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Weird and Tragic Shores

Author : Chauncey Loomis
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 037575525X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Weird and Tragic Shores written by Chauncey Loomis and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2000-04-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1860, fifteen years after Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition disappeared in the Arctic, a Cincinnati businessman named Charles Francis Hall set out to locate and rescue the expedition's survivors. He was an amateur explorer, without any scientific training or experience, but he was driven by a sense of personal destiny and of religious and patriotic mission. Despite the odds against him, he made three forays into the far North, the final--and fatal--one taking him farther north than any westerner had ever gone before. But Hall was suddenly taken ill on that voyage and died under mysterious circumstances. Ninety-seven years later, Chauncey Loomis headed an expedition to Hall's grave in northwestern Greenland. He exhumed Hall's frozen body and performed an autopsy. His findings suggest that the investigators of Hall's death nervously sidestepped the damning evidence. Loomis has written a masterful biography-cum-mystery that brilliantly evokes the lure of the Arctic and the brutal contest between man and nature. With a new Introduction by Andrea Barrett, author of The Voyage of the Narwhal

Tragic Shores: A Memoir Of Dark Travel

Author : Thomas Cook
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784295574
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Tragic Shores: A Memoir Of Dark Travel written by Thomas Cook and published by Quercus Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I have come to thank dark places for the light they bring to life.' Thomas Cook has always been drawn to dark places, for the powerful emotions they evoke and for what we can learn from them. These lessons are often unexpected and sometimes profoundly intimate, but they are never straightforward. With his wife and daughter, Cook travels across the globe in search of darkness - from Lourdes to Ghana, from San Francisco to Verdun, from the monumental, mechanised horror of Auschwitz to the intimate personal grief of a shrine to dead infants in Kamukura, Japan. Along the way he reflects on what these sites may teach us, not only about human history, but about our own personal histories. During the course of a lifetime of traveling to some of earth's most tragic shores, from the leper colony on Molokai to ground zero at Hiroshima, he finds not darkness alone, but a light that can illuminate the darkness within each of us. Written in vivid prose, this is at once a personal memoir of exploration (both external and internal), and a strangely heartening look at the radiance that may be found at the very heart of darkness.

Tragic Shores: A Memoir of Dark Travel

Author : Thomas Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781784292423
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Tragic Shores: A Memoir of Dark Travel written by Thomas Cook and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Tragedy of the Deserted Isle

Author : Warren Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Tragedy of the Deserted Isle written by Warren Wood and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Unknown Shore

Author : Robert Ruby
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466873418
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Unknown Shore written by Robert Ruby and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of how the first English colony in the New World was lost to history, then found again three hundred years later. England's first attempt at colonizing the New World was not at Roanoke or Jamestown, but on a mostly frozen small island in the Canadian Arctic. Queen Elizabeth I called that place Meta Incognita -- the Unknown Shore. Backed by Elizabeth I and her key advisors, including the legendary spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and the shadowy Dr. John Dee, the erstwhile pirate Sir Martin Frobisher set out three times across the North Atlantic, in the process leading what is still the largest Arctic expedition in history. In this forbidding place, Frobisher believed he had discovered vast quantities of gold, the fabled Northwest Passage to the riches of Cathay, and a suitable place for a year-round colony. But Frobisher's dream turned into a nightmare, and his colony was lost to history for nearly three centuries. In this brilliantly conceived dual narrative, Robert Ruby interweaves Frobisher's saga with that of the nineteenth-century American Charles Francis Hall, whose explorations of this same landscape enabled him to hear the oral history of the Inuit, passed down through generations. It was these stories that unlocked the mystery of Frobisher's lost colony. Unknown Shore is the story of two men's travels, and of what these men shared three centuries apart. Ultimately, it is a tale of men driven by greed and ambition, of the hard labor of exploration, of the Inuit and their land, and of great gambles gone wrong.

Water and Ice

Author : Arthur S. Mattson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615294391
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (943 download)

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Download or read book Water and Ice written by Arthur S. Mattson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tragic Passages

Author : Roland Racevskis
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838756843
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book Tragic Passages written by Roland Racevskis and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a theoretically informed reading of Racine's nine secular tragedies, from La Thebaide (1664) to Phedre (1677). This study focuses on literary/theatrical constructions of space, time, and identity.

Tragic Shores

Author : Thomas H. Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849163262
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Tragic Shores written by Thomas H. Cook and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I have come to thank dark places for the light they bring to life.' Thomas Cook has always been drawn to dark places, for the powerful emotions they evoke and for what we can learn from them. These lessons are often unexpected and sometimes profoundly intimate, but never straightforward. Along with his wife and daughter, Cook travels across the globe in search of darkness - from Hawaii to Ghana, from San Francisco to Verdun, from the monumental, mechanised horror of Auschwitz to the intimate personal grief of a shrine to dead infants in Kamukura, Japan. Along the way he reflects on what these sites tell us about the history and the present of the countries they belong to, but also what they tell us about what it means to be human - and even at the sites of some of humanity's worst deeds, there are still reasons for optimism. Written in vivid prose, this is at once a personal memoir of exploration (both external and internal), and a strangely heartening look at the comforts that can be won when we confront mankind's heart of darkness.

Rival Caesars

Author : Desmond Dilg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Rival Caesars written by Desmond Dilg and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Strangers Among Us

Author : David Charles Woodman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773513488
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Strangers Among Us written by David Charles Woodman and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Woodman re-evaluates the importance of Inuit oral traditions in his search to reconstruct the events surrounding Sir John Franklin's tragic 1845 expedition. He shows that often-misunderstood tales of white men travelling through Inuit lands may in fact refer to survivors of the Franklin expedition.

The Dynamics of Disaster

Author : Susan W. Kieffer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039308969X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Dynamics of Disaster written by Susan W. Kieffer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you are an amateur weather geek, disaster wonk, or budding student of earth sciences, you will want to read this book." —Seattle Times In 2011, there were fourteen natural calamities that each destroyed over a billion dollars’ worth of property in the United States alone. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast and major earthquakes struck in Italy, the Philippines, Iran, and Afghanistan. In the first half of 2013, the awful drumbeat continued—a monster supertornado struck Moore, Oklahoma; a powerful earthquake shook Sichuan, China; a cyclone ravaged Queensland, Australia; massive floods inundated Jakarta, Indonesia; and the largest wildfire ever engulfed a large part of Colorado. Despite these events, we still behave as if natural disasters are outliers. Why else would we continue to build new communities near active volcanoes, on tectonically active faults, on flood plains, and in areas routinely lashed by vicious storms? A famous historian once observed that "civilization exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice." In the pages of this unique book, leading geologist Susan W. Kieffer provides a primer on most types of natural disasters: earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, landslides, hurricanes, cyclones, and tornadoes. By taking us behind the scenes of the underlying geology that causes them, she shows why natural disasters are more common than we realize, and that their impact on us will increase as our growing population crowds us into ever more vulnerable areas. Kieffer describes how natural disasters result from "changes in state" in a geologic system, much as when water turns to steam. By understanding what causes these changes of state, we can begin to understand the dynamics of natural disasters. In the book’s concluding chapter, Kieffer outlines how we might better prepare for, and in some cases prevent, future disasters. She also calls for the creation of an organization, something akin to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but focused on pending natural disasters.

Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt and Barbary

Author : François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt and Barbary written by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Antarctica and the Arctic Circle [2 volumes]

Author : Andrew J. Hund
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610693930
Total Pages : 885 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Antarctica and the Arctic Circle [2 volumes] written by Andrew J. Hund and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 885 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one-stop reference is a perfect resource for anyone interested in the North and South Poles, whether their interest relates to history, wildlife, or the geography of these regions in the news today. Global warming, a hot topic among scholars of geography and science, has led to increased interest in studying the earth's polar ice caps, which seem to be melting at an alarming rate. This accessible, two-volume encyclopedia lays a foundation for understanding global warming and other issues related to the North and South Poles. Approximately 350 alphabetically arranged, user-friendly entries treat key terms and topics, important expeditions, major figures, territorial disputes, and much more. Readers will find information on the explorations of Cook, Scott, Amundsen, and Peary; articles on humpback whales, penguins, and polar bears; and explanations of natural phenomena like the Aurora Australis and the polar night. Expedition tourism is covered, as is climate change. Ideal for high school and undergraduate students studying geography, social studies, history, and earth science, the encyclopedia will provide a better understanding of these remote and unfamiliar lands and their place in today's world.

Search for the Blue Goose

Author : Constance Martin
Publisher : Calgary : Bayeux Arts
ISBN 13 : 1896209149
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Search for the Blue Goose written by Constance Martin and published by Calgary : Bayeux Arts. This book was released on 1995 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Record of an ecologist's 50,000 km Arctic trek in search of the nesting place of the 'Blue Goose'.

The News at the Ends of the Earth

Author : Hester Blum
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478004487
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The News at the Ends of the Earth written by Hester Blum and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 search for the Northwest Passage to early twentieth-century sprints to the South Pole, polar expeditions produced an extravagant archive of documents that are as varied as they are engaging. As the polar ice sheets melt, fragments of this archive are newly emergent. In The News at the Ends of the Earth Hester Blum examines the rich, offbeat collection of printed ephemera created by polar explorers. Ranging from ship newspapers and messages left in bottles to menus and playbills, polar writing reveals the seamen wrestling with questions of time, space, community, and the environment. Whether chronicling weather patterns or satirically reporting on penguin mischief, this writing provided expedition members with a set of practices to help them survive the perpetual darkness and harshness of polar winters. The extreme climates these explorers experienced is continuous with climate change today. Polar exploration writing, Blum contends, offers strategies for confronting and reckoning with the extreme environment of the present.

Great Sermons of the World

Author : Clarence Edward Noble Macartney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Great Sermons of the World written by Clarence Edward Noble Macartney and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Through the Eyes of the Vikings

Author : Robert B. Haas
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426206380
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Through the Eyes of the Vikings written by Robert B. Haas and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The noted aerial photographer trains his lenses on the landforms, wildlife, and manmade objects of the Arctic regions, capturing the dramatic and surprising diversity of brilliant colors and unexpected subjects.