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Author : Sir William Martin Conway
Publisher : London : Dent
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The First Crossing of Spitsbergen written by Sir William Martin Conway and published by London : Dent. This book was released on 1897 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andreas Umbreit
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781841622408
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (224 download)
Download or read book Spitsbergen written by Andreas Umbreit and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2009 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel & holiday.
Author : J.J.M. van der Meer
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080541615
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Spitsbergen Push Moraines written by J.J.M. van der Meer and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004-04-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book deals with push moraines on Spitsbergen. The main body is a translation of the original German report by Karl Gripp on a 1927 expedition. The quality of Gripp's work is evaluated to see whether it stands the test of time. It is found that it is very modern, every year people still go into the field with the same research questions. It is also found that most likely Gripp's report contains the first description of features that we now take for granted, for instance the description of looped moraines to detect surges. Push moraines are still being studied and to show where we stand now two papers have been added that analyse two particular examples, Holmströmbreen and Sefströmbreen. The two examples are geographically close together, but reflect two completely different settings: terrestrial Holmströmbreen and tidewater Sefströmbreen. Since a few years we know of the De Geer Archive, a collection of glass negatives of Spitsbergen, relating to De Geer's expeditions between 1882 and 1910. The negatives have only emerged recently and a collection of prints relating to Holmströmbreen and Sefströmbreen is included here. Together with a third paper incorporated in the book, this time an evaluation of De Geer's photos and maps of the Sefströmbreen surge, this material shows the importance of incorporating historical documentation in our studies.
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Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Geographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Author : Andreas Umbreit
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781841620923
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Spitsbergen: Svalbard, Franz Josef, Jan Mayen, 3rd written by Andreas Umbreit and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen (locally referred to as Svalbard) is an antidote to modern-day life. Svalbard: The Bradt Travel Guide introduces ecotravelers to this fascinating part of the world; its intriguing land features, and the magical display of northern lights make it ideal for cruises, wilderness exploration, wildlife watching, and extreme sports. The guide is packed with essential information on travel preparations and local knowledge for those braving the Arctic elements. This guide features: >All the islands of the region that make up Svalbard territory, including Franz Josef Land and the tiny volcanic island of Jan Mayen >Nature and conservation, including polar bears, Arctic foxes, reindeer, and migratory birds >A survival guide to the Arctic with advice on getting outfitted for exploration >Getting there and traveling around, cruise options and internal travel by skidoos and sleds >A wide range of sports, including climbing, hiking, trekking, skiing, riding, and hunting >A background to the climate and geology of the region
Author : Louis Herbert Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Spitsbergen and Bear Island written by Louis Herbert Gray and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John T. Reilly
Publisher : Tapir Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9788251924603
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Greetings from Spitsbergen written by John T. Reilly and published by Tapir Academic Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spitsbergen, the largest wilderness in Europe, is as close as you can get to the North Pole. Each year, tens of thousands of visitors experience the island's dramatic landscape with its fragile beauty, including fjords, glaciers, pack-ice, the midnight sun, polar bears, reindeer, and a fantastic abundance of bird life. But who were the first tourists and how did they reach this uninhabited 'no-man's land?' Greetings from Spitsbergen traces their untold story and, with the use of many unpublished photographs and postcards from the author's own collection, presents a unique insight into the 'golden era' of arctic tourism, which lasted until 1914.
Author : Martin Conway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book No Man's Land written by Martin Conway and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P.J. Capelotti
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078646237X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Svalbard Archipelago written by P.J. Capelotti and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norway's Spitsbergen Archipelago, known as Svalbard to the Norwegians, is of increasing interest to Arctic scholars and geographers, as well as to military historians and analysts of strategy. It was the farthest northern battleground between German and Allied forces in World War II; it became a political arena for Soviet and U.S. competition during the Cold War; it is now a field of conflict for fishing rights and cultural resource protection; and it serves as a laboratory for the study of global warming. This unique island group occupies a fascinating place in European, Russian, and American affairs. Here, for the first time, is the complete report compiled by U.S. Intelligence at the beginning of World War II evaluating the islands both geographically and militarily, as well as a report on the archipelago produced by the CIA in 1950. This comprehensive report--never superseded in the years since--has been edited and introduced by P.J. Capelotti. It provides in great detail the American perspective on these islands and their strategic, economic, and geologic value. Maps and illustrations are included, some from the original report, some new. A glossary covers Arctic terms.
Author : Roland Huntford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0826423388
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Two Planks and a Passion written by Roland Huntford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roland Huntford's brilliant history begins 20,000 years ago in the last ice age on the icy tundra of an unformed earth. Man is a travelling animal, and on these icy slopes skiing began as a means of survival. That it has developed into the leisure and sporting pursuit of choice by so much of the globe bears testament to its elemental appeal. In polar exploration, it has changed the course of history. Elsewhere, in war and peace, it has done so too. The origins of skiing are bound up in with the emergence of modern man and the world we live in today.
Author : Francis Fisher Browne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Dial written by Francis Fisher Browne and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Natural Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Library of the Alpine Club written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alpine Club (London, England). Library
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Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Library of the Alpine Club written by Alpine Club (London, England). Library and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alison Bashford
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231519524
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Global Population written by Alison Bashford and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the "population bomb" in 1968. It arose in the aftermath of World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching ecological, agricultural, economic, and geopolitical consequences. The world population problem concerned the fertility of soil as much as the fertility of women, always involving both "earth" and "life." Global Population traces the idea of a world population problem as it evolved from the 1920s through the 1960s. The growth and distribution of the human population over the planet's surface came deeply to shape the characterization of "civilizations" with different standards of living. It forged the very ideas of development, demographically defined three worlds, and, for some, an aspirational "one world." Drawing on international conference transcripts and personal and organizational archives, this book reconstructs the twentieth-century population problem in terms of migration, colonial expansion, globalization, and world food plans. Population was a problem in which international relations and intimate relations were one. Global Population ultimately shows how a geopolitical problem about sovereignty over land morphed into a biopolitical solution, entailing sovereignty over one's person.
Author : Hugh Raffles
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0804198012
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Book of Unconformities written by Hugh Raffles and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the acclaimed Insectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present When Hugh Raffles’s two sisters died suddenly within a few weeks of each other, he reached for rocks, stones, and other seemingly solid objects as anchors in a world unmoored, as ways to make sense of these events through stories far larger than his own. A moving, profound, and affirming meditation, The Book of Unconformities is grounded in stories of stones: Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattan’s Lenape, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived with six Inuit adventurers in the exuberant but fractious New York City of 1897. As Raffles follows these fundamental objects, unearthing the events they’ve engendered, he finds them losing their solidity and becoming as capricious, indifferent, and willful as time itself.
