I Sailed with Rasmussen
I Sailed with Rasmussen

Author: Peter Freuchen

Publisher: New York : Julian Messner

Published: 1958

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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The author's impression of his friend and close companion from his boyhood to the end of his life.

Deadly Deceptions
Deadly Deceptions

Author: Henrik Sandvad Rasmussen

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781475956979

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Matt Radowski, a bright, young doctor, is on the fast career track at GenWorld Inc., the most successful biotechnology company in the world. His curiosity and intuition have served him well, and hes someone to watch. But now that curiosity has uncovered a dark secret, and Matt is about to come face-to-face with powerful enemies who will stop at nothing to protect their investment. Quite by chance, hes discovered that someone has manipulated the registration data for the companys new blockbuster drug, Septicustat, and these changes make the drug appear to be much more than it is. His life changes in ways he could never have imagined as he considers the implications of that information. Matt must now make a decision that could endanger his reputation, his careerand even his life. How far will these influential investors go to keep his discovery buried? And how far will this brave, young doctor go to ensure that the truth is known? Deadly Deceptions takes the reader inside the fascinating world of drug development, biotechnology, science, and big money.

Evergreen
Evergreen

Author: Rebecca Rasmussen

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2015-06-23

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0345806719

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A BookPage Best Book of the Year It is 1938 when Eveline, a young bride, follows her husband, Emil, into the Minnesota wilderness. Though their cabin is rundown, they have a river full of fish, a garden out back, and a baby boy named Hux. But when Emil leaves to take care of his sick father, a dangerous stranger arrives, fracturing their small family forever and leaving Hux to grow up wondering if the wrongs of the past can ever be mended. Set before a backdrop of vanishing forest, Rebecca Rasmussen has written a luminous and emotionally charged novel about how one defining moment can echo through generations.

White Eskimo
White Eskimo

Author: Stephen Bown

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2015-11-10

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0306822822

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As T. E. Lawrence did for the Arab world and Richard Burton did for the heart of Africa, Knud Rasmussen opened the landscape and culture of the Arctic. Stephen Bown, biographer of Roald Amundsen, follows Rasmussen's thrilling expeditions, including a three-year sled ride from Baffin Bay to Alaska,

Island of the Blue Foxes
Island of the Blue Foxes

Author: Stephen R. Bown

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0306825201

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The story of the world's largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told The immense 18th-century scientific journey, variously known as the Second Kamchatka Expedition or the Great Northern Expedition, from St. Petersburg across Siberia to the coast of North America, involved over 3,000 people and cost Peter the Great over one-sixth of his empire's annual revenue. Until now recorded only in academic works, this 10-year venture, led by the legendary Danish captain Vitus Bering and including scientists, artists, mariners, soldiers, and laborers, discovered Alaska, opened the Pacific fur trade, and led to fame, shipwreck, and "one of the most tragic and ghastly trials of suffering in the annals of maritime and arctic history.

This Cold Heaven
This Cold Heaven

Author: Gretel Ehrlich

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2008-07

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 0007291906

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Gretel Ehrlich travels across the largest island on Earth, in the company of men and women who have a deep bond with it. She discovers the realm of the great dark, ice pavilions, polar bears and Eskimo nomads.

The Ladder
The Ladder

Author: Halfdan Rasmussen

Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 9780763622824

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A jolly ladder, left behind by a strange carpenter, takes on a life of its own and embarks on a grand journey through the countryside where it encounters people and animals, who, after climbing it to the top and disappearing into the sky, return in a special way!