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Author : Margo McLoone
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9781560655084
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Women Explorers in Polar Regions written by Margo McLoone and published by Capstone. This book was released on 1997 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Briefly describes the lives and travels of five women who explored the polar regions.
Author : Felicity Aston
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0857659790
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (576 download)
Download or read book Alone in Antarctica written by Felicity Aston and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 34, Felicity Aston became the first woman to cross Antarctica alone. Frozen into her facemask, she battled desperate weather and raced to reach the coast before the last flight out. This gripping and inspirational account shows what you can achieve when you grit your teeth and decide just to get through today in one piece.
Author : Kari Herbert
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1926812638
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Polar Wives written by Kari Herbert and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives and adventures of seven intrepid women are revealed in “this gem of a book . . . as captivating as the northern landscape itself” (Portland Book Review). Polar explorers were the superstars of the "heroic age" of exploration, a period spanning the Victorian and Edwardian eras. In Polar Wives, Kari Herbert reveals the unpredictable, often heartbreaking lives of seven remarkable women whose husbands became world-famous for their Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. As the daughter of a polar explorer, Herbert brings a unique and intimate perspective to these stories. In her portraits of the gifted sculptor Kathleen Scott; eccentric traveler Jane Franklin; spirited poet Eleanor Anne Franklin; Jo Peary, the first white woman to travel and give birth in the High Arctic; talented and determined Emily Shackleton; Norwegian singer Eva Nansen; and her own mother, writer and pioneer Marie Herbert, Kari Herbert blends deeply personal accounts of longing, betrayal, and hope with stories of peril and adventure. Previously consigned to historical footnotes, these pioneering women played vital roles in their husbands' expeditions. Their stories—many drawn from previously unpublished journals and letters—take us not only to the polar wastelands but also through war-torn Macedonia, the lawless outback of Australia, and the plague-riddled ancient cities of the Holy Land.
Author : Kari Herbert
Publisher : Saraband
ISBN 13 : 9781908643216
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Heart of the Hero written by Kari Herbert and published by Saraband. This book was released on 2013 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published as: Polar wives by Greystone Books, Vancouver, BC, 2012.
Author : Lisa Bloom
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816620937
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Gender on Ice written by Lisa Bloom and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In this book, Bloom takes what might seem a very localized subject and shows how it opens up to all the central questions today in cultural studies around gender, nationhood, the politics of imperialism, race, male homosocial behavior, and the sociality of science. Gender on Ice has an eloquence and elegance that positively refreshing and the prose is stylish, engaging, and direct.' -Dana Polan, University of Pittsburgh
Author : Joanna Kafarowski
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459739728
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame written by Joanna Kafarowski and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2017-11-04 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive biography of Louise Arner Boyd — the intrepid American socialite who reinvented herself as the leading female polar explorer of the twentieth century. Born in the late 1880s to a gritty mining magnate who made his millions in the California gold rush and a well-bred mother descended from one of New York’s distinguished families, society beauty Louise Arner Boyd was raised during a glittering era. After inheriting a staggering family fortune, she began leading a double life. She fell under the spell of the north in the late 1920s after a sailing excursion to the Arctic Ocean. Over the next three decades, she achieved international notoriety as a rugged and audacious polar explorer while maintaining her flamboyant lifestyle as a leading society woman. Yet despite organizing, financing, and directing seven daring Arctic expeditions between 1926 and 1955, she is virtually unknown today.
Author : Jade Hameister
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
ISBN 13 : 125031769X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Polar Explorer written by Jade Hameister and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polar Explorer is an inspiring and empowering story by sixteen-year-old Jade Hameister, chronicling her feat of being the youngest person to complete the Polar Hat Trick... From her first trip to Everest Base Camp as a young woman, Jade Hameister knew what she wanted to achieve - the impossible. Jade began her quest to complete the Polar Hat Trick in April 2016 when she was fourteen. She became the youngest person to ski to the North Pole from anywhere outside the last degree - the point where most people begin - and was named Australian Geographic Society’s Young Adventurer of the Year. But that was just the beginning. In June of 2017, she became the youngest woman to complete the crossing of Greenland, the second largest ice cap on the planet. On January 11, 2018, she arrived at the South Pole after an epic 37 day journey through Antarctica, becoming the youngest person to ski to both Poles and the youngest person to complete the Polar Hat Trick. This book will motivate and encourage young people to follow their dreams, no matter how impossible they may seem.
Author : Liv Arnesen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452961018
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book No Horizon Is So Far written by Liv Arnesen and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of the first two women to cross Antarctica The fascinating chronicle of Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft’s dramatic journey as the first two women to cross Antarctica, No Horizon Is So Far follows the explorers from the planning of their expedition through their brutal trek from the Norwegian sector all the way to McMurdo Station as they walked, skied, and ice-sailed for almost three months in temperatures reaching as low as -35°F, all while towing their 250-pound supply sledges across 1,700 miles of ice full of dangerous crevasses. Through website transmissions and satellite phone calls, Ann and Liv, two former schoolteachers, were able to broadcast their expedition to more than three million students in sixty-five countries to teach geography, science, and the importance of following your dreams.
Author : Roald Amundsen
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Roald Amundsen written by Roald Amundsen and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran. This book was released on 1927 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography.
Author : Sue Riches
Publisher : Eye Books (US&CA)
ISBN 13 : 1908646063
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Frigid Women written by Sue Riches and published by Eye Books (US&CA). This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Men like to conquer, fight, or subdue the Arctic, while we had a different attitude. We felt that we had to go along with what we were faced with. . . . We tried to have the Arctic on our side instead of confronting it." In 1997 a group of 20 women set out to become the world's first all-female expedition to the North Pole, hoping to raise awareness and support for sufferers of cancer and other illnesses. Sue Riches, recently recovering from a mastectomy, and her daughter Victoria were among them, and this is their inspirational story of personal accomplishment.
Author : Sarah Moss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933346205
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (462 download)
Download or read book The Frozen Ship written by Sarah Moss and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Polar expeditions have generated a literature with its own history and style. The Frozen Ship is a thorough and thought-provoking examination of some of the most influential, popular, and intriguing accounts of journeys into the eternal ice--from Viking settlers and Renaissance conquerors to Robert Falcon Scott's meticulous account of his own dying, and from the tales of Parry, Franklin, Nansen, Shackleton, and Byrd to the journals of little-known explorers, missionaries, and archaeologists from Europe and North America. The Frozen Ship considers the morbid fascination with expeditions that went horribly wrong and the even greater interest attached to those that were rescued at the last minute"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Wendy Trusler
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062395041
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)
Download or read book The Antarctic Book of Cooking and Cleaning written by Wendy Trusler and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stunning chronicle of the first civilian Antarctic clean-up project, with contemporary and historic anecdotes and photographs, journal entries, and more than forty delicious recipes, is an intricately woven ode to the last wilderness. With more than 130 full-color photographs
Author : Margo McLoone
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9781560655060
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Women Explorers in Asia written by Margo McLoone and published by Capstone. This book was released on 1997 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Briefly describes the lives and travels of five women who explored such places as Tibet, Iran, and the steppes of Russia.
Author : Sunniva Sorby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781956470031
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Hearts in the Ice written by Sunniva Sorby and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearts in the Ice is a story of adventure and action, courage and connection, sustainability and survival. Hilde and Sunniva will take you inside their personal accounts of a year of surviving and thriving in a rustic trappers cabin 140 km away from the nearest town-a pivotal moment in Svalbard history; a quick peek at the female explorers who came before them and a testament to the power of community and collaboration.
Author : Shane McCorristine
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787352455
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book The Spectral Arctic written by Shane McCorristine and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships.
Author : Edith Maslin Ronne
Publisher : Celebrity Profiles Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781575792989
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (929 download)
Download or read book Antarctica's First Lady written by Edith Maslin Ronne and published by Celebrity Profiles Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of the first American woman to set foot on the Antarctic continent and winter-over.
Author : Felicity Aston
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1623545536
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)
Download or read book Polar Exposure written by Felicity Aston and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspiring account of a diverse all-women’s expedition to the North Pole reveals the highs and lows of record-breaking, modern-day exploration. “A wonderful collaboration both on the Arctic ice and onto the page. Each team members voice arises to offer a view beyond the physical giving us the essence of a unique adventure.” Ann Bancroft, first woman to reach the North Pole and coauthor of No Horizon Is So Far: Two Women and Their Historic Journey across Antarctica When British Explorer Felicity Aston put out an open call for women with little to no experience willing to brave the elements on an expedition to the North Pole, she was stunned to have over 1000 applicants. After narrowing it down to ten women from ten different countries—some of whom had never seen snow before—the team spent the next two years training for this unique opportunity. Each member of the team tells part of the story in her own words, chronicling their grueling preparation in Iceland and Oman, the anticipation for the journey, and the terrifying conditions of the Arctic. Set against a backdrop of Arctic pack ice that is thinner, newer, and less stable than ever before due to climate change—the team face the realities of hungry polar bears, extreme temperatures, and the possibility that anything and everything could go wrong at any moment. Aston beautifully weaves each woman’s account into the greater expedition narrative, reminding readers of the teamwork needed to complete such a feat. Over 60 stunning photographs illustrate the journey, illuminating the breathtaking landscape along with the joy, pain, and determination of these ten women. Polar Exposure is a powerful celebration of the perseverance of women in science, sports, and exploration that sheds light on all that it takes to reach the top of the world.
