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Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (594 download)
Download or read book Fast in the Ice written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth O'Connell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578336807
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (368 download)
Download or read book The Adventures of Apun the Arctic Fox written by Elizabeth O'Connell and published by . This book was released on 2017-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Freuchen
Publisher : New York : J. Messner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Adventures in the Arctic written by Peter Freuchen and published by New York : J. Messner. This book was released on 1960 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography edited posthumously by author's wife.
Author : Peter Freuchen
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787202526
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Arctic Adventure written by Peter Freuchen and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1956, this book is a memoir by Danish explorer Peter Freuchen, a close friend and travel companion of Arctic legend Knud Rasmussen, and ended up living in Greenland for fifteen years, 800 miles from the North Pole—adopting the native ways of life, marrying an Inuit woman, and having two children along the way. Arctic Adventure is filled with tales of seal and polar bear hunts, enduring starvation, encountering people who had resorted to cannibalism, and the stirring experience of seeing the sun again after three months of winter darkness. Rich in human saga, Freuchen’s warmth, wit, and literary talent make this recollection of real-life adventure stories a stand-out. “Except for Richard E. Byrd, and despite his foreign beginnings, Freuchen was perhaps better known to more people in the United States than any other explorer of our time.”—Evelyn Stefansson, The New York Times “[A] formidable and fascinating man”—Harriet Baker, AnOther Richly illustrated throughout with maps and black-and-white photographs.
Author : Zac Unger
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 030682163X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye written by Zac Unger and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I like to go out for walks, but it's a little awkward to push the baby stroller and carry a shotgun at the same time." -- housewife from Churchill, Manitoba Yes, welcome to Churchill, Manitoba. Year-round human population: 943. Yet despite the isolation and the searing cold here at the arctic's edge, visitors from around the globe flock to the town every fall, driven by a single purpose: to see polar bears in the wild. Churchill is "The Polar Bear Capital of the World," and for one unforgettable "bear season," Zac Unger, his wife, and his three children moved from Oakland, California, to make it their temporary home. But they soon discovered that it's really the polar bears who are at home in Churchill, roaming past the coffee shop on the main drag, peering into garbage cans, languorously scratching their backs against fence posts and front doorways. Where kids in other towns receive admonitions about talking to strangers, Churchill schoolchildren get "Let's All Be Bear Aware" booklets to bring home. (Lesson number 8: Never explore bad-smelling areas.) Zac Unger takes readers on a spirited and often wildly funny journey to a place as unique as it is remote, a place where natives, tourists, scientists, conservationists, and the most ferocious predators on the planet converge. In the process he becomes embroiled in the controversy surrounding "polar bear science" -- and finds out that some of what we've been led to believe about the bears' imminent extinction may not be quite the case. But mostly what he learns is about human behavior in extreme situations . . . and also why you should never even think of looking a polar bear in the eye.
Author : Chris Kurtz
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547634552
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (476 download)
Download or read book The Adventures of a South Pole Pig written by Chris Kurtz and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flora the pig was born for adventure: "If it's unexplored and needs to get dug up, call me. I'm your pig," she says. The day Flora spots a team of sled dogs is the day she sets her heart on becoming a sled pig. Before she knows it, she's on board a ship to Antarctica for the most exhilarating--and dangerous--adventure of her life. This poignant novel of a purposeful pig is sure to become a favorite with any young readers who have ever dreamed of exploring the great beyond.
Author : Alastair Humphreys
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008131945
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Grand Adventures written by Alastair Humphreys and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap’ Geographical Adventure – something that’s new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you and how you see the world, and all you need is an open mind, bags of enthusiasm and boundless curiosity. Recommended for viewing on a colour tablet.
Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022604999X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Dangerous Work written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This e-book features the complete text found in the print edition of Dangerous Work, without the illustrations or the facsimile reproductions of Conan Doyle's notebook pages. In 1880 a young medical student named Arthur Conan Doyle embarked upon the “first real outstanding adventure” of his life, taking a berth as ship’s surgeon on an Arctic whaler, the Hope. The voyage took him to unknown regions, showered him with dramatic and unexpected experiences, and plunged him into dangerous work on the ice floes of the Arctic seas. He tested himself, overcame the hardships, and, as he wrote later, “came of age at 80 degrees north latitude.” Conan Doyle’s time in the Arctic provided powerful fuel for his growing ambitions as a writer. With a ghost story set in the Arctic wastes that he wrote shortly after his return, he established himself as a promising young writer. A subsequent magazine article laying out possible routes to the North Pole won him the respect of Arctic explorers. And he would call upon his shipboard experiences many times in the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, who was introduced in 1887’s A Study in Scarlet. Out of sight for more than a century was a diary that Conan Doyle kept while aboard the whaler. Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure makes this account available for the first time. With humor and grace, Conan Doyle provides a vivid account of a long-vanished way of life at sea. His careful detailing of the experience of arctic whaling is equal parts fascinating and alarming, revealing the dark workings of the later days of the British whaling industry. In addition to the transcript of the diary, the e-book contains two nonfiction pieces by Doyle about his experiences; and two of his tales inspired by the journey. To the end of his life, Conan Doyle would look back on this experience with awe: “You stand on the very brink of the unknown,” he declared, “and every duck that you shoot bears pebbles in its gizzard which come from a land which the maps know not. It was a strange and fascinating chapter of my life.” Only now can the legion of Conan Doyle fans read and enjoy that chapter.
Author : Kathryn Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781453095522
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (955 download)
Download or read book Animals of the Polar Regions written by Kathryn Knight and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From penguins to seals to polar bears, discover some of the amazing animals that live around the frigid lands of the North and South Poles.
Author : Joanna Kafarowski
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 145973971X
Total Pages : 369 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 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louise Arner Boyd inherited the family millions in her thirties. Expected to lead a respectable life, she instead fell under the captivating spell of the north. Over the next thirty years, she organized and led seven hazardous expeditions around Greenland and was showered with international awards.
Author : Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 0711245703
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Ernest Shackleton written by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, Ernest Shackleton tells the inspiring story of this world-renowned explorer.
Author : Jack D. Ives
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781552388297
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (882 download)
Download or read book Baffin Island written by Jack D. Ives and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A geographer with extensive research experience in the Canadian North, Jack D. Ives has written a lively and informative account of several expeditions to Baffin Island during the "golden age" of federal research. In the 1960s, scientists from the Geographical Branch of Canada's Department of Energy, Mines, and Resources travelled to Baffin to study glacial geomorphology and glaciology. Their fieldwork resulted in vastly increased knowledge of the Far North-from its ice caps and glaciers to its lichens and microfossils. Drawing from the recollections of his Baffin colleagues as well as from his own memories, Ives takes readers on a remarkable adventure, describing the day-to-day experiences of the field teams in the context of both contemporary Arctic research and bureaucratic decision making. Along the way, his narrative illustrates the role played by the Cold War-era Distant Early Warning Line and other northern infrastructure, the crucial importance of his pioneering aerial photography, the unpredictable nature of planes, helicopters, and radios in Arctic regions, and of course, the vast and breathtaking scenery of the North. Baffin Island encompasses both field research and High Arctic adventure. The research trips to Baffin between 1961 and 1967 also served as a vital training ground in polar studies for university students; further, they represented a breakthrough in gender equality in government-sponsored science, thanks to the author's persistence in having women permitted on the teams. The book contains a special section detailing the subsequent professional achievements of the many researchers involved (in addition to the later career moves of Ives himself) and a chapter that delves deeper into the science behind their fieldwork in the North. Readers need not be versed in glaciology, however. Ives has produced a highly readable book that seamlessly combines research and adventure.
Author : Sally Isaacs
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1491480440
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Helen Thayer's Arctic Adventure written by Sally Isaacs and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A woman and a dog make their way to the magnetic North Pole on foot--the first trip of this nature"--
Author : Jeanne Willis
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763689440
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)
Download or read book Poles Apart written by Jeanne Willis and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everybody knows that penguins live at the South Pole and polar bears live at the North Pole. But what would happen if, one day, an adventurous family of penguins took a wrong turn and ended up at the North Pole?"--Back cover.
Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher : New York : D. Appleton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Fast in the Ice, Or, Adventures in the Polar Regions written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by New York : D. Appleton. This book was released on 1865 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Billy Connolly
Publisher : Headline Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780755318858
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (188 download)
Download or read book Journey to the Edge of the World written by Billy Connolly and published by Headline Book Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To have Billy Connolly as a personal tour guide through some of the world's most dramatic landscapes in the vast wilderness of the Arctic is to enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime experience only he can offer. In his own quintessential way, this much-loved Scottish comedian, actor, musician and self-proclaimed 'citizen of the world' takes us zig-zagging from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean via Newfoundland, Canada, the Yukon and the Northwest Passage in an epic adventure only recently made possible through global warming. With his infectious enthusiasm and idiosyncratic humour, Billy goes searching for the beauty of ordinariness and bumps into all manner of weird and wonderful people along the way. He learns how to be a bear whisperer, pans for gold with prospectors, learns how to square dance, kayaks through ice floes between fishing trips, runs bare-assed into a sweat lodge, and attempts the finer complexities of the Inuit language. He jams with fiddlers, kisses a cod, goes hunting for Big Foot, and invokes the spirit of the ancients while iceberg-harvesting. With as many laugh-out-loud moments as they are poignant ones, Journey to the Edge of the World is more than just an informative and entertaining travel guide - it is time spent exclusively in the company of an irascible national treasure.
Author : Richard E. Byrd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781447424109
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (241 download)
Download or read book Alone written by Richard E. Byrd and published by . This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The harrowing and heartfelt account of an adventurer's desire to feel true peace and isolation. Richard E. Byrd chose to stay alone in the Antarctic over the long dark nights of Antarctic winter. The following story details his battle with monoxide poisoning, depression and utter despair. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
