Download or read book Finse Explores Russia written by Karine Hagen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Let s Explore Russia written by Walt K. Moon and published by Lerner Publications (Tm). This book was released on 2017 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What foods do people eat in Russia? What animals can live in the tundra? Learn these facts and more as you take a photo-filled journey through Russia, the largest country on Earth"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Handbook for Travellers in Russia Poland and Finland written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Explorer s Guide to Russia written by Robert Greenall and published by Zephyr Press (AZ). This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Russia Through the Stereoscope a Journey Across the Land of the Czar from Finland to the Black Sea written by Mabel Sarah Emery and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... A symbol of hospitality this salt becomes later, when time and distance have had a chance to lend it poetic flavor and glamor. You remember that gorgeously arrayed Lord Mayor of St. Petersburg whom we saw at the Troitsky Bridge (Stereograph 38) had only the day before ceremonially offered bread and salt to the royal guests of the Czar as a token of the national welcome. With us, the actual, material stuff is so cheap a commodity that it is indeed a scathing estimate of a man's practicality to declare that he is "not worth his salt." But if we ourselves had to earn not only our salt but our bread too, working like these heavy-faced women of Solinen, we should find our own economic problems desperately intensified. Well, Russia must solve her own problems. She is not quite ready for General Federations of Women's Clubs. We probably have enough to do minding our own affairs, personal and national, without undertaking to lay out her course of procedure. The Lord and the Czar must work it out together. It is time for us to go. We have crossed the land of the Slav from the Baltic to the Black Sea, and we come to the shore whence we can look off to other worlds. 100. The Black Sea, from the Russian Coast. There is something endlessly fascinating about this outlook as we stand on the shore and gaze over the dancing waters. If we could go " flying, flying south," beyond that distant horizon, what should we find? Miles on miles of sea; then the ancient lands of Asia Minor, where the heroes of the Iliad fought, with gods for and against them, and whence .Eneas came to be the founder of the Roman world and of western civilization. Then we should cross the eastern end of the blue Mediterranean where the merchants of Tyre and Sidon went on their...
Download or read book Russia Explored written by John BROWN (Explorer.) and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Explore Russia written by Mandi M. Watts and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explore Russia" is the fifth book in the Geography Explorer series. Using this interactive workbook, readers will have an opportunity to explore the culture and geography of Russia through a variety of engaging activities, including map exercises, cooking projects, book recommendations, and more. This book is perfect for students seeking to supplement an existing geography curriculum, young travelers preparing for a trip, and kids interested in expanding their knowledge of the world.
Download or read book Hand book for Travellers in Russia Poland and Finland written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book At Home at Highclere written by Countess of Carnarvon and published by Preface Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE. Lady Carnarvon's love of history is richly rewarded at Highclere Castle with its mine of family records going back some 300 years. She has delved into the archives to create a book that invites you inside the Castle, past and present. Throughout the centuries, Highclere has welcomed Royalty, Statesmen, Egyptologists and pioneers of technology along with men and women from the worlds of music, art and letters. The etiquette of the invitation, the balance of guests at a weekend house party, their 'placement' at dinners, and the entertainment of friends, as well as the domestic management required to execute the perfect occasion, have all preoccupied successive generations of chatelaines. This book tells the story four real life weekends - from 1866 to 1936 - when the great and the good gathered at Highclere to change the world in some large or small part. It then reflects on how the current Countess entertains 'At Home' at Highclere today.
Download or read book Russian Portraits written by Clare Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Population Fluctuations in Rodents written by Charles J. Krebs and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did rodent outbreaks in Germany help to end World War I? What caused the destructive outbreak of rodents in Oregon and California in the late 1950s, the large population outbreak of lemmings in Scandinavia in 2010, and the great abundance of field mice in Scotland in the spring of 2011? Population fluctuations, or outbreaks, of rodents constitute one of the classic problems of animal ecology, and in Population Fluctuations in Rodents, Charles J. Krebs sifts through the last eighty years of research to draw out exactly what we know about rodent outbreaks and what should be the agenda for future research. Krebs has synthesized the research in this area, focusing mainly on the voles and lemmings of the Northern Hemisphere—his primary area of expertise—but also referring to the literature on rats and mice. He covers the patterns of changes in reproduction and mortality and the mechanisms that cause these changes—including predation, disease, food shortage, and social behavior—and discusses how landscapes can affect population changes, methodically presenting the hypotheses related to each topic before determining whether or not the data supports them. He ends on an expansive note, by turning his gaze outward and discussing how the research on rodent populations can apply to other terrestrial mammals. Geared toward advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and practicing ecologists interested in rodent population studies, this book will also appeal to researchers seeking to manage rodent populations and to understand outbreaks in both natural and urban settings—or, conversely, to protect endangered species.
Download or read book Nansen written by Roland Huntford and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar exploration, the last act of territorial discovery before the leap into space began. Nansen was a prime illustration of Carlyle's dictum that 'the history of the world is but the biography of great men'. He was not merely a pioneer in the wildly diverse fields of oceanography and skiing, but one of the founders of neurology. A restless, unquiet Faustian spirit, Nansen was a Renaissance Man born out of his time into the new Norway of Ibsen and Grieg. He was an artist and historian, a diplomat who had dealings with Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, and played a part in the Versailles Peace Conference, where he helped the Americans in their efforts to contain the Bolsheviks. He also undertook famine relief in Russia. Finally, working for the League of Nations as both High Commissioner for Refugees and High Commissioner for the Repatriation of Prisoners of War, he became the first of the modern media-conscious international civil servants.
Download or read book Seven Brothers written by Aleksis Kivi and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Great Quest written by Max Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-11 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Captain Scott's last Antarctic expedition is one of the greatest adventure stories ever told. Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Lieutenant Henry Bowers, Petty Officer Edgar Evans, Captain Lawrence Oates, and Dr Edward Wilson all died on the return trek from the South Pole, starved and frozen, only eleven miles from a supply camp. Recent decades have seen controversy rage over whether Scott was the last of a line of great Victorian explorers, intent on discovering uncharted lands, or a hopeless incompetent driven by personal ambition. Rejecting the stereotypes, Max Jones reveals a complex figure, a product of the passions and preoccupations of an imperial age.
Download or read book Purge written by Sofi Oksanen and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning novel of two women dogged by secrets buried in Estonia’s shameful Soviet past—“[A] bold combination of history, politics, and suspense” (The Sunday Times). When Aliide Truu, an older woman living alone in the Estonian countryside, finds a disheveled girl huddled in her front yard, she suppresses her misgivings and offers her shelter. Zara is a young sex-trafficking victim on the run from her captors, but a photo she carries with her soon makes it clear that her arrival at Aliide’s home is no coincidence. Survivors both, Aliide and Zara engage in a complex plot of suspicion and revelation as they attempt to discover each other’s motives. As their stories come to light, they reveal a tragic family drama of rivalry, lust, and loss that played out during the worst years of Estonia’s Soviet occupation. “A stirring and humane work of art” by the acclaimed Finnish-Estonian author Sofi Oksanen, Purge won numerous awards including the Finlandia Prize and the Prix Femina (The New Republic). “A stunner.” —The Plain Dealer “[A] taut, well-crafted tale of Europe’s still living post-war pain.” —Booklist “A dark, harrowing, and at times difficult read that wrings every ounce of emotion from the reader.” —The Bookseller
Download or read book Behind the Urals written by John Scott and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Scott's classic account of his five years as a worker in the new industrial city of Magnitogorsk in the 1930s, first published in 1942, is enhanced in this edition by Stephen Kotkin's introduction, which places the book in context for today's readers; by the texts of three debriefings of Scott conducted at the U.S. embassy in Moscow in 1938 and published here for the first time; and by a selection of photographs showing life in Magnitogorsk in the 1930s. No other book provides such a graphic description of the life of workers under the First Five-Year Plan.
Download or read book Antarctic Atlas written by Peter Fretwell and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ESTWA AWARD FOR ILLUSTRATED TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 One of the least-known places on the planet, the only continent on earth with no indigenous population, Antarctica is a world apart. From a leading cartographer with the British Antarctic Survey, this new collection of maps and data reveals Antarctica as we have never seen it before. This is not just a book of traditional maps. It measures everything from the thickness of ice beneath our feet to the direction of ice flows. It maps volcanic lakes, mountain ranges the size of the Alps and gorges longer than the Grand Canyon, all hidden beneath the ice. It shows us how air bubbles trapped in ice tell us what the earth's atmosphere was like 750,000 years ago, proving the effects of greenhouse gases. Colonies of emperor penguins abound around the coastline, and the journeys of individual seals around the continent and down to the sea bed in search of food have been intricately tracked and mapped. Twenty-nine nations have research stations in Antarctica and their unique architecture is laid out here, along with the challenges of surviving in Antarctica'sunforgiving environment. Antarctica is also the frontier of our fight against climate change. If its ice melts, it will swamp almost every coastal city in the world. Antarctic Atlas illustrates the harsh beauty and magic of this mysterious continent, and shows how, far from being abstract, it has direct relevance to us all.
