Polar Regions category: 485 books
by William Parry
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
3 works of William Parry English rear-admiral and Arctic explorer (1790-1855)
This ebook presents a collection of 3 works of William Parry. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table of Contents: - Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery...
Life After Dark (storey 19 of 40)
Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Neighbours to the left of the first burst of rifle shots begin to empty their gun chamber skyward as well. Do you remember this? This is Canadian tradition! In the cold black night, the sound is magnified. We all hope that Uncle Ed has his rifle pointed in the right direction; he’s been snipping...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
This "white paper" is a compilation of research on oil spills in ice-covered Arctic waters and recommendations for future work. We identify research entities in governmental, nongovernmental, industrial, and private organizations, and provide an inventory of research projects. Given that...
Mischief among the Penguins
Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
‘Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.’
So read the crew notice placed in the personal column of The Times by H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman in the spring of 1959. This approach to selecting volunteers for a year-long voyage of 20,000 miles brought...
The City of Auckland
New Zealand, 1840-1920 (Illustrations)
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
This book is the first attempt which has been made to write a connected history of the City of Auckland. Although in years the city is comparatively young, many of the events which have marked its progress have already been forgotten. With the exception, perhaps, of the principal incidents associated...
Crevasse Roulette
The First Trans-Antarctic Crossing 1957-58
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
The British Commonwealth-sponsored Trans-Antarctic Expedition (TAE) of 195758, under the leadership of Dr Vivian Fuchs, completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole. A pioneering and hazardous journey, and not without controversial elements, it also included scientists participating...
Land of the Midnight Sun
My Arctic Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
In an adventure of a lifetime, Alexander Armstrong wraps up warm and heads ever north to explore the hostile Arctic winter – the glittering landscape of Scandinavia, the isolated islands of Iceland and Greenland, and the final frontier of Canada and Alaska.
Along the way he learns from the...
The Great White South
being an account of experiences with Captain Scott's South pole expedition and of the nature life of the Antarctic
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Photographer Ponting joined Robert Scott's expedition to the South Pole in 1910. His remarkable book not only tells of the life among Scott's crew on board and at camp, but also provides numerous photos depicting the Antarctic landscape. Ponting also recorded, both in print and on film, habits of...
Operation Tabarin
Britain's Secret Wartime Expedition to Antarctica 1944-46
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Full of extraordinary characters, this tale of a secret mission is based upon previously unpublished diarires, letters, and reportsIn 1943, with Rommel's Afrika Korps in full retreat after El Alamein, Churchill's War Cabinet met to discuss the opening of a new front. Its battles would be fought not...
Overland to Starvation Cove
With the Inuit in Search of Franklin, 1878-1880
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1987
In May 1845 Sir John Franklin sailed westward from England in search of the Northwest Passage and was never seen again. Some thirty-five years later, Heinrich Klutschak of Prague, artist and surveyor on a small expedition led by Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka of the 3rd US Cavalry Regiment, stumbled...
Alaska Sampler 2014
Ten Authors from the Great Land: Fiction - Biography - Memoir - Humor
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Would the real Alaska please stand up?
This was the challenge put to ten of Alaska’s finest authors: to share unique and intimate perspectives—some previously published, some new to this volume—that reach beyond the usual stereotypes to an Alaska that can’t be packaged or staged. ...
by John Ross
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
2 works of John Ross Scottish rear admiral and Arctic explorer (1777-1856)
This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of John Ross. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table of Contents: - Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez Volume I - Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez Volume II
by Jared William Carter
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
A presented parallel short historical work that is richly researched in looking at JFK's Patton Robert McNamara.
A Frenchman in Search of Franklin
De Bray's Arctic Journal, 1852-54
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
In April 1852 Emile Frederic de Bray sailed down the Thames on board the Resolute, part of Sie Edward Belcher's Arctic Squadron in search of Sir John Franklin and his men, missing since the summer of 1845. De Bray's diaries of his years with Resolute have not been published before, in any language,...