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Author : Mary Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Across Greenland's Ice-fields written by Mary Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Josephine Diebitsch Peary
Publisher : New York ; Philadelphia, Pa. : Contemporary Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book My Arctic Journal written by Josephine Diebitsch Peary and published by New York ; Philadelphia, Pa. : Contemporary Publishing Company. This book was released on 1894 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs. Peary's experiences at McCormick Bay, N.W. Greenland 1891-92. Includes observations on Eskimo customs.
Author : George Frederick Wright
Publisher : London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Greenland Icefields and Life in the North Atlantic written by George Frederick Wright and published by London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner. This book was released on 1896 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes excursion to Greenland in 1894 with Dr. F.A. Cook, with observations on land and sea ice, peoples, plants and animals. Discusses Pleistocene glaciation and its causes. (AB 19714).
Author : Roger G. Barry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108423167
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Polar Environments and Global Change written by Roger G. Barry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys atmospheric, oceanic and cryospheric processes, present and past conditions, and changes in polar environments.
Author : Jon Gertner
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812996631
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Ice at the End of the World written by Jon Gertner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change “Jon Gertner takes readers to spots few journalists or even explorers have visited. The result is a gripping and important book.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The Christian Science Monitor • Library Journal Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet that covers it is 700 miles wide and 1,500 miles long, and is composed of nearly three quadrillion tons of ice. For the last 150 years, explorers and scientists have sought to understand Greenland—at first hoping that it would serve as a gateway to the North Pole, and later coming to realize that it contained essential information about our climate. Locked within this vast and frozen white desert are some of the most profound secrets about our planet and its future. Greenland’s ice doesn’t just tell us where we’ve been. More urgently, it tells us where we’re headed. In The Ice at the End of the World, Jon Gertner explains how Greenland has evolved from one of earth’s last frontiers to its largest scientific laboratory. The history of Greenland’s ice begins with the explorers who arrived here at the turn of the twentieth century—first on foot, then on skis, then on crude, motorized sleds—and embarked on grueling expeditions that took as long as a year and often ended in frostbitten tragedy. Their original goal was simple: to conquer Greenland’s seemingly infinite interior. Yet their efforts eventually gave way to scientists who built lonely encampments out on the ice and began drilling—one mile, two miles down. Their aim was to pull up ice cores that could reveal the deepest mysteries of earth’s past, going back hundreds of thousands of years. Today, scientists from all over the world are deploying every technological tool available to uncover the secrets of this frozen island before it’s too late. As Greenland’s ice melts and runs off into the sea, it not only threatens to affect hundreds of millions of people who live in coastal areas. It will also have drastic effects on ocean currents, weather systems, economies, and migration patterns. Gertner chronicles the unfathomable hardships, amazing discoveries, and scientific achievements of the Arctic’s explorers and researchers with a transporting, deeply intelligent style—and a keen sense of what this work means for the rest of us. The melting ice sheet in Greenland is, in a way, an analog for time. It contains the past. It reflects the present. It can also tell us how much time we might have left.
Author : Alfred de Quervain
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 022801266X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
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.
Author : Mary Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Across Greenland's Ice-fields ; the Adventures of Nansen and Peary on the Great Ice-cap written by Mary Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fridtjof Nansen
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780343768911
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (689 download)
Download or read book The First Crossing of Greenland written by Fridtjof Nansen and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Mary Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331993131
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Across Greenland's Ice-Fields written by Mary Douglas and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Across Greenland's Ice-Fields: The Adventures of Nansen and Peary on the Great Ice-Cap The record of polar discovery teems with romantic stories of adventure, the relation of which is most useful as a means of preserving an interest among us in the exploration of the unknown parts of our globe, and of arousing that spirit of emulation which, in the years that are gone, built up the greatness of our country. Richard Hakluyt wrote "the prose epic of the British nation." He preserved, for future generations, a record of the mighty deeds of gallant adventurers which would otherwise have been forgotten. He set an example which, fortunately for our country, has been followed, century after century, by many diligent compilers. Their labours are most valuable, for they spread and make popular a branch of knowledge than which none is more important. "Across Greenland's Ice-Fields" is a volume which well serves this useful purpose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Robert Edwin Peary
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Secrets of Polar Travel written by Robert Edwin Peary and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expansion of the Peary system of Arctic exploration which appeared originally in "The North Pole". (AB 13238).
Author : W. S. B. Paterson
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483287254
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
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.
Author : Mary Douglas
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230256610
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (566 download)
Download or read book Across Greenland's Ice-Fields; the Adventures of Nansen and Peary on the Great Ice-Cap written by Mary Douglas and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 42 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. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVIII. THE ICE CLAIMS A VICTIM. AFTER the return of Gibson and Cook from the Inland Ice, life at Redcliffe went on most uneventfully for some weeks; in fact, almost the onlyvariation from the usual routine was that Matt's frozen heel took an unfavourable turn, and kept him a prisoner for some days. Verhoeff gave unremitting attention to his scientific work, and seldom went very far from the house, but the doctor and Gibson made a ten days' hunting excursion up the bay; luck, however, did not attend them, and, much to the disappointment of their companions, who were reduced to an unpalatable diet of seal-meat, they came back without any game whatever. Towards the middle of July a slight sensation occurred, for one morning Matt declared that he had overheard two of the Eskimos plotting to kill some one ---he was not sure who was to be the victim, but (600) 14 thought it might be himself. He was considerablyalarmed, and promptly communicated his fears to Cook, who also thought seriously of the supposed plot. Mrs. Peary heard them talking, and insisted on knowing what was the matter, but much to the doctor's annoyance, when she heard the tale, she burst out laughing, for so far the natives had been extremely gentle and friendly. Besides, she remembered that three of them had left Redcliffe on the previous day, which hardly looked as though they were hatching a dangerous plot against the whites, whom they certainly regarded as superior to themselves; and further, even supposing that they had any such design, and elected to discuss it close to the house, she very much doubted whether Matt understood their language sufficiently to form a correct opinion of anything he might chance to overhear. All things considered, she saw no special...
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Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leonard
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1481769103
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)
Download or read book The Glacier written by Leonard and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two agents disembarked somewhere at the latitudes 74-75N and disappeared in the cold white world. Nobody had ever heard about them from then. Twenty years later a team of best glaciologists of the country of Russia went to high latitudes of Arctic. They all were enthusiastic scientists under the leadership of talented young doctor of science, Vladimir Ustinov, looking with excitement for new discoveries on the largest in the Northern Hemisphere glacier of Greenland. They did it. The glacier was not cold; it was hot. The scientist had realized long time ago that the whole Greenland Ice Sheet was in fact one huge thousands of trillion tones glacier. However, the twisted minds of the others became curious about this phenomenon for the absolutely remote from the science reason. The great discovery was about to become a source of the greatest tragedy in the present world. The earth crust rift zones if stimulated provoked or rather evoked for activity could shift and move to plow everything on its way across North American continent. A resolute struggle with destructive forces set upon Arctic - in the abyssal of Greenland Sea and on the Hot Glacier
Author : Colin Cox
Publisher : merdian
ISBN 13 : 0955074517
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Short Hops Across the Atlantic written by Colin Cox and published by merdian. This book was released on 2009 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Aerial Surveying over London & the UK in a noisy twin engine plane to flying small single and twin engine planes from the warmth of the Caribbean, up the East Coast of America, across the Atlantic Ocean, over the Greenland Ice Cap towards the North Pole and back down to Fairoaks Airport near London. A light-hearted look at flying.
Author : British Museum
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1020 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years ... written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1020 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum in the Years ... written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
