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Author : Olive M. (Olive May) Todd
Publisher : Elliot Lake, Ont. : Olive M. Todd
ISBN 13 : 9780968131442
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (314 download)
Download or read book To the Arctic Circle and Beyond written by Olive M. (Olive May) Todd and published by Elliot Lake, Ont. : Olive M. Todd. This book was released on 2001 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Shoalts
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735236844
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Trees written by Adam Shoalts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National bestseller A thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greatest living explorer." In the spring of 2017, Adam Shoalts, bestselling author and adventurer, set off on an unprecedented solo journey across North America's greatest wilderness. A place where, in our increasingly interconnected, digital world, it's still possible to wander for months without crossing a single road, or even see another human being. Between his starting point in Eagle Plains, Yukon Territory, to his destination in Baker Lake, Nunavut, lies a maze of obstacles: shifting ice floes, swollen rivers, fog-bound lakes, and gale-force storms. And Shoalts must time his departure by the breakup of the spring ice, then sprint across nearly 4,000 kilometers of rugged, wild terrain to arrive before winter closes in. He travels alone up raging rivers that only the most expert white-water canoeists dare travel even downstream. He must portage across fields of jagged rocks that stretch to the horizon, and navigate labyrinths of swamps, tormented by clouds of mosquitoes every step of the way. And the race against the calendar means that he cannot afford the luxuries of rest, or of making mistakes. Shoalts must trek tirelessly, well into the endless Arctic summer nights, at times not even pausing to eat. But his reward is the adventure of a lifetime. Heart-stopping, wonder-filled, and attentive to the majesty of the natural world, Beyond the Trees captures the ache for adventure that afflicts us all.
Author : George Laycock
Publisher : New York : Four Winds Press
ISBN 13 : 9780590074810
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Arctic Circle written by George Laycock and published by New York : Four Winds Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General description of the arctic, its exploration, and the Eskimos. Suitable grades 7 and up.
Author : Tracy Blom
Publisher : Blom Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781734590142
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book From Beyond written by Tracy Blom and published by Blom Publications. This book was released on 2021-05-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melting ice caps in the Arctic are causing a polar bear frenzy! Two "out of this world" visitors see a code red and come to Earth bearing life-changing technology but they can't save the Arctic alone.This book is inspired by scientist Leslie Field, CEO of Arctic Ice Project, and her groundbreaking work to save the Arctic.
Author : Dan Bar-el
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534433457
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Just Beyond the Very, Very Far North written by Dan Bar-el and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duane the polar bear and the other animals of the very, very far north find their friendships deepening as they are challenged by the arrival of a contentious weasel and an unexpected departure.
Author : Alexis S. Troubetzkoy
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Arctic Obsession: the Lure of the Far North written by Alexis S. Troubetzkoy and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than an account of the human delusion and fortitude in penetrating one of the most inhospitable areas of the world, Arctic Obsession goes beyond the gripping history of northern exploration, of the searches for the Northwest and Northeast Passages. From early medieval times to the twenty-first century, what has been the beguiling attraction of the North? What manner of men were they who boldly ventured into those hostile and unpredictable regions, scores never to return home, swallowed up by the merciless north. Today's Arctic is developing into tomorrows hot spot. Arctic Obsession dwells on contemporary issues besetting the most fragile part of our globe global warming and environmental, ecological and geo-political concerns. The book also provides an overview of the entire Arctic region, from Canada, Russia, and Alaska to Greenland, Iceland, and the North Sea.
Author : Christopher P. Heuer
Publisher : Zone Books
ISBN 13 : 1942130147
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Into the White written by Christopher P. Heuer and published by Zone Books. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the far North offered a different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imagination. European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet, as Christopher Heuer explains, between 1500 and 1700, one region upended all of these conventions in travel writing, science, and, most unexpectedly, art: the Arctic. Icy, unpopulated, visually and temporally “abstract,” the far North—a different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imagination—offered more than new stuff to be mapped, plundered, or even seen. Neither a continent, an ocean, nor a meteorological circumstance, the Arctic forced visitors from England, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy, to grapple with what we would now call a “non-site,” spurring dozens of previously unknown works, objects, and texts—and this all in an intellectual and political milieu crackling with Reformation debates over art's very legitimacy. In Into the White, Heuer uses five case studies to probe how the early modern Arctic (as site, myth, and ecology) affected contemporary debates over perception and matter, representation, discovery, and the time of the earth—long before the nineteenth century Romanticized the polar landscape. In the far North, he argues, the Renaissance exotic became something far stranger than the marvelous or the curious, something darkly material and impossible to be mastered, something beyond the idea of image itself.
Author : Norman L. Amor
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Beyond the Arctic Circle written by Norman L. Amor and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description of the books, maps and manuscripts in the Arctic collections of the University of British Columbia Library (Special Collections and Archives) including the collections of A.J.T. Taylor.
Author : Chih Y. Woon
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839108215
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Observing’ the Arctic written by Chih Y. Woon and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the growing economic, political, and cultural presence of Asian states in the Arctic region, this timely book looks at how that presence is being evaluated and engaged with by Arctic states and their northern communities. A diverse range of authors addresses the question that underpins so much of this interest in Asian engagement with the northern latitudes: what do Asian countries want to gain from the Arctic?
Author : Michael D. Pitt
Publisher : Agio Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1897435363
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (974 download)
Download or read book Beyond the End of the Road written by Michael D. Pitt and published by Agio Publishing House. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Kathleen and Michael Pitt as they leave the comfort and temperate climate of suburban Vancouver to spend an isolated winter north of the Arctic Circle. With neither power nor running water, over 40 kilometres from the nearest community of 75 people, this middle-aged couple learns to embrace temperatures that regularly fall below minus 40 degrees. From their home base in a small, one-room cabin, they seek the challenge of winter camping and the adventure of expeditions across the ice. In January 1999, the Pitts flew by Twin Otter to Colville Lake to pursue Michael's life-long dream of living beyond the reach of roads and concrete. By the time the ice went out of the lakes and rivers in mid-June, their lives had been changed forever. Michael and Kathleen Pitt had been paddling the rivers of Northern Canada for ten years. Yet their experience seemed incomplete. Summer is for visitors. Michael needed to spend a winter in the North, where rivers, lakes and muskeg remain frozen for 7 to 8 months of the year. Only by following the winter trail did Michael believe that he could truly know the character and soul of Canada's vast, seemingly limitless Northern landscape. "A mesmerizing account of the North's beauty and the winter Michael and his wife Kathleen lived in a tiny cabin above the Arctic Circle. Well-written and insightful, this book will delight anyone who has explored the northern latitudes or dreams of doing so." -- Julie Angus, author of Rowboat in a Hurricane: My Amazing Journey Across a Changing Atlantic Ocean "Personal, humorous and witty, Pitt has crafted an Ode to Winter, sharing with us practical tips of wintercraft, philosophical musings and personal observations on life, the North and the majesty of Winter." -- Alan Fehr, 21-year resident of Arctic Canada and Superintendent of Prince Albert and Elk Island National Parks About the author, Michael D. Pitt Born and raised in California, Michael D. Pitt emigrated to Canada in 1975 to accept a position at the University of British Columbia as a professor of grassland ecology in the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, where he eventually served as associate dean for eight years. In 1981 he married Kathleen, who worked at the university as an administrator in Information Technology Services. The lure of a rural lifestyle, however, with golden sun reflecting on winter snow, inevitably proved irresistible. Kathleen said goodbye to commute traffic, deadlines, memos and office walls in 2000. Michael escaped 18 months later. They now live on 565 acres in the Aspen Parkland near Preeceville, Saskatchewan, where sled dogs Brownie, Grey, Sailor and Slick help them operate Meadow's Edge Bed & Breakfast. Kathleen and Michael Pitt are authors of Three Seasons in the Wind: 950 km by Canoe Down Northern Canada's Thelon River, published in 1999.
Author : Birgitta Evengård
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319176021
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)
Download or read book The New Arctic written by Birgitta Evengård and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 18th century explorers and scientists started venturing into the Arctic in a heroic and sometimes deadly effort to understand and unveil the secrets of the unforgiving and mysterious polar region of the high north. Despite that the Arctic was already populated mattered less for the first wave of polar researchers and explorations who nevertheless, brought back valuable knowledge. Today the focus in Arctic science and discourse has changed to one which includes the peoples and societies, and their interaction with the world beyond. The image of a static Arctic - heralded first by explorers - prevailed for a long time, but today the eyes of the World see the Arctic very differently. Few, if any, other places on Earth are currently experiencing the kind of dramatic change witnessed in the Arctic. According to model forecasts, these changes are likely to have profound implications on biophysical and human systems, and will accelerate in the decades to come. “The New Arctic” highlights how, and in what parts, the natural and political system is being transformed. We’re talking about a region where demography, culture, and political and economic systems are increasingly diverse, although many common interests and aspects remain; and with the new Arctic now firmly placed in a global context. Settlements range from small, predominantly indigenous communities, to large industrial cities, and all have a link to the surrounding environment, be it glaciers or vegetation or the ocean itself. “The New Arctic” contributes to our further understanding of the changing Arctic. It offers a range of perspectives, which reflect the deep insight of a variety of scientific scholars across many disciplines bringing a wide range of expertise. The book speaks to a broad audience, including policy-makers, students and scientific colleagues.
Author : Nick Jans
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 0882408992
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (824 download)
Download or read book A Place Beyond written by Nick Jans and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Place Beyond, Nick Jans leads us into his “found” home—the Eskimo village of Ambler, Alaska, and the vast wilderness around it. In his powerful essays, the rhythms of daily arctic life blend with high adventure—camping among wolves, traveling with Iñupiat hunters, witnessing the Kobuk River at breakup. The poignancy of a village funeral comes to life, hordes of mosquitoes whine against a tent, a grizzly stands etched against the snow—just a sampling of the images and events rendered in Jan’s transparent, visual prose. Moments of humor are offset by haunting insights, and by thoughtful reflections on contemporary Iñupiat culture, making A Place Beyond a book to savor.
Author : Harmon Helmericks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Arctic Circle written by Harmon Helmericks and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Harvey Ralphson
Publisher : Chicago : M.A. Donahue
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Boy Scouts Beyond the Arctic Circle written by George Harvey Ralphson and published by Chicago : M.A. Donahue. This book was released on 1913 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph James Shomon
Publisher : South Brunswick, N.J. : A.S. Barnes ; London : T. Yoseloff
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Beyond the North Wind written by Joseph James Shomon and published by South Brunswick, N.J. : A.S. Barnes ; London : T. Yoseloff. This book was released on 1974 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eugene Rodgers
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612511880
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Barrier written by Eugene Rodgers and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released private papers. Previous books on the legendary polar explorer had to rely on sources subject to the admiral's vigilant censorship or the control of his heirs and friends. With this study Eugene Rodgers provides a scrupulously honest and objective account of Byrd's 1929 expedition to Antarctica. Without discrediting the expedition's success or Byrd's leadership, Rodgers shows that the admiral was not the saintly hero he and the press depicted. Nor was the expedition without its problems. Interviews with surviving members of the expedition together with a wealth of other new material indicate that Byrd, contrary to his claims, was not a good navigator--his pilots usually had to find their way by dead reckoning--and that he was not on the actual flight that discovered Marie Byrd Land. The book further reveals a crisis over drunkenness among the men (including Byrd), the admiral's fear of mutiny, and his rewriting of news stories from the pole to embellish his own image.
Author : Monica Newlands
Publisher : Melrose Book Company
ISBN 13 : 9781907040092
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Trees written by Monica Newlands and published by Melrose Book Company. This book was released on 2010 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story captures the rhythms of daily life of a young Caribbean woman and other southerners in a remote Arctic community and the adventures, challenges, and humorous anecdotes which come with life in such circumstances.
