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Author : James Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Antarctic Days written by James Murray and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Day
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191650072
Total Pages : 1794 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Antarctica written by David Day and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 1794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries it was suspected that there must be an undiscovered continent in the southern hemisphere. But explorers failed to find one. On his second voyage to the Pacific, Captain Cook sailed further south than any of his rivals but still failed to sight land. It was not until 1820 that the continent's frozen coast was finally sighted. Territorial rivalry intensified in the 1840s when British, American, and French expeditions sailed south to chart further portions of the continent that had come to be called Antarctica. For the nearly two centuries since, the race to claim exclusive possession of Antarctica has gripped the imagination of the world. Antarctica: A Biography is the first ever major international history of this forbidding continent - from the eighteenth century voyages of discovery to the fierce rivalries of today, as governments, scientists, environmentalists, and oil companies compete for control. On one level it is the story of explorers battling the elements in the most hostile place on earth as they strive for personal triumph, commercial gain, and national glory. On a deeper level, it is the story of nations seeking to incorporate the Antarctic into their own national stories - and to claim its frozen wastes as their own.
Author : Chris Turney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0806538538
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Iced in written by Chris Turney and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Christmas Eve 2013, off the coast of East Antarctica, an abrupt weather change trapped the Shokalskiy-- the ship carrying earth scientist Chris Turney and seventy-one others involved in the Australasian Antarctic Expedition--in a densely packed armada of sea ice, 1400 miles from civilization. With the ship's hull breached and steerage lost, the wind threatened to drive the vessel into the frozen continent, smashing it to pieces. If nearby floating icebergs picked up speed, they could cause a devastating collision, leaving little time to abandon ship and potentially creating an environmental disaster. The forecast offered no relief--a blizzard was headed their way.
Author : Jason C. Anthony
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803244746
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Hoosh written by Jason C. Anthony and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antarctica, the last place on Earth, is not famous for its cuisine. Yet it is famous for stories of heroic expeditions in which hunger was the one spice everyone carried. At the dawn of Antarctic cuisine, cooks improvised under inconceivable hardships, castaways ate seal blubber and penguin breasts while fantasizing about illustrious feasts, and men seeking the South Pole stretched their rations to the breaking point. Today, Antarctica’s kitchens still wait for provisions at the far end of the planet’s longest supply chain. Scientific research stations serve up cafeteria fare that often offers more sustenance than style. Jason C. Anthony, a veteran of eight seasons in the U.S. Antarctic Program, offers a rare workaday look at the importance of food in Antarctic history and culture. Anthony’s tour of Antarctic cuisine takes us from hoosh (a porridge of meat, fat, and melted snow, often thickened with crushed biscuit) and the scurvy-ridden expeditions of Shackleton and Scott through the twentieth century to his own preplanned three hundred meals (plus snacks) for a two-person camp in the Transantarctic Mountains. The stories in Hoosh are linked by the ingenuity, good humor, and indifference to gruel that make Anthony’s tale as entertaining as it is enlightening.
Author : Harold Fletcher
Publisher : Angus & Robertson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Antarctic Days with Mawson written by Harold Fletcher and published by Angus & Robertson. This book was released on 1984 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781852971144
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Antarctic Days written by James Murray and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernadette Hince
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 9780957747111
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (471 download)
Download or read book The Antarctic Dictionary written by Bernadette Hince and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2000 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most isolated continent has spawned some of the most unusual words in the English language. This comprehensive guide to the origins and definitions of such words as donga and growler, is supported by more than 15,000 quotations drawn from over 1000 sources. A treat for anyone who's ever dreamed of visiting Antarctica.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Antarctic Journal of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ella Bailey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912497096
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)
Download or read book One Day on Our Blue Planet 2 written by Ella Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: View more details of this book at www.walkerbooks.com.au
Author : Beau Riffenburgh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415970245
Total Pages : 1274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Antarctic written by Beau Riffenburgh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Evelyn Dowdeswell
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
ISBN 13 : 1432968912
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (329 download)
Download or read book Scott of the Antarctic written by Evelyn Dowdeswell and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2012 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Antarctica and Robert Scott's epic expedition to the South Pole.
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 : Barbara Taylor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0789458500
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (894 download)
Download or read book Arctic & Antarctic written by Barbara Taylor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows and describes wildlife found in the Polar regions, looks at Inuit clothing and artifacts, and depicts the equipment used by Polar explorers.
Author : David Day
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199861463
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Antarctica written by David Day and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-03 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first sailing ships spied the Antarctic coastline in 1820, the frozen continent has captured the world's imagination. David Day's brilliant biography of Antarctica describes in fascinating detail every aspect of this vast land's history--two centuries of exploration, scientific investigation, and contentious geopolitics. Drawing from archives from around the world, Day provides a sweeping, large-scale history of Antarctica. Focusing on the dynamic personalities drawn to this unconquered land, the book offers an engaging collective biography of explorers and scientists battling the elements in the most hostile place on earth. We see intrepid sea captains picking their way past icebergs and pushing to the edge of the shifting pack ice, sanguinary sealers and whalers drawn south to exploit "the Penguin El Dorado," famed nineteenth-century explorers like Scott and Amundson in their highly publicized race to the South Pole, and aviators like Clarence Ellsworth and Richard Byrd, flying over great stretches of undiscovered land. Yet Antarctica is also the story of nations seeking to incorporate the Antarctic into their national narratives and to claim its frozen wastes as their own. As Day shows, in a place as remote as Antarctica, claiming land was not just about seeing a place for the first time, or raising a flag over it; it was about mapping and naming and, more generally, knowing its geographic and natural features. And ultimately, after a little-known decision by FDR to colonize Antarctica, claiming territory meant establishing full-time bases on the White Continent. The end of the Second World War would see one last scramble for polar territory, but the onset of the International Geophysical Year in 1957 would launch a cooperative effort to establish scientific bases across the continent. And with the Antarctic Treaty, science was in the ascendant, and cooperation rather than competition was the new watchword on the ice. Tracing history from the first sighting of land up to the present day, Antarctica is a fascinating exploration of this deeply alluring land and man's struggle to claim it.
Author : David Day
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190641339
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Antarctica written by David Day and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this addition to the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, David Day examines the most forbidding and formidably inaccessible continent on Earth. For over a century following its discovery by European explorers in 1820, Antarctica played host to competing claims by rival nations vying for access to the frozen land's vast marine resources -- namely the skins and oils of seals and whales. Though the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 was meant to end this contention, countries have found other means of extending control over the land, with scientific bases establishing at least symbolic claims. Exploration and drilling by the United States, Great Britain, Russia, Japan, and others has led to discoveries about the world's climate in centuries past -- and in the process intimations of its alarming future. Delving into all the relevant issues -- the history of the continent, its wildlife, underwater mountain ranges, arguments over governance, and the continent's effect on global climate change -- Day's work sheds new light on a territory that, despite being the coldest, driest, and windiest continent in the world, will continue to be the object of intense speculation and competition. With new evidence that Antarctica's ice is melting three times faster than it was a decade ago, the need to understand the world's southernmost region has never been more pressing.
Author : Douglas Mawson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1409224643
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 written by Douglas Mawson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mawson turned down an invitation to join Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition in 1910; Australian geologist Griffith Taylor went instead. Dawson chose to lead his own expedition, the Australian Antarctic Expedition, to King George V Land and Adelie Land, the sector of the Antarctic continent immediately south of Australia, which at the time was almost entirely unexplored. The objectives were to carry out geographical exploration and scientific studies, including visiting the South Magnetic Pole.
Author : Ben Macintyre
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408819902
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Double Cross written by Ben Macintyre and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D-Dag var ikke kun et resultat af synlige militære operationer, men også i høj grad af efterretningsvæsen og dobbeltagenter
