Download or read book With Seaplane and Sledge in the Arctic written by George Binney and published by London : Hutchinson. This book was released on 1925 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative of Oxford University Arctic Expedition to Nordaustlander, Spitsbergen, 1924; experiment in use of seaplane in research; topographic, geological, meteorological, biological and geographical studies; first crossing of Nordaustlander.

Download or read book With Seaplane and Sledge in the Arctic Etc An Account of the 1924 Oxford University Arctic Expedition With Plates Including Portraits and a Map written by Sir Frederick George BINNEY and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book With Seaplane and Sledge in the Arctic written by George Binney and published by London : Hutchinson. This book was released on 1925 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative of Oxford University Arctic Expedition to Nordaustlander, Spitsbergen, 1924; experiment in use of seaplane in research; topographic, geological, meteorological, biological and geographical studies; first crossing of Nordaustlander.

Download or read book With Seaplane and Sledge in the Arctic written by George Binney and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ice Steel and Fire written by Linda Parker and published by Helion and Company. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The generation that reached maturity in the inter war years had grown up in the shadow of the heroic age of Polar exploration and the sacrifices of a generation in the Great War. Their own adventures were to prove as astonishing and heroic as those of a previous generation. The members of the British Arctic air route expedition to Greenland, including Martin Lindsay, Quintin Riley and Freddie Spencer Chapman, were to pioneer the weather research methods necessary for Trans-Atlantic Flight. The university expeditions to Spitsbergen led by George Binney in the 1920s and Sandy Glen in the 1930s traversed and surveyed unexplored ground and contributed to developments in polar flight and radar. Glen's expeditions added to the knowledge of Arctic conditions by over-wintering. Other pre-war exploits of these adventurers included a voyage around the world the wrong way, and participation in the British Graham Land Antarctic expedition. Peter Fleming, brother to the creator of James Bond - Ian Fleming - spent the 1930s exploring Brazil, China and Tartary. Fleming's exploits are recounted in detail in this book. The character, skills and endurance obtained in these years set these adventurers and explorers apart as men who were to play a distinguished and heroic role in the Second World War. Their expertise in Arctic conditions, small boat handling, and exploring in all climatic conditions resulted in their participation in all aspects of warfare and arenas of battle, particularly as exponents of 'special operations', and as key members of Britain's first special forces. Their war service took them from the fjords of Norway and Spitsbergen to the jungles of Burma and Malaya and the beaches of Normandy and Italy. They were involved in blockade running, covert operations in Yugoslavia, Corsica and France and took part in major initiatives such as Ian Fleming's Intelligence gathering force, No 30 Assault unit, and the raid on St Nazaire. Most of these men had known each other before war came in 1939. In some cases they ended up serving alongside one another in wartime. The intertwined stories of these characters in peace and war are examples of how the spirit of adventure shown by men in the inter war years contributed to Britain's outstanding role in the Second World War. Linda Parker has written an important study that is equally relevant to both the history of British exploration and the genesis and early days of Britain's special forces 1939-45 - a quite unique and hitherto unexamined relationship. Linda Parker combines teaching History on a part time basis with her writing, and is currently completing a PhD at Birmingham University. Her main areas of interest are 20th Century Military History, Church History and the History of Polar exploration. She is a member of the Western Front Association. She was born and educated in Wales, but now lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and their dog. She enjoys walking and travelling, ideally together, and her ambition is to visit Antarctica. Her first book published by Helion was The Whole Armour of God: Anglican Army Chaplains in the Great War (2009).

Download or read book Among Our Books written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bibliography of Aeronautics written by United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Aeroplane written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dark Matter written by Michelle Paver and published by Orion. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he's offered the chance to be the wireless operator on an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway: five men and eight huskies, crossing the Barents Sea by the light of the midnight sun. At last they reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year. Gruhuken. But the Arctic summer is brief. As night returns to claim the land, Jack feels a creeping unease. One by one, his companions are forced to leave. He faces a stark choice. Stay or go. Soon he will see the last of the sun, as the polar night engulfs the camp in months of darkness. Soon he will reach the point of no return - when the sea will freeze, making escape impossible. And Gruhuken is not uninhabited. Jack is not alone. Something walks there in the dark. This Special Edition Ebook will feature exclusive material: AUTHOR EXTRAS: Dark Matter ¿ An exclusive interview with Michelle Paver and an extended author biography with integrated photos of the landscape of Spitsbergen. COVER DESIGN: Dark Matter ¿ the jacket designer¿s take and cover design progression (5 x visuals). DARK MATTER - A SHORT FILM: Dark Matter ¿ Turning the novel into a short promotional film and Dark Matter - The Film Director's Cut, the rejected film scripts, the final film script and behind the scenes at filming (3 x visuals).

Download or read book The Annual Register written by Edmund Burke and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year.

Download or read book The Annual Register of World Events written by Edmund Burke and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scottish Geographical Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Arctic Bibliography written by Arctic Institute of North America and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The European Antarctic written by P. Roberts and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first transnational study of British, Norwegian, and Swedish engagement with the Antarctic. Rather than charting how Europeans unveiled the Antarctic, it uses the history of Antarctic activity as a window into the political and cultural worlds of twentieth-century Britain and Scandinavia.

Download or read book Journal of Botany written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journal of Botany British and Foreign written by Berthold Seemann and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book SOE and The Resistance written by Michael Tillotson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOE and The Resistance describes the extraordinary contribution to the allied war effort made by the Special Operations Executive, from its formation in 1940 to the end of the war. Within a broadly chronological framework, the book illustrates how resistance was stimulated among the subjugated populations of Europe and the Far East, leading to the sabotage of industry and communications critical to the Axis cause. Ranging from France, through Scandinavia, the Low Countries , North Africa, the Balkans and the Far East, the story unfolds through the lives of the heroic men and women who served with the SOE in enemy-held territory, as recorded in their obituaries in The Times.