Download or read book Journey Across the Inland Ice of Greenland from East to West With a Map written by Fridtjof Nansen and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 The Inland Ice of Greenland written by Robert Edwin Peary and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Altitudes on the Inland Ice in North Greenland written by W. S. B. Paterson and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ice at the End of the World written by Jon Gertner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change “Jon Gertner takes readers to spots few journalists or even explorers have visited. The result is a gripping and important book.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The Christian Science Monitor • Library Journal Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet that covers it is 700 miles wide and 1,500 miles long, and is composed of nearly three quadrillion tons of ice. For the last 150 years, explorers and scientists have sought to understand Greenland—at first hoping that it would serve as a gateway to the North Pole, and later coming to realize that it contained essential information about our climate. Locked within this vast and frozen white desert are some of the most profound secrets about our planet and its future. Greenland’s ice doesn’t just tell us where we’ve been. More urgently, it tells us where we’re headed. In The Ice at the End of the World, Jon Gertner explains how Greenland has evolved from one of earth’s last frontiers to its largest scientific laboratory. The history of Greenland’s ice begins with the explorers who arrived here at the turn of the twentieth century—first on foot, then on skis, then on crude, motorized sleds—and embarked on grueling expeditions that took as long as a year and often ended in frostbitten tragedy. Their original goal was simple: to conquer Greenland’s seemingly infinite interior. Yet their efforts eventually gave way to scientists who built lonely encampments out on the ice and began drilling—one mile, two miles down. Their aim was to pull up ice cores that could reveal the deepest mysteries of earth’s past, going back hundreds of thousands of years. Today, scientists from all over the world are deploying every technological tool available to uncover the secrets of this frozen island before it’s too late. 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. Gertner chronicles the unfathomable hardships, amazing discoveries, and scientific achievements of the Arctic’s explorers and researchers with a transporting, deeply intelligent style—and a keen sense of what this work means for the rest of us. The melting ice sheet in Greenland is, in a way, an analog for time. It contains the past. It reflects the present. It can also tell us how much time we might have left.

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 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Characteristics of the Inland ice of the Arctic Regions written by William Herbert Hobbs and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Greenland Icefields and Life in the North Atlantic written by George Frederick Wright and published by London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner. This book was released on 1896 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes excursion to Greenland in 1894 with Dr. F.A. Cook, with observations on land and sea ice, peoples, plants and animals. Discusses Pleistocene glaciation and its causes. (AB 19714).

Download or read book A Reconnaissance of the Greenland Inland Ice written by Robert Edwin Peary and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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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 603 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 Frozen Annals written by W. Dansgaard and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book One Hundred Years of Crossings of Greenland s Inland Ice written by Gunnar Jensen and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Plan of a Glaciological Summer Expedition to the Inland Ice of Greenland written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: