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Author: Barbara Saffer
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2000-09
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9780736890199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the history of polar exploration and the adventures of some polar explorers including Fridtjof Nansen, Robert Peary, and Ernest Shackleton.
Author: Alastair Humphreys
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2016-03-24
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 0008131945
DOWNLOAD EBOOK‘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: Maxine Snowden
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2003-11-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1613742630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHeroism and horror abound in these true stories of 16 great explorers who journeyed to the Arctic and Antarctic regions, two exquisite and unique ice wildernesses. Recounted are the exciting North Pole adventures of Erik the Red in 982 and the elusive searches for the &“Northwest Passage&” and &“Farthest North&” of Henry Hudson, Fridtjof Nansen, Fredrick Cook, and Robert Peary. Coverage of the South Pole begins with Captain Cook in 1772; continues through the era of land grabbing and the race to reach the Pole with James Clark Ross, Roald Amundsen, Robert Scott, and Ernest Shackleton; and ends with an examination of the scientists at work there today. Astounding photographs and journal entries, sidebars on the Inuit and polar animals, and engaging activities bring the harrowing expeditions to life. Activities include making a Viking compass, building a model igloo, making a cross staff to measure latitude, creating a barometer, making pemmican, and writing a newspaper like William Parry's &“Winter Chronicle.&” The North and South Poles become exciting routes to learning about science, geography, and history.
Author: David H. Stam
Publisher:
Published: 2022-01-05
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781605830841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased in part on his own naval experience, including duty in Antarctica, and informed by extensive archival and secondary research, David Stam's book examines the printed needs of several polar expeditions, including those of Adolphus Greely in the International Polar Year 1881-83 in northernmost Canada. Stam's study also includes analysis of shipboard- and expedition-based periodicals throughout the so-called Heroic Age of exploration (ca. 1880-1921); a definitive essay on the enduring books of Ernest Shackleton's legendary journey aboard the Endurance; a parallel study of the primarily religious literature distributed as Loan Libraries of the American Seamen's Friend Society; and, finally, an account of the three libraries assembled by Richard Evelyn Byrd for the successive bases at Little America (1929-41). The volume is bookended by chapters that provide an autobiographical account of how Adventures in Polar Reading came to be written and extensive suggestions pointing the way to topics of research that Stam's methodology might enable for other scholars.
Author: Alastair Humphreys
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2014-06-05
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 0007548044
DOWNLOAD EBOOK‘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: Roald Amundsen
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 304
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Author: Joanna Kafarowski
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2017-11-04
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 1459739728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive biography of Louise Arner Boyd — the intrepid American socialite who reinvented herself as the leading female polar explorer of the twentieth century. Born in the late 1880s to a gritty mining magnate who made his millions in the California gold rush and a well-bred mother descended from one of New York’s distinguished families, society beauty Louise Arner Boyd was raised during a glittering era. After inheriting a staggering family fortune, she began leading a double life. She fell under the spell of the north in the late 1920s after a sailing excursion to the Arctic Ocean. Over the next three decades, she achieved international notoriety as a rugged and audacious polar explorer while maintaining her flamboyant lifestyle as a leading society woman. Yet despite organizing, financing, and directing seven daring Arctic expeditions between 1926 and 1955, she is virtually unknown today.
Author: G. Firth Scott
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samantha Seiple
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2013-09-24
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 0545562775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of GHOSTS IN THE FOG comes a story that will appeal to lovers of history, adventure, and dogs. BYRD & IGLOO will be the first narrative nonfiction book to tell the daring adventures of legendary polar explorer and aviator Richard Byrd and his lovable dog explorer, Igloo. Byrd is known for being the first to fly a plane over the North and South Poles, while Igloo is famous for being the only dog to explore both the North and South Poles. The adventures of Byrd and Igloo opened the door for science and research in the Antarctic. Featuring direct quotes from letters, diaries and interviews, newspaper clippings, expedition records, maps, charts, as well as never-before-seen photos, it will give the complete story of the explorers' journey. Though rooted in history with evidence from many museums and research centers, Byrd & Igloo will be exciting in tone, making it accessible and interesting for young readers.
Author: Maxine Snowden
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2003-11
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1556525001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the travels and adventures of Arctic and Antarctic explorers throughout history, from Eric the Red in 981 or 982 to Gretel Ehrlich in 2000.
