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Total Pages : 192 pages
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Download or read book Barrow Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fergus Fleming
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802197558
Total Pages : 733 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Barrow's Boys written by Fergus Fleming and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Ninety Degrees North, a spellbinding account of how officers of the British Navy explored the world after the Napoleonic Wars. In 1816, John Barrow, second secretary to the British admiralty, launched the most ambitious program of exploration the world has ever seen. For the next thirty years, his handpicked teams of elite British naval officers scoured the globe from the Arctic to Antarctica, their mission: to fill the blanks that littered the atlases of the day. Barrow’s Boys is the spellbinding story of these adventurers, the perils they faced—including eating mice, their shoes, and even each other to survive—and the challenges they overcame on their odysseys into the unknown. Many of these expeditions are considered the greatest in history, and here they’ve been collected into one volume that captures the full sweep of Barrow’s program. “Here is all the adventure you could want, stirringly and generously told.” —Anthony Brandt, National Geographic Adventure “History at its most romantic.” —The Columbus Dispatch “A sure bet for fans of Caroline Alexander’s The Endurance, this captivating survey of England’s exploration during the nineteenth century illuminates a host of forgotten personalities.” —Publishers Weekly “Travel history of the best kind: entertaining, informed and opinionated.” —The Sunday Times
Author : Siobhan Carroll
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812246780
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book An Empire of Air and Water written by Siobhan Carroll and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planetary spaces such as the poles, the oceans, the atmosphere, and subterranean regions captured the British imperial imagination. Intangible, inhospitable, or inaccessible, these blank spaces—what Siobhan Carroll calls "atopias"—existed beyond the boundaries of known and inhabited places. The eighteenth century conceived of these geographic outliers as the natural limits of imperial expansion, but scientific and naval advances in the nineteenth century created new possibilities to know and control them. This development preoccupied British authors, who were accustomed to seeing atopic regions as otherworldly marvels in fantastical tales. Spaces that an empire could not colonize were spaces that literature might claim, as literary representations of atopias came to reflect their authors' attitudes toward the growth of the British Empire as well as the part they saw literature playing in that expansion. Siobhan Carroll interrogates the role these blank spaces played in the construction of British identity during an era of unsettling global circulations. Examining the poetry of Samuel T. Coleridge and George Gordon Byron and the prose of Sophia Lee, Mary Shelley, and Charles Dickens, as well as newspaper accounts and voyage narratives, she traces the ways Romantic and Victorian writers reconceptualized atopias as threatening or, at times, vulnerable. These textual explorations of the earth's highest reaches and secret depths shed light on persistent facets of the British global and environmental imagination that linger in the twenty-first century.
Author : Mae Belle Barrow North
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Barrow family quarterly written by Mae Belle Barrow North and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Brandt
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307592901
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Man Who Ate His Boots written by Anthony Brandt and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled Northwest Passage. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to probe the ice-bound waters of the Canadian Arctic in search of a route, and then, after 1845, to find Sir John Franklin, the Royal Navy hero who led the last of these Admiralty expeditions. Enthralling and often harrowing, The Man Who Ate His Boots captures the glory and the folly of this ultimately tragic enterprise.
Author : Samuel Smiles
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Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Publisher and His Friends written by Samuel Smiles and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 844 pages
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Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joanna Radin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262035855
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Cryopolitics written by Joanna Radin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social, political, and cultural consequences of attempts to cheat death by freezing life. As the planet warms and the polar ice caps melt, naturally occurring cold is a resource of growing scarcity. At the same time, energy-intensive cooling technologies are widely used as a means of preservation. Technologies of cryopreservation support global food chains, seed and blood banks, reproductive medicine, and even the preservation of cores of glacial ice used to study climate change. In many cases, these practices of freezing life are an attempt to cheat death. Cryopreservation has contributed to the transformation of markets, regimes of governance and ethics, and the very relationship between life and death. In Cryopolitics, experts from anthropology, history of science, environmental humanities, and indigenous studies make clear the political and cultural consequences of extending life and deferring death by technoscientific means. The contributors examine how and why low temperatures have been harnessed to defer individual death through freezing whole human bodies; to defer nonhuman species death by freezing tissue from endangered animals; to defer racial death by preserving biospecimens from indigenous people; and to defer large-scale human death through pandemic preparedness. The cryopolitical lens, emphasizing the roles of temperature and time, provokes new and important questions about living and dying in the twenty-first century. Contributors Warwick Anderson, Michael Bravo, Jonny Bunning, Matthew Chrulew, Soraya de Chadarevian, Alexander Friedrich, Klaus Hoeyer, Frédéric Keck, Eben Kirksey, Emma Kowal, Joanna Radin, Deborah Bird Rose, Kim TallBear, Charis Thompson, David Turnbull, Thom van Dooren, Rebecca J. H. Woods
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Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Quarterly Return of Marriages, Births, and Deaths registered in the divisionsm, counties, and districts of England written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Quarterly Return of Marriages, Births and Deaths Registered in the Divisions, Countries, Districts of England and Wales written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janice Cavell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802092802
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Tracing the Connected Narrative written by Janice Cavell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through extensive research and reference to new archival material, Cavell recaptures and examines the experience of nineteenth-century readers.
Author : Huw Lewis-Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786722461
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Imagining the Arctic written by Huw Lewis-Jones and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to convince their contemporaries of the merits of polar voyages. Much of exploration was in fact theatre: a series of performances to capture public attention and persuade governments to finance ambitious proposals. The achievements of explorers were promoted, celebrated, and manipulated, whilst explorers themselves became the subject of huge attention. Huw Lewis-Jones draws upon recovered texts and striking images, many reproduced for the first time since the nineteenth century, to show how exploration was projected through a series of spectacular visuals, helping us to reconstruct the ways that heroes and the wilderness were imagined. Elegantly written and richly illustrated, Imagining the Arctic offers original insights into our understanding of exploration and its pull on the public imagination.
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Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal: ... To Be Continued Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 534 pages
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Download or read book The London Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geological Society of London
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Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (977 download)
Download or read book The Quarterly Journal written by Geological Society of London and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Scoresby
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780904180954
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger: The voyages of 1817, 1818 and 1820 written by William Scoresby and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third and final volume in the set of William Scoresby's journals. It contains the unpublished accounts of his three voyages 1817, 1818 and 1820 and includes detailed descriptions of his landings. The Introduction to this volume contains a major reappraisal of Scoresby's role, especially in regard to his alleged mistreatment by John Barrow, Second Secretary of the Admiralty. The volume also contains an appendix by Fred M. Walker on the building of wooden whaleships such as the Baffin that were capable of routine ice navigation under sail as far north as 80°N, based on Scoresby's account, as Owners' Representative, at the beginning of the 1820 journal.
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Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Littell's Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
