Polar Regions category: 485 books
TAUCHEN im EISMEER
Erinnerungen an meine 1. Überwinterung in einer russischen Antarktisstation
Language: German
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Martin Rauschert kam nach der deutschen Wiedervereinigung, als das Alfred-Wegener-Institut sich um die polarbezogenen Zweige der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR bemühte, in meine Sektion. Schon nach kurzer Zeit wurde uns klar, dass wir einen Schatz geborgen hatten. Martin ist ein ausgefuchster Taxonom,...
by Barry Lopez
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
This New York Times–bestselling exploration of the Arctic, a National Book Award winner, is “one of the finest books ever written about the far North” (Publishers Weekly).
“The nation’s premier nature writer” travels to a landscape at once barren and beautiful, perilous and alluring,...
Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold Fields 1896-1898
A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Gold Mines and Camps
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
“A thrilling narrative of personal experiences and adventures in the wonderful gold regions of Alaska and the Klondike, with observations of travel and exploration along the Yukon. Portraying the dangers, hardships, and privations of a gold-seeker's life; with a faithful description of life and...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
Antarctica Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....
by Edward S. Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2014
The good ship "Nautilus" had completed the greater part of her voyage from London to her far-off destination, deep in the recesses of British America. This was York Factory, one of the chief posts of the Hudson Bay Company.
Among the numerous streams flowing into Hudson Bay, from...
A Wilder Time
Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Book
Kirkus Reviews "Best Book of the Year" selection
"A richly literary account. . . . Anchored by deep reflection and scientific knowledge, A Wilder Time is a portrait of an ancient, nearly untrammeled world...
The Fast-Changing Arctic
Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
In this timely new book, international scholars and military professionals come together to explore the strategic consequences of the thawing of the Arctic. Their analyses of efforts by governments and defence, security, and coast guard organizations to address these challenges make timely and urgent...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
The North American Arctic was one of the last regions on Earth to be settled by humans, due to its extreme climate, limited range of resources, and remoteness from populated areas. Despite these factors, it holds a complex and lengthy history relating to Inuit, Iñupiat, Inuvialuit, Yup'ik and Aleut...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The Antarctic continent holds a vast economic potential in both renewable and non-renewable resources. Therefore, the sovereignty of the continent, and in particular the Antarctic peninsula...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The U.S. Navy recognizes that the opening of the Arctic Ocean has important national security implications as well as significant impacts on the U.S. Navy's required future capabilities. The national security interests of the United States, an Arctic nation through the state of Alaska, extend into...
The Voyages of Captain Scott (Illustrated Edition)
Accounts of "The Discovery" & "The Terra Nova" Antarctic Expeditions
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
The Voyages of Captain Scott retells the stories of the Discovery Expedition and the Terra Nova Expedition of Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions. "The Voyage of the Discovery" is an account of...
by Daniel Bryce
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
After years of preparation, the world's most experienced Antarctic explorer embarked on the most dramatic adventure of his life. Sir Ernest Shackleton had carefully picked crew and a stout, well-outfitted ship, the Endurance. But he had no radio, the world was at war, and at the edge of the Antarctic...
The Antarctic Exploration Anthology
The Personal Accounts of the Great Antarctic Explorers
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013
The frozen continent of Antarctica has always captured the imagination of explorers and adventurers from around the World, most especially in the first few decades of the 20th Century, when the race was on to be the very first person to reach the South Pole. In this carefully selected Anthology we...
From Indians to Eskimos (storey 24 of 40)
Coppermine, N.W.T. Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Out with the old and slide into the new. My two brothers and I stand shivering at the school door. Winds howl off of the snow swept rock that stands guard above the school. Willy wags wing gusts of powered snow into the corner that we huddle. Frigid fingers tear and tug at our faces and pull on our...