Author: Ruth Soffer
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486494306
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Forty-four realistic illustrations: terns, humpback whales, baby harp seals, a sea spider, king and emperor penguins, and other creatures of the polar regions. Free Teacher's Manual available. Grades: 3–5.
BOOST Arctic and Antarctic Life Coloring Book
Author: Ruth Soffer
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486494306
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Forty-four realistic illustrations: terns, humpback whales, baby harp seals, a sea spider, king and emperor penguins, and other creatures of the polar regions. Free Teacher's Manual available. Grades: 3–5.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486494306
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Forty-four realistic illustrations: terns, humpback whales, baby harp seals, a sea spider, king and emperor penguins, and other creatures of the polar regions. Free Teacher's Manual available. Grades: 3–5.
Arctic and Antarctic Life Coloring Book
Author: Ruth Soffer
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486298931
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
"44 realistic, accurately rendered illustrations of plants and animals found in the polar regions" -- Cover verso.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486298931
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
"44 realistic, accurately rendered illustrations of plants and animals found in the polar regions" -- Cover verso.
South with Endurance
Author: Frank Hurley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074322292X
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The definitive collection of Frank Hurley's amazing photos from Shackleton's Antarctic expedition is the first book to reproduce all the surviving expedition photos, some of which have never been published. Over 450 photos.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074322292X
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The definitive collection of Frank Hurley's amazing photos from Shackleton's Antarctic expedition is the first book to reproduce all the surviving expedition photos, some of which have never been published. Over 450 photos.
Arctic Dreams
Author: Barry Lopez
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1668080028
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Winner of the National Book Award This bestselling, groundbreaking exploration of the Far North is a classic of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing. The Arctic is a perilous place. Only a few species of wild animals can survive its harsh climate. In this modern classic, Barry Lopez explores the many-faceted wonders of the Far North: its strangely stunted forests, its mesmerizing aurora borealis, its frozen seas. Musk oxen, polar bears, narwhal, and other exotic beasts of the region come alive through Lopez’s passionate and nuanced observations. And, as he examines the history and culture of its indigenous communities, along with parallel narratives of intrepid, often underprepared and subsequently doomed polar explorers, Lopez drives to the heart of why the austere and formidable Arctic is also a constant source of breathtaking beauty, mystery, and wonder. Written in prose as pure as the land it describes, Arctic Dreams is a timeless mediation on the ability of the landscape to shape our dreams and to haunt our imaginations.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1668080028
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Winner of the National Book Award This bestselling, groundbreaking exploration of the Far North is a classic of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing. The Arctic is a perilous place. Only a few species of wild animals can survive its harsh climate. In this modern classic, Barry Lopez explores the many-faceted wonders of the Far North: its strangely stunted forests, its mesmerizing aurora borealis, its frozen seas. Musk oxen, polar bears, narwhal, and other exotic beasts of the region come alive through Lopez’s passionate and nuanced observations. And, as he examines the history and culture of its indigenous communities, along with parallel narratives of intrepid, often underprepared and subsequently doomed polar explorers, Lopez drives to the heart of why the austere and formidable Arctic is also a constant source of breathtaking beauty, mystery, and wonder. Written in prose as pure as the land it describes, Arctic Dreams is a timeless mediation on the ability of the landscape to shape our dreams and to haunt our imaginations.
Skating to Antarctica
Author: Jenny Diski
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN: 9781844081516
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Sardonically funny and moving, Skating to Antarctica is a book about a journey into darkness and light, the colour white, fantasy and memory, families and sanity.
Publisher: Virago Press
ISBN: 9781844081516
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Sardonically funny and moving, Skating to Antarctica is a book about a journey into darkness and light, the colour white, fantasy and memory, families and sanity.
Antarctica
Author: Gabrielle Walker
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547536976
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
The acclaimed science writer presents a wide-ranging exploration of Antarctica’s history, nature, and global significance in this “rollicking good read” (Kirkus). From the early expeditions of Ernest Shackleton to David Attenborough’s documentary series Frozen Planet, the continent of Antarctica has captured the world’s imagination. After the Antarctic Treaty of 1961, decades of scientific research revealed the true extent of its many mysteries. Now former Nature magazine staff writer Gabrielle Walker tells the full story of Antarctica—from its fascinating history to its uncertain future and the international teams of researchers who brave its forbidding climate. Drawing on her broad travels across the continent, Walker weaves all the significant threads of life on the vast ice sheet into a multifaceted narrative, illuminating what it really feels like to be there and why it draws so many different kinds of people. She chronicles cutting-edge science experiments, visits to the South Pole, and unsettling portents about our future in an age of global warming. “We are all anxious Antarctic watchers now, and Walker's book is the essential primer.”—The Guardian, UK
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547536976
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
The acclaimed science writer presents a wide-ranging exploration of Antarctica’s history, nature, and global significance in this “rollicking good read” (Kirkus). From the early expeditions of Ernest Shackleton to David Attenborough’s documentary series Frozen Planet, the continent of Antarctica has captured the world’s imagination. After the Antarctic Treaty of 1961, decades of scientific research revealed the true extent of its many mysteries. Now former Nature magazine staff writer Gabrielle Walker tells the full story of Antarctica—from its fascinating history to its uncertain future and the international teams of researchers who brave its forbidding climate. Drawing on her broad travels across the continent, Walker weaves all the significant threads of life on the vast ice sheet into a multifaceted narrative, illuminating what it really feels like to be there and why it draws so many different kinds of people. She chronicles cutting-edge science experiments, visits to the South Pole, and unsettling portents about our future in an age of global warming. “We are all anxious Antarctic watchers now, and Walker's book is the essential primer.”—The Guardian, UK
Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898-1899
Author: Frederick Albert Cook
Publisher: London : W. Heinemann
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Publisher: London : W. Heinemann
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
The White Darkness
Author: David Grann
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 0385544588
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager, a thrilling and powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with color photographs. "[Grann is] one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the nineteenth-century polar explorer, who tried to become the first person to reach the South Pole, and later sought to cross Antarctica on foot. Shackleton never completed his journeys, but he repeatedly rescued his men from certain death, and emerged as one of the greatest leaders in history. Worsley felt an overpowering connection to those expeditions. He was related to one of Shackleton's men, Frank Worsley, and spent a fortune collecting artifacts from their epic treks across the continent. He modeled his military command on Shackleton's legendary skills and was determined to measure his own powers of endurance against them. He would succeed where Shackleton had failed, in the most brutal landscape in the world. In 2008, Worsley set out across Antarctica with two other descendants of Shackleton's crew, battling the freezing, desolate landscape, life-threatening physical exhaustion, and hidden crevasses. Yet when he returned home he felt compelled to go back. On November 13, 2015, at age 55, Worsley bid farewell to his family and embarked on his most perilous quest: to walk across Antarctica alone. David Grann tells Worsley's remarkable story with the intensity and power that have led him to be called "simply the best narrative nonfiction writer working today." Illustrated with more than fifty stunning photographs from Worsley's and Shackleton's journeys, The White Darkness is both a gorgeous keepsake volume and a spellbinding story of courage, love, and a man pushing himself to the extremes of human capacity. Look for David Grann’s latest bestselling book, The Wager!
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 0385544588
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager, a thrilling and powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with color photographs. "[Grann is] one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the nineteenth-century polar explorer, who tried to become the first person to reach the South Pole, and later sought to cross Antarctica on foot. Shackleton never completed his journeys, but he repeatedly rescued his men from certain death, and emerged as one of the greatest leaders in history. Worsley felt an overpowering connection to those expeditions. He was related to one of Shackleton's men, Frank Worsley, and spent a fortune collecting artifacts from their epic treks across the continent. He modeled his military command on Shackleton's legendary skills and was determined to measure his own powers of endurance against them. He would succeed where Shackleton had failed, in the most brutal landscape in the world. In 2008, Worsley set out across Antarctica with two other descendants of Shackleton's crew, battling the freezing, desolate landscape, life-threatening physical exhaustion, and hidden crevasses. Yet when he returned home he felt compelled to go back. On November 13, 2015, at age 55, Worsley bid farewell to his family and embarked on his most perilous quest: to walk across Antarctica alone. David Grann tells Worsley's remarkable story with the intensity and power that have led him to be called "simply the best narrative nonfiction writer working today." Illustrated with more than fifty stunning photographs from Worsley's and Shackleton's journeys, The White Darkness is both a gorgeous keepsake volume and a spellbinding story of courage, love, and a man pushing himself to the extremes of human capacity. Look for David Grann’s latest bestselling book, The Wager!
Arctic Fox
Author: Garry Hamilton
Publisher: Firefly Books Limited
ISBN: 9781554073412
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Examines the survival strategies, family life, hunting behavior, and eating habits of the Arctic fox and explores the Arctic landscape and its characteristics.
Publisher: Firefly Books Limited
ISBN: 9781554073412
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Examines the survival strategies, family life, hunting behavior, and eating habits of the Arctic fox and explores the Arctic landscape and its characteristics.
The New International Year Book
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 952
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