Author: Eva Louise Alvey Richards
Publisher: Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Printers
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Description of north Alaska, and the Eskimo's life throughout the year, from the author's experiences while teaching at Wainwright, Alaska, 1924-26. Includes portraits and images of Eskimo culture and their environments. Also includes whaling images.
Arctic Mood
Author: Eva Louise Alvey Richards
Publisher: Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Printers
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Description of north Alaska, and the Eskimo's life throughout the year, from the author's experiences while teaching at Wainwright, Alaska, 1924-26. Includes portraits and images of Eskimo culture and their environments. Also includes whaling images.
Publisher: Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Printers
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Description of north Alaska, and the Eskimo's life throughout the year, from the author's experiences while teaching at Wainwright, Alaska, 1924-26. Includes portraits and images of Eskimo culture and their environments. Also includes whaling images.
Arctic Bibliography
Author: Arctic Institute of North America
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 1524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 1524
Book Description
Arctic Mood
Author: Eva Louise Alvey Richards
Publisher: Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Printers
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Description of north Alaska, and the Eskimo's life throughout the year, from the author's experiences while teaching at Wainwright, Alaska, 1924-26. Includes portraits and images of Eskimo culture and their environments. Also includes whaling images.
Publisher: Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Printers
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Description of north Alaska, and the Eskimo's life throughout the year, from the author's experiences while teaching at Wainwright, Alaska, 1924-26. Includes portraits and images of Eskimo culture and their environments. Also includes whaling images.
Recent Acquisitions
Author: Engineer School Library (Fort Belvoir, Va.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Flight Lines
Author: Andrew Darby
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643135775
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A trans-world journey with an extraorindary shorebird—from Australia's southern ocean to the Arctic and back—that explores the mysteries of the natural world and its power to heal. As the sun lowered and turned Gulf St Vincent fiery, they each called a high-pitched 'peeooowiii!', flashed their black wing-pits, spread their tail skirts and took flight... In a luminous new boook, Andrew Darby follows the odysseys of two seemingly-humble Grey Plovers, little-known migratory shorebirds, as they take previously uncharted ultramarathon flights from the southern coast of Australia to Arctic breeding grounds. On these death-defying flights they dodge predators, typhoons, exhaustion, and countless other dangers before they can breed...and then survive the jrouney all over again and return south to their feeding grounds. But the greatest threat to these, and other long-distance migrants on the flyway, is China's "dragon economy," which is engulfing their vital Yellow Sea staging spots. In Flight Lines, we meet the dedicated people of all nationalities and backgrounds working to save these intrepid birds, from Russia to Alaska, from the rim of the Arctic Sea to the coasts of the Southern Ocean. Out of their hard-won science Darby finds hope for the birds—an unexpected bright light for our times. But his journey to understand these marvellous birds almost ends when he is suddenly diagnosed with an incurable cancer. Then he finds science coming to his rescue too, as his own story and the journey of these little birds intersect in an unexpected and beautiful way.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643135775
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A trans-world journey with an extraorindary shorebird—from Australia's southern ocean to the Arctic and back—that explores the mysteries of the natural world and its power to heal. As the sun lowered and turned Gulf St Vincent fiery, they each called a high-pitched 'peeooowiii!', flashed their black wing-pits, spread their tail skirts and took flight... In a luminous new boook, Andrew Darby follows the odysseys of two seemingly-humble Grey Plovers, little-known migratory shorebirds, as they take previously uncharted ultramarathon flights from the southern coast of Australia to Arctic breeding grounds. On these death-defying flights they dodge predators, typhoons, exhaustion, and countless other dangers before they can breed...and then survive the jrouney all over again and return south to their feeding grounds. But the greatest threat to these, and other long-distance migrants on the flyway, is China's "dragon economy," which is engulfing their vital Yellow Sea staging spots. In Flight Lines, we meet the dedicated people of all nationalities and backgrounds working to save these intrepid birds, from Russia to Alaska, from the rim of the Arctic Sea to the coasts of the Southern Ocean. Out of their hard-won science Darby finds hope for the birds—an unexpected bright light for our times. But his journey to understand these marvellous birds almost ends when he is suddenly diagnosed with an incurable cancer. Then he finds science coming to his rescue too, as his own story and the journey of these little birds intersect in an unexpected and beautiful way.
Polar Manual
Author: United States. Naval Medical School, Bethesda, Md. Department of Cold Weather Medicine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Icebound In The Arctic
Author: Michael Smith
Publisher: The O'Brien Press Ltd
ISBN: 178849265X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Captain Francis Crozier was a major figure in 19th century Arctic and Antarctic exploration who led the doomed Franklin Expedition's battle to survive against the odds. It is a compelling story which refuses to be laid to rest and recent discovery of his lost ships above the Arctic Circle gives it a new urgency. The ships may hold vital clues to how two navy vessels and 129 men disappeared 170 years ago and why Crozier, in command after Franklin's early death, left the only written clue to the biggest disaster in Polar history. Drawn from historic records and modern revelations, this is the only comprehensive account of Crozier's extraordinary life. It is a tale of a great explorer, a lost love affair and an enduring mystery. Crozier's epic story began comfortably in Banbridge, Co Down and involved six gruelling expeditions on three of the 19th century's great endeavours – navigating the North West Passage, reaching the North Pole and mapping Antarctica. But it ended in disaster.
Publisher: The O'Brien Press Ltd
ISBN: 178849265X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Captain Francis Crozier was a major figure in 19th century Arctic and Antarctic exploration who led the doomed Franklin Expedition's battle to survive against the odds. It is a compelling story which refuses to be laid to rest and recent discovery of his lost ships above the Arctic Circle gives it a new urgency. The ships may hold vital clues to how two navy vessels and 129 men disappeared 170 years ago and why Crozier, in command after Franklin's early death, left the only written clue to the biggest disaster in Polar history. Drawn from historic records and modern revelations, this is the only comprehensive account of Crozier's extraordinary life. It is a tale of a great explorer, a lost love affair and an enduring mystery. Crozier's epic story began comfortably in Banbridge, Co Down and involved six gruelling expeditions on three of the 19th century's great endeavours – navigating the North West Passage, reaching the North Pole and mapping Antarctica. But it ended in disaster.
Empire's Edge
Author: Preston Jones
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1602231524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
In 1898, Nome, Alaska, burst into the American consciousness when one of the largest gold strikes in the world occurred on its shores. Over the next ten years, Nome’s population exploded as both men and women came north to seek their fortunes. Closer to Siberia than to New York, Nome’s citizens created their own version of small-town America on the northern frontier. Less than 150 miles from the Arctic Circle, they weathered the Great War and the diphtheria epidemic of 1925 as well as floods, fires, and the Great Depression. They enlivened the Alaska winters with pastimes such as high-school basketball and social clubs. Empire’s Edge is the story of how ordinary Americans made a life on the edge of a continent—a life both ordinary and extraordinary.
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1602231524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
In 1898, Nome, Alaska, burst into the American consciousness when one of the largest gold strikes in the world occurred on its shores. Over the next ten years, Nome’s population exploded as both men and women came north to seek their fortunes. Closer to Siberia than to New York, Nome’s citizens created their own version of small-town America on the northern frontier. Less than 150 miles from the Arctic Circle, they weathered the Great War and the diphtheria epidemic of 1925 as well as floods, fires, and the Great Depression. They enlivened the Alaska winters with pastimes such as high-school basketball and social clubs. Empire’s Edge is the story of how ordinary Americans made a life on the edge of a continent—a life both ordinary and extraordinary.
Arctic Research of the United States
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
A Day at a Time
Author: Margo Culley
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9780935312515
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Gathers diary selections, describes the historical background of each writer, and discusses the changing function and content of diaries.
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9780935312515
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Gathers diary selections, describes the historical background of each writer, and discusses the changing function and content of diaries.