Download or read book Ultima Thule written by Jean Malaurie and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ultima Thule" is the terrible and yet fantastic story of European and American exploration in the polar north. The book brings to life both sides of the clash that arose when white men arrived in the Far North. Heavily illustrated with period photos, engravings, artifacts, and drawings. 650 photos.
Download or read book Ultima Thule written by Vilhjalmur Stefansson and published by Librorium Editions. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pytheas, around whom centers the question of Thule, was considered for two thousand years the champion liar of antiquity. After perhaps the most overdue of rehabilitations, he is now in our books and belief an outstanding leader in Greek science and a foremost explorerthe earliest of the known great explorers. If he appears to us less than Columbus in some ways he appears greater in others, particularly as a scientist. He has been referred to as a Columbus with a flavor of Darwin; he appears to have been more nearly a composite of James Cook and Galileo.
Download or read book Ultima Thule written by Davis McCombs and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This year’s winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Davis McCombs’s Ultima Thule, which was acclaimed as “a book of exploration, of searching regard.... a grave, attentive holding of a light” by the contest judge, the distinguished poet W. S. Merwin. The poems are set above and below the Cave Country of south central Kentucky, where McCombs lives and which is home to thousands of caves. The book is framed by two sonnet sequences, the first about a slave guide and explorer at Mammoth Cave in the mid-1800s and the second about McCombs’s experiences as a guide and park ranger there in the 1990s. Other poems deal with Mammoth Cave’s four- thousand-year human history and the thrills of crawling into tight, rarely visited passageways to see what lies beyond. Often the poems search for oblique angles into personal experience, and the caves and the landscape they create form a personal geology.
Download or read book Ultima Thule written by Denise Bell and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the intricate cockleshell and birdseye stitches that constitute the airy Sky and Sea scarf, to the original fish motif of the Kishie Shawl; from the hearty practicality of the Lerwick Harbour Hap, to the elegant Voe Cowl, and to the vine, stone wall, and bumblebee motifs of the ambitious Kailyard Pi Shawl, Ultima Thule is a tribute to the northernmost point of Scotland, the Shetland Islands.Designer Denise Bell offers a range of patterns, from exquisite lace to sturdy garter stitch, all specifying either her own hand dyed yarns from Lost City Knits or from Jamieson and Smith Wool Brokers of Shetland.Photographer and essayist Chris Dykes offers a glimpse of Shetland's remarkable scenery and shares some of his encounters with lifelong Shetlanders.
Download or read book Ultima Thule written by Richard Francis Burton and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 428 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 Ultima Thule written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Independent People written by Halldor Laxness and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author: a magnificent novel that recalls Iceland's medieval epics and classics, set in the early twentieth century starring an ordinary sheep farmer and his heroic determination to achieve independence. • "A strange story, vibrant and alive…. There is a rare beauty in its telling." —Atlantic Monthly If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to free himself is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic. Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity and intimate in its homely detail. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, Independent People is a masterpiece.
Download or read book Chasing New Horizons written by Alan Stern and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "spellbinding" (Scientific American) and "thrilling...a future classic of popular science" (PW), the up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons’ mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players. On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour, focusing its instruments on the long mysterious icy worlds of the Pluto system, and then, just as quickly, continued on its journey out into the beyond. Nothing like this has occurred in a generation—a raw exploration of new worlds unparalleled since NASA’s Voyager missions to Uranus and Neptune—and nothing quite like it is planned to happen ever again. The photos that New Horizons sent back to Earth graced the front pages of newspapers on all 7 continents, and NASA’s website for the mission received more than 2 billion hits in the days surrounding the flyby. At a time when so many think that our most historic achievements are in the past, the most distant planetary exploration ever attempted not only succeeded in 2015 but made history and captured the world’s imagination. How did this happen? Chasing New Horizons is the story of the men and women behind this amazing mission: of their decades-long commitment and persistence; of the political fights within and outside of NASA; of the sheer human ingenuity it took to design, build, and fly the mission; and of the plans for New Horizons’ next encounter, 1 billion miles past Pluto in 2019. Told from the insider’s perspective of mission leader Dr. Alan Stern and others on New Horizons, and including two stunning 16-page full-color inserts of images, Chasing New Horizons is a riveting account of scientific discovery, and of how much we humans can achieve when people focused on a dream work together toward their incredible goal.
Download or read book The Lamp the Ice and the Boat Called Fish written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005-11-28 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish tells the dramatic story of the Canadian Arctic expedition that set off in 1913 to explore the high north.
Download or read book The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek written by Barry Cunliffe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The archaeologist-author of The Ancient Celts provides an in-depth account of the fourth-century B.C. expedition of Pytheas, a Greek explorer who traveled from the Greek colony of Massalia (Marseille) to the distant lands of northern Europe, including Britain, Denmark, and, possibly, Iceland.
Download or read book Ultima Thule written by Henry Handel Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ultima Thule written by Simone Sassen and published by Schirmer Mosel. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ultima Thule - the end of the world. This is how people used to refer to Spitsbergen, an island in the northernmost archipelago of Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean. In this book, Simone Sassen and Cees Nooteboom describe a journey there and to the coal mining town Pyramiden, once operated by the Russians. There are romantic views of deserted, almost barren landscapes, high moors, glaciers, mountains, eternal ice, fjords, more than just the north, as it were, and instead the quintessence of the north. Then, like a mirage, the silence of an abandoned town: disused industrial facilities, deserted apartments, a former post office, abandoned playgrounds and sports fields. These traces of a past "gold fever" and of urban life in the eternal ice are both impressive and unreal." "Simone Sassen's color photographs and Cees Nooteboorn's essay capture the "end of the world", as is actually the case in Pyramiden, in a fascinating way. These are images of a past whose shadow stretches far into the future." "The reason for the journey, which bore the motto "Ultima Thule", was International Polar Year 2007-8. In September 2007, the authors, together with some other writer-travelers, took up an invitation to visit Norway's extreme north, namely Tromso, Spitsbergen, Hammerfest, and Kirkenes. The aim of the tour was to draw attention to the far-reaching developments in this both climatically and politically sensitive region. Only recently has new Russian activity here made it clear that the nation has a stalwart interest in the area, although cooperation between the countries concerned, namely Russia, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, continues to be relaxed in this region."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Crack in the Cosmic Egg written by Steve Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blakwork written by Alison Whittaker and published by . This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning mix of memoir, reportage, fiction, satire, and critique composed by a powerful new voice in poetry. Alison Whittaker's BLAKWORK is an original and unapologetic collection from which two things emerge; an incomprehensible loss, and the poet's fearless examination of the present. Whittaker is unsparing in the interrogation of familiar ideas - identifying and dissolving them with idiosyncratic imagery, layering them to form new connections, and reinterpreting what we know. 'Alison Whittaker's second book, Blakwork is a bold mix of poetry, micro-fiction, memoir and critique, and a follow-up to her award-wining debut poetry collection, Lemons in the Chicken Wire...Whittaker has drawn on the strength of past generations to become a strong blak woman in contemporary Australia, and readers are gifted her insights into growing up blak. With a unique style of writing, she bravely unpacks themes such as colonisation and Aboriginal rights in Australia.' -- Karen Wyld, Books+Publishing
Download or read book The SS Brotherhood of the Bell written by Joseph P. Farrell and published by Adventures Unlimited Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a range of exotic technologies the Nazis researched, and challenges to the conventional views of the end of World War Two, the Roswell incident, and the beginning of MAJIC-12, the government's alleged secret team of UFO investigators.
Download or read book Working Bullocks written by Katharine Susannah Prichard and published by Sydney, Angus. This book was released on 1956 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic novel of the Australian outback by one of Australia's most gifted authors. This reprint of a story first published in1926 describes life amongst Western Australian timber workers in the early twentieth century. An evocative tale of social relations, working culture and romantic bonds set in the context of the beauty and majesty of the great Karri forests.
Download or read book Prince of the World written by Christopher Howard and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these six stories, Chris Howard reasserts his talent for evoking the gritty and the apocalyptic with poetic grace. Intelligent People Speaking Reasonably follows two Iraq vets adrift in the civilian life of the Pacific Northwest. Space is Kindness witnesses the unexpected death of Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan from the perspective of a local reporter and a photographer rushing to the crash-site in 2000. Darkstar takes place in Dublin and follows a young outcast named Sailor through grimy, pre Apocalyptic streets as he tries to find the soulmate he hasn't seen since childhood. Son of Man tells the story of the Manson family from the perspective of one of its members. How to Make Millions in the Oil Market contemplates the absurdity of war from the point of view of a Blackwater contractor first in the chaos of Iraq and later in the relative peace of the US. The epictitle story Prince of the World follows a mixed-race orphan named Labelle as he wanders north along the Mississippi, ultimately caught in the infamous Starved Rock Massacre in Howard's home-state of Illinois.
