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Author | : Stephen Haddelsey |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2018-06-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0750988800 |
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Ever since Captain Cook first sailed into the Great Southern Ocean in 1773, mankind has sought to push back the boundaries of Antarctic exploration. The first expeditions tried simply to chart Antarctica's coastline, but then the Sixth International Geographical Congress of 1895 posed a greater challenge: the conquest of the continent itself. Though the loss of Captain Scott's Polar Party remains the most famous, many of the resulting expeditions suffered fatalities. Some men drowned; others fell into bottomless crevasses; many died in catastrophic fires; a few went mad; and yet more froze to death. Modern technology increased the pace of exploration, but aircraft and motor vehicles introduced entirely new dangers. For the first time, Icy Graves uses the tragic tales not only of famous explorers like Robert Falcon Scott and Aeneas Mackintosh but also of many lesser-known figures, both British and international, to plot the forward progress of Antarctic exploration. It tells, often in their own words, the compelling stories of the brave men and women who have fallen in what Sir Ernest Shackleton called the 'White Warfare of the South'.
Author | : John Keeble |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2006-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780803207080 |
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Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, this collection of loosely connected tales returns readers to the American Northwest so finely observed and powerfully evoked in John Keeble’s previous, celebrated works. Nocturnal America occupies a terrain at once familiar and strange, where homecoming and dislocation can coincide, and families can break apart or hone themselves on the hard edges of daily life. In these stories, Keeble populates what journalist Joel Garreau once called the “Empty Quarter” of North America with complex humanity. Life ranges vibrantly through these airy spaces, at times finding itself thrown up against the shifty terrors of political change and the antic scrim of culture. Keeble’s stories hinge on love—its difficulty, its loss and pangs, but also its discovery of good fortune and even illumination in steadiness through travail. As his characters come and go, unexpectedly converging, vanishing, or reappearing, their stories reach beyond the ordinariness of life and the particularities of place to create something akin to community.
Author | : Robert Brown (M.A., Ph.D.) |
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Total Pages | : 406 |
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Author | : Mike Filey |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 1999-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1550023225 |
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This illustrated guide includes descriptions of the monuments and horticultural features of Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
Author | : Emeritus Associate Scott Polar Research Institute Colin P Summerhayes |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2023-01-03 |
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ISBN | : 0197627986 |
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For most people, planet Earth's icy parts remain out of sight and out of mind. Yet it is the melting of ice that will both raise sea level and warm the climate further by reducing the white surfaces that reflect solar energy back into space. In effect, our icy places act as the world's refrigerator, helping to keep our climate relatively cool. The Icy Planet lays out carbon dioxide's role as the control knob of our climate over the past 1000 million years, then explores what is happening to ice and snow in Antarctica, the Arctic and the high mountains. Colin P. Summerhayes takes readers to the world's icy places to see what is happening to its ice, snow, and permafrost. He recounts tales from his own visits to these frozen landscapes, shining a light on some of the wonders he has encountered in his travels. He also brings together pieces of the climate story from different scientific disciplines, and from the past and the present, to illustrate how Earth's climate system works. Utilizing geological records of climate change alongside new technologies in ice coring, Summerhayes crafts a detailed and compelling record of Earth's climate history and examines how that can be used as a window into our future.
Author | : Anna Nicholas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Crown Hill Cemetery (Indianapolis, Ind.). |
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Author | : Friedrich Schiller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1851 |
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Author | : Lytton |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2024-01-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385250722 |
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author | : Friedrich Schiller |
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Total Pages | : 842 |
Release | : 1902 |
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Author | : Friedrich Schiller |
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Total Pages | : 840 |
Release | : 1902 |
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