Download or read book Greenland Expedition written by Lonnie Dupre and published by NorthWord Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with breathtaking photos, this adventure epic of Greenland offers insight into the lives of the people who call this harsh land home and gives readers a feel for what the Inuit go through to survive daily existence. 135 photos.
Download or read book Expedition Relics from High Arctic Greenland written by Peter R. Dawes and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Euro-American explorers reached northernmost Greenland in the mid-19th century. Remoteness, desolate tundra, and persistent sea ice have ensured that many historic sites from early (non-Inuit) exploration remained undisturbed by man. Moreover, as the result of the dry polar climate, the physical remains from these expeditions - even cloth, leather, and paper - are generally well preserved. The hundred and two objects registered and described in this book were discovered at thirty-two sites stretching from Baffin Bay to the Arctic Ocean. They derive from nineteen American, British and Danish expeditions of geographical discovery that reached Greenland between 1853 and 1934. Ranging from commonplace to borderline unique, the artefacts give an insight to conditions, life and mere survival on these expeditions, an insight that adds authenticity to the written annals and to a history that is truly dramatic with at least fifty men losing their lives. Beautifully illustrated with no less than 600 images comprising maps, portraits, scenes from the historic sites and superb artefact photography, this book will appeal not just to students of historical archaeology, but to all interested in the exploration of the polar regions."--
Download or read book Narrative of an expedition to the East coast of Greenland in search of the lost colonies Translated from the Danish by G G Macdougall written by Wilhelm August GRAAH and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrative of an Expedition to the East Coast of Greenland Sent by Order of the King of Denmark in Search of the Lost Colonies Under the Command of W A Graah written by Wilhelm August Graah and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrative of an Expedition to the East Coast of Greenland written by W.A. Graah and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-12-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1837.
Download or read book Narrative of an expedition to the east coast of Greenland in search of the lost colonies tr by G G Macdougall written by Wilhelm August Graah and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrative of an Expedition to the East Coast of Greenland Sent by Order of the King of Denmark in Search of the Lost Colonies Under the Command of Captn W A Graah written by Wilhelm August Graah and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Labyrinth of Ice written by Buddy Levy and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Outdoor Book Awards Winner Winner of the BANFF Adventure Travel Award “A thrilling and harrowing story. If it’s a cliche to say I couldn’t put this book down, well, too bad: I couldn’t put this book down.” —Jess Walter, bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins “Polar exploration is utter madness. It is the insistence of life where life shouldn’t exist. And so, Labyrinth of Ice shows you exactly what happens when the unstoppable meets the unmovable. Buddy Levy outdoes himself here. The details and story are magnificent.” —Brad Meltzer, bestselling author of The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington Based on the author's exhaustive research, the incredible true story of the Greely Expedition, one of the most harrowing adventures in the annals of polar exploration. In July 1881, Lt. A.W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made. Greely and his men confronted every possible challenge—vicious wolves, sub-zero temperatures, and months of total darkness—as they set about exploring one of the most remote, unrelenting environments on the planet. In May 1882, they broke the 300-year-old record, and returned to camp to eagerly await the resupply ship scheduled to return at the end of the year. Only nothing came. 250 miles south, a wall of ice prevented any rescue from reaching them. Provisions thinned and a second winter descended. Back home, Greely’s wife worked tirelessly against government resistance to rally a rescue mission. Months passed, and Greely made a drastic choice: he and his men loaded the remaining provisions and tools onto their five small boats, and pushed off into the treacherous waters. After just two weeks, dangerous floes surrounded them. Now new dangers awaited: insanity, threats of mutiny, and cannibalism. As food dwindled and the men weakened, Greely's expedition clung desperately to life. Labyrinth of Ice tells the true story of the heroic lives and deaths of these voyagers hell-bent on fame and fortune—at any cost—and how their journey changed the world.
Download or read book Across Greenland s Ice Cap written by Alfred de Quervain and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As polar exploration reached its zenith, and in the same month that Captain Robert Falcon Scott perished in Antarctica, four young scientists from Zurich took ship for Greenland. Though they had little previous experience of arctic travel, their ambition was to achieve the first west-to-east crossing of the northern hemisphere’s largest ice cap, making scientific observations along the way. Few outside Switzerland have heard of this expedition or its leader, the meteorologist Alfred de Quervain, in spite of its success. In thirty-one days in the summer of 1912, the party sledded across 640 kilometres of untracked snow and ice. Nobody died or fell into a crevasse, although there were some near misses. The voyage was more than a well-executed feat of arctic travel: de Quervain and his colleagues collected data still used today by scientists researching the effects of climate change on Greenland’s ice cap. De Quervain’s popular account of his adventures, published in German in 1914, is both a minor classic of exploration literature and a sympathetic portrayal of life in Greenland’s remote coastal settlements in the early twentieth century. Published to coincide with the expedition’s 110th anniversary, Across Greenland’s Ice Cap includes the explorer’s original text, translated into English by his daughter and son-in-law; a historical and biographical introduction by Martin Hood; reflections on the journey’s scientific legacy by the geographers Andreas Vieli and Martin Lüthi; and a treasure trove of hand-tinted lantern slides reproduced in full colour.
Download or read book The Teddy Expedition written by Kai R. Dahl and published by New York : Appleton. This book was released on 1925 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voyage to east Greenland of supply vessel Teddy in 1923. Translation of Danish original Paa isflage langs Ostgronland, Kobenhavn, 1924.
Download or read book The First Greenland Expedition of the University of Michigan written by William Herbert Hobbs and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arctic Institute Greenland expedition written by David Clark Nutt and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Physics of Glaciers written by W. S. B. Paterson and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated and expanded version of the second edition explains the physical principles underlying the behaviour of glaciers and ice sheets. The text has been revised in order to keep pace with the extensive developments which have occurred since 1981. A new chapter, of major interest, concentrates on the deformation of subglacial till. The book concludes with a chapter on information regarding past climate and atmospheric composition obtainable from ice cores.
Download or read book Lost in the Arctic written by Ejnar Mikkelsen and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aboard the Alabama, Mikkelsen and his small crew initially set out to the scarcely explored regions of Greenland to recover the journals from the ill-fated Danmarks Expedition. On that mission, the crew had succeeded in mapping many uncharted parts of Greenland, but never made it back. During Mikkelsen's three-year journey he succeeded in recovering the journals, along with charting several parts of the east coast of arctic Greenland, however, not without surviving many hardships. Accounts of the physical difficulties are dwarfed by Mikkelsen's fascinating descriptions of the plunge into dementia as the days stretched to years.
Download or read book The Arctic Regions written by William Bradford and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark in the annals of American photography and polar adventure, William Bradford's book The Arctic Regions was first published for subscribers in 1873. No more than three hundred copies of the leather-bound elephant folio are known to have been printed. The book has been a prized possession of major American and European museums, libraries, and collectors ever since. With an introduction written by the noted polar historian Russell A. Potter, The Arctic Regions is now available for the first time to the trade. As the pace of global climate change quickens and the magnificent Arctic icecap dwindles, its publication could not be more timely or important.
Download or read book Greenland Expedition 1969 written by University of St. Andrews. Greenland Expedition and published by . This book was released on 1969* with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greenland Expedition 1967 to Upernivik Island written by Philip W. F. Gribbon and published by . This book was released on 1967* with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
