Polar Regions category: 485 books
Riding the Ice Wind
By Kite and Sledge across Antarctica
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
I was desperate to haul myself out of the rut and put my face to the wind, to lose myself in endeavour. And in the cold, the snow and the silence of a great immensity to shrug off the restlessness I felt.'
Adrift in a life without risk or surprise and with a burning desire to make some sense...
by Christopher Routledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
In March 1816 the whale ship Esk sailed from Whitby on the east coast of England on a voyage to hunt whales in the Arctic. Commanded by one of the most successful whaling captains of the time, William Scoresby Jr., it should have been a successful and lucrative summer whaling season. But bad weather...
by Terrance Zepke
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Nepal is a great place for quirky travelers because it is a melting pot of many diverse ethnic groups and religions. This "Rooftop of the World" is also known for hosting more festivals than anywhere else on earth.
Plus, there are so many wild and wonderful things to see and do:
*Take...
by Terrance Zepke
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Ushuaia, "The Southernmost City in the World", began as a penal colony but has morphed into an adventure destination, as well as the departure port for most Antarctica cruises. Ushuaia has much to offer and should be on any adventure traveler's bucket list.
Highlights include:
*fun...
Frozen Empires
An Environmental History of the Antarctic Peninsula
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Perpetually covered in ice and snow, the mountainous Antarctic Peninsula stretches southwardd towards the South Pole where it merges with the largest and coldest mass of ice anywhere on the planet. Yet far from being an otherworldly "Pole Apart," the region has the most contested political history...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Eight official U.S. government and military documents provide insights into the American strategy for dealing with the increasingly ice-free Arctic: National Strategy for the Arctic Region (Obama White House), Implementation Plan for the National Strategy for the Arctic Region, Department of Defense...
Polaris
The Chief Scientist's Recollections of the American North Pole Expedition, 1871-73
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Emil Bessels was chief scientist and medical officer on George Francis Hall's ill-fated American North Pole Expedition of 1871-73 on board the ship Polaris. Bessels' book, translated from the German in its entirety for the first time, is one of only two first-hand accounts of the voyage, and it is...
by Ida Pfeiffer, Frédéric Guillaume Bergmann
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. The success which attended the publication in this Series of Illustrated Works of A Woman’s Journey round the World, has induced the publication of the present volume on a country so little known as Iceland, and about which so little recent information exists.
Las ambiciones de Jane Franklin
Una aventurera victoriana
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 22, 2017
La biografía de la mujer del explorador británico John Franklin, cuya expedición fallida al Ártico ha sido interpretada por actor Ciarán Hinds en la famosa serie de televisión THE TERROR. Sir Franklin fue un capitán de la Royal Navy. Él y todos los miembros de su expedición murieron en el...
by Commander E.A. Inglefield, R.N
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
First published in 1853, this work recounts an unsuccessful expedition to find the missing Franklin expedition. Following the disappearance of Sir John Franklin and his crew during a mission to find the North-West Passage, the Admiralty organised numerous searches for the missing men. The naval officer...
Cold Science
Environmental Knowledge in the North American Arctic during the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Science during the Cold War has become a matter of lively interest within the historical research community, attracting the attention of scholars concerned with the history of science, the Cold War, and environmental history. The Arctic—recognized as a frontier of confrontation between the superpowers,...
Le "Pourquoi-pas ?" dans l'Antarctique
Journal de la 2e expédition au Pôle sud, 1908-1910, suivi des rapports scientifiques des membres de l'état-major
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Extrait : "16 décembre 1908. — Par beau temps calme, nous appareillons de Punta-Arenas à 9 heures du soir. M. Blanchard, le si aimable consul de France, venu à bord de son launch la Laurita à 8 h. 30, amenait M. le gouverneur Chaigneau, M. Henkes, un des directeurs norvégiens de la Sociedad...
Le naufrage de La Jeannette dans l'océan glacial arctique
Raconté par les membres de l'expédition
Language: French
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Extrait : "Avant de présenter au lecteur les différents membres de l'expédition arctique projetée par M. Bennett, nous devons lui faire connaissance avec le navire destiné à leur servir de demeure pendant les longs mois qu'ils seront sans doute condamnés à passer au milieu des glaces polaires....
by Encyclopaedia Universalis, Les Grands Articles
Language: French
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Le district polaire austral est formé d'un continent, l'Antarctide, plus vaste que l'Europe et centré, approximativement, sur le pôle Sud, que ceinture un anneau océanique continu, l'océan glacial Antarctique. Ce dernier, constitué par la réunion de la partie des océans Atlantique, Indien et Pacifique située au sud du 60e degré de...