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Author : Longman
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Total Pages : 42 pages
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Download or read book Suggestion for the Exploration of Iceland written by Longman and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Longman
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Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Suggestions for the Exploration of Iceland written by William Longman and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ari Thorgilsson Frodi
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Total Pages : 89 pages
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Download or read book Islendingabok written by Ari Thorgilsson Frodi and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy Marie Brown
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156033978
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (339 download)
Download or read book The Far Traveler written by Nancy Marie Brown and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brown's enthusiasm is infectious as she re-teaches us our history."--The Boston Globe Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of Gudrid's story were true. Then, in 2001, a team of scientists discovered what may have been this pioneering woman's last house, buried under a hay field in Iceland, just where the sagas suggested it could be. Joining scientists experimenting with cutting-edge technology and the latest archaeological techniques, and tracing Gudrid's steps on land and in the sagas, Nancy Marie Brown reconstructs a life that spanned--and expanded--the bounds of the then-known world. She also sheds new light on the society that gave rise to a woman even more extraordinary than legend has painted her and illuminates the reasons for its collapse. "Brown rightly leaves scholarly work to scholars. Instead, her account presents an enthusiastic appreciation of her education in how fieldwork and literature offer insights into the past."--The Seattle Times "[Brown has] a lovely ear for storytelling."--Los Angeles Times Book Review NANCY MARIE BROWN is the author of A Good Horse Has No Color and Mendel in the Kitchen. She lives in Vermont with her husband, the writer Charles Fergus.
Author : M.J. Siegert
Publisher : Geological Society of London
ISBN 13 : 1786203227
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Exploration of Subsurface Antarctica written by M.J. Siegert and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our appreciation of glaciological processes in Antarctica suffers from a lack of observations in regions where numerical models indicate the ice sheet to be susceptible to ocean and/or atmospheric warming. The solution lies in the use and development of glacier geophysics. In this volume we present a series of papers that demonstrate how geophysics can be deployed in Antarctica to comprehend: (1) boundary conditions that influence ice flow such as subglacial topography, the distribution of basal water and ice-sheet rheology; (2) phenomena that might affect ice-flow processes, such as complex internal ice-sheet structures and the proposition of large stores of hitherto unappreciated groundwater; and (3) how glacigenic sediments and formerly glaciated terrain on, and surrounding, the continent can inform us about past ice-sheet dynamics. The volume also takes a historical view on developments leading to current knowledge, examines active ice-sheet processes, and points the way forward on how geophysics can advance quantitative understanding of Antarctic ice-sheet behaviour.
Author : Anna Agnarsdóttir
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351899953
Total Pages : 863 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Sir Joseph Banks, Iceland and the North Atlantic 1772-1820 / Journals, Letters and Documents written by Anna Agnarsdóttir and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Joseph Banks was one of the great figures of Georgian England, best known for participating as naturalist in Cook's Endeavour voyage (1768-71), as a patron of science and as the longest-serving President of the Royal Society (1778-1820). This volume brings together all Banks's papers concerning Iceland and the North Atlantic, scattered in repositories in Britain, the United States, Australia and Denmark, and most published here for the first time. A detailed introduction places them in historical context.
Author : Smithsonian Institution
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Total Pages : 1026 pages
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports for 1884-1886/87 issued in 2 pts., pt. 2 being the Report of the National Museum.
Author : Smithsonian Institution
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Total Pages : 1076 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents; Showing the Operations, Expenditures and Condition of the Institution written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard B. Wanty
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482284510
Total Pages : 1711 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Water-Rock Interaction, Two Volume Set written by Richard B. Wanty and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-09-02 with total page 1711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interaction of the lithosphere and hydrosphere sets the boundary conditions for life, as water and the nutrients extracted from rocks are essential to all known life-forms. Water-rock interaction also affects the fate and transport of pollutants, mediates the long-term cycling of fluids and metals in the earth's crust, impacts the migration and
Author : Julius E. Olson
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 875 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Story of North American Discovery and Exploration written by Julius E. Olson and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 875 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited collection presents the lives of the most influential explorers of North America: Eric the Red, Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Amerigo Vespucci, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Jacques Cartier, Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain.
Author : Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Total Pages : 698 pages
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Download or read book Sotheran's Price Current of Literature written by Henry Sotheran Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887553702
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)
Download or read book The Book of Settlements written by and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iceland was the last country in Europe to become inhabited, and we know more about the beginnings and early history of Icelandic society than we do of any other in the Old World. This world was vividly recounted in The Book of Settlements, first compiled by the first Icelandic historians in the thirteenth century. It describes in detail individuals and daily life during the Icelandic Age of Settlement.
Author : William R. Short
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786447273
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Icelanders in the Viking Age written by William R. Short and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sagas of Icelanders are enduring stories from Viking-age Iceland filled with love and romance, battles and feuds, tragedy and comedy. Yet these tales are little read today, even by lovers of literature. The culture and history of the people depicted in the Sagas are often unfamiliar to the modern reader, though the audience for whom the tales were intended would have had an intimate understanding of the material. This text introduces the modern reader to the daily lives and material culture of the Vikings. Topics covered include religion, housing, social customs, the settlement of disputes, and the early history of Iceland. Issues of dispute among scholars, such as the nature of settlement and the division of land, are addressed in the text.
Author : Richard Pokorný
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1036402215
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Mineral Resources in Iceland Volume II written by Richard Pokorný and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mineral resources, vital for any society, have historically driven exploration in Iceland through three key phases. Early Icelandic settlers to America and Australia got hooked on gold exploration at the onset of the nineteenth century, and brought this knowledge back when they returned home. In the 1970s, Yugoslav geologist Slobodan Janković led a comprehensive exploration for economic resources, especially metals around large intrusions. The 1990s marked the third phase, linking geothermal systems to gold and metal deposition, exemplified by metal-rich scales in the Reykjanes peninsula. This book covers historical accounts, newspaper stories, and scientific results. The first chapters explore ore deposits in old volcanic centres, silicic bodies and young volcanic systems. The second section covers story-cases about gold, silver and other metals, and also includes a chapter focused on the Faeroe Islands, the nearby archipelago with a similar geology to Iceland.
Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : DigiCat
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Total Pages : 883 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Great North American Explorers written by Stephen Leacock and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 883 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European colonization of America occurred as a result of the bravery and discoveries of great navigators, visionaries and adventurers. This carefully edited collection presents the lives of the most influential explorers of North America: Eric the Red, Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Amerigo Vespucci, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Jacques Cartier, Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain. Sale with these remarkable seamen through the vivid biographies and writings of their contemporaries. Table of Contents: Eric the Red and the Northmen: The Saga of Eric the Red The Vinland History of the Flat Island Book From Adam of Bremen's DescriptioInsularumAquilonis From the Icelandic Annals Papal Letters Concerning the Bishopric of Gardar in Greenland During the Fifteenth Century Christopher Columbus The life of John Cabot Original Narratives of the Voyages of John Cabot Letter of Lorenzo Pasqualigo to His Brothers Alvise and Francesco, Merchants in Venice Despatch to Ferdinand and Isabella From Pedro De Ayala Junior Ambassador at the Court of England, July 25, 1498 Amerigo Vespucci Vasco Núñez de Balboa Jacques Cartier Henry Hudson Samuel de Champlain
Author : Stephen Leacock
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 885 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Great Explorers of North America: Complete Biographies, Historical Documents, Journals & Letters written by Stephen Leacock and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 885 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Explorers of North America: Complete Biographies, Historical Documents, Journals & Letters' is an evocative anthology that traverses the expansive terrains of North American exploration through a varied tapestry of literary styles. This collection encapsulates the monumental journeys, diverse methodologies, and the profound impact of exploration on both the land and its peoples. Within its pages, the anthology breathes life into history by presenting an array of perspectives, from the detailed biographical accounts to the intimate reflections found in personal letters and journals. It highlights the rich mosaic of experiences, encapsulated in standout pieces that reveal the depth and complexity of the continent's exploration history. The compilation not only serves as a historical record but also as a medium of cultural and geographical enlightenment, showcasing the significance and diversity of the works included. The contributing authors and editors, Stephen Leacock, Edward Everett Hale, Julius E. Olson, Thomas A. Janvier, Frederick A. Ober, Charles W. Colby, and Elizabeth Hodges, bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the anthology. Their collective backgrounds, spanning academia, literature, and history, align with the collection's overarching theme, enriching it with their varied insights into historical, cultural, and literary movements. Together, these voices create a multifaceted narrative that deepens the reader's understanding of North American exploration, reflecting the complexities and the myriad perspectives that have shaped its history. 'The Great Explorers of North America' is an indispensable resource for anyone keen on delving into the history of exploration with a desire to understand its multifaceted nature. It offers readers a unique opportunity to explore a confluence of narratives, each contributing to a greater comprehension of the theme. This collection is recommended for its educational value, the breadth of insights it provides, and the enriching dialogue it fosters between the various authors' works, making it a valuable addition to the library of scholars, historians, and enthusiasts alike.
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Total Pages : 920 pages
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