Author: Isaac Israel Hayes
Publisher: London : Sampson Low, Son, and Marston
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The Open Polar Sea
Author: Isaac Israel Hayes
Publisher: London : Sampson Low, Son, and Marston
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher: London : Sampson Low, Son, and Marston
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
In the Kingdom of Ice
Author: Hampton Sides
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307946916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and heroism in the Gilded Age from the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. • “A splendid book in every way…a marvelous nonfiction thriller.” —The Wall Street Journal On July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from San Francisco on the USS Jeanette. Heading deep into uncharted Arctic waters, they carried the aspirations of a young country burning to be the first nation to reach the North Pole. Two years into the harrowing voyage, the Jeannette's hull was breached by an impassable stretch of pack ice, forcing the crew to abandon ship amid torrents of rushing of water. Hours later, the ship had sunk below the surface, marooning the men a thousand miles north of Siberia, where they faced a terrifying march with minimal supplies across the endless ice pack. Enduring everything from snow blindness and polar bears to ferocious storms and labyrinths of ice, the crew battled madness and starvation as they struggled desperately to survive. With thrilling twists and turns, In The Kingdom of Ice is a spellbinding tale of heroism and determination in the most brutal place on Earth.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307946916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and heroism in the Gilded Age from the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. • “A splendid book in every way…a marvelous nonfiction thriller.” —The Wall Street Journal On July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from San Francisco on the USS Jeanette. Heading deep into uncharted Arctic waters, they carried the aspirations of a young country burning to be the first nation to reach the North Pole. Two years into the harrowing voyage, the Jeannette's hull was breached by an impassable stretch of pack ice, forcing the crew to abandon ship amid torrents of rushing of water. Hours later, the ship had sunk below the surface, marooning the men a thousand miles north of Siberia, where they faced a terrifying march with minimal supplies across the endless ice pack. Enduring everything from snow blindness and polar bears to ferocious storms and labyrinths of ice, the crew battled madness and starvation as they struggled desperately to survive. With thrilling twists and turns, In The Kingdom of Ice is a spellbinding tale of heroism and determination in the most brutal place on Earth.
Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22
Author: John Franklin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires
Author: Luis Lobo-Guerrero
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 153814641X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This volume seeks to collectively explore how maps can be used to understand the making of European empires, how the epistemological practices embedded in them can be approached to understand European imperial space-making, and how maps can be seen as representations of imaginaries of connectivity. Rehearsing mapping’s past and its multifarious relations with European imperial orders is not merely an historical exercise to contribute to a global history of cartography. What binds the several interventions is rather an awareness that looking at a particular moment of the past with composite methodologies and interdisciplinary gazes may harbour potential discoveries on the context-embedded relations between mapping, connectivity, and European empire to which we are not yet attuned. By exploring the imaginaries of the world in the mapping of Western modern empires, the book also links to the burgeoning literature on the history of international relations and empire. The emphasis on empires serves here as an important corrigendum for IR’s state centrism and Eurocentrism and contributes to further erode the myth of Westphalia.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 153814641X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This volume seeks to collectively explore how maps can be used to understand the making of European empires, how the epistemological practices embedded in them can be approached to understand European imperial space-making, and how maps can be seen as representations of imaginaries of connectivity. Rehearsing mapping’s past and its multifarious relations with European imperial orders is not merely an historical exercise to contribute to a global history of cartography. What binds the several interventions is rather an awareness that looking at a particular moment of the past with composite methodologies and interdisciplinary gazes may harbour potential discoveries on the context-embedded relations between mapping, connectivity, and European empire to which we are not yet attuned. By exploring the imaginaries of the world in the mapping of Western modern empires, the book also links to the burgeoning literature on the history of international relations and empire. The emphasis on empires serves here as an important corrigendum for IR’s state centrism and Eurocentrism and contributes to further erode the myth of Westphalia.
Bulletin of the American Geographical and Statistical Society
Author: American Geographical and Statistical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Catalogue of the Library of Congress ; Index of Subjects, in Two Volumes
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 994
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 994
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The Catalogue of the Public Library of Victoria
Author: Public Library of Victoria
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of Congress: Aargau to Lichfield
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Arctic Bibliography
Author: Arctic Institute of North America
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 1520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 1520
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Constitution, List of Meetings, Officers, Committees, Fellows and Members
Author: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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