, conservation initiatives and more, this Encyclopedia is the only major work and comprehensive reference on this vast, complex, changing, and increasingly important part of the globe. Including 305 maps. This Encyclopedia is not only an interdisciplinary work of reference for all those involved in teaching or researching Arctic issues, but a fascinating and comprehensive resource for residents of the Arctic, and all those concerned with global environmental issues, sustainability, science, and human interactions with the environment.

Book In the Land of the Romanovs

Download or read book In the Land of the Romanovs written by Anthony Cross and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2014-04-27 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of more than three centuries of Romanov rule in Russia, foreign visitors and residents produced a vast corpus of literature conveying their experiences and impressions of the country. The product of years of painstaking research by one of the world’s foremost authorities on Anglo-Russian relations, In the Lands of the Romanovs is the realization of a major bibliographical project that records the details of over 1200 English-language accounts of the Russian Empire. Ranging chronologically from the accession of Mikhail Fedorovich in 1613 to the abdication of Nicholas II in 1917, this is the most comprehensive bibliography of first-hand accounts of Russia ever to be published. Far more than an inventory of accounts by travellers and tourists, Anthony Cross’s ambitious and wide-ranging work includes personal records of residence in or visits to Russia by writers ranging from diplomats to merchants, physicians to clergymen, gardeners to governesses, as well as by participants in the French invasion of 1812 and in the Crimean War of 1854-56. Providing full bibliographical details and concise but informative annotation for each entry, this substantial bibliography will be an invaluable tool for anyone with an interest in contacts between Russia and the West during the centuries of Romanov rule.

Book The New International Encyclop  dia

Download or read book The New International Encyclop dia written by Daniel Coit Gilman and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ibis

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1895
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 602 pages

Download or read book The Ibis written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spectator

Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New International Encyclopaedia

Download or read book The New International Encyclopaedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nature

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1895
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 920 pages

Download or read book Nature written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Congressional Record

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1914
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1296 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Man  Past and Present

Download or read book Man Past and Present written by A. H. Keane and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text of this book very much reflects the times in which it was written, namely the colonial times. It was published in 1920 and orders humanity by racial categorisation and classification. The culture, geographical location, physiology and temperament are used to come to conclusions about the innate characteristics of the subject group. It will be of great interest to those studying the anthropology of the colonial period.

Book Frozen Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jan Reynolds
  • Publisher : Harcourt Childrens Books
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780152387884
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Frozen Land written by Jan Reynolds and published by Harcourt Childrens Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the traditional ways of life of an Inuit family living in the Canadian Northwest Territories and some of the changes they have had to face.