Author: Kari Herbert
Publisher: Conway Maritime Press
ISBN: 9781844861378
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
On the centenary of Roald Amundsen's and Robert Scott's epic expeditions, this history of our search for the South Pole examines a number of expeditions to Antarctica through discussions with leading explorers, historians, scholars and polar experts.
In Search of the South Pole
Author: Kari Herbert
Publisher: Conway Maritime Press
ISBN: 9781844861378
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
On the centenary of Roald Amundsen's and Robert Scott's epic expeditions, this history of our search for the South Pole examines a number of expeditions to Antarctica through discussions with leading explorers, historians, scholars and polar experts.
Publisher: Conway Maritime Press
ISBN: 9781844861378
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
On the centenary of Roald Amundsen's and Robert Scott's epic expeditions, this history of our search for the South Pole examines a number of expeditions to Antarctica through discussions with leading explorers, historians, scholars and polar experts.
South Pole
Author: Christine Dell'Amore
Publisher: Exclusive Selection
ISBN: 9781614280118
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Although it's a piece of history learned by every British student, the Terra Nova Expedition of 1910-1913 remains an epic story unknown to many. In this ultimate showing of life and boundless bravery, Robert F. Scott and his five-man team battled the elements--traveling through subzero temperatures with motor sledges and ponies--in the hope of being the first to reach this uninhabited territory. Arriving at the South Pole on January 18, 1913, the adventurers were greeted by their worst nightmare: a Norwegian flag. Disheartened and badly frostbitten, they trudged back toward their boat, only to die just eleven miles from the next depot. This well-documented journey is starkly relived in this waterproof, over-sized edition featuring a historic collection of stunning black-and-white photography on waterproof paper, and excerpts from Scott's harrowing diary uniquely crafted in calligraphy. Limited edition of 150 numbered copies
Publisher: Exclusive Selection
ISBN: 9781614280118
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Although it's a piece of history learned by every British student, the Terra Nova Expedition of 1910-1913 remains an epic story unknown to many. In this ultimate showing of life and boundless bravery, Robert F. Scott and his five-man team battled the elements--traveling through subzero temperatures with motor sledges and ponies--in the hope of being the first to reach this uninhabited territory. Arriving at the South Pole on January 18, 1913, the adventurers were greeted by their worst nightmare: a Norwegian flag. Disheartened and badly frostbitten, they trudged back toward their boat, only to die just eleven miles from the next depot. This well-documented journey is starkly relived in this waterproof, over-sized edition featuring a historic collection of stunning black-and-white photography on waterproof paper, and excerpts from Scott's harrowing diary uniquely crafted in calligraphy. Limited edition of 150 numbered copies
North Pole / South Pole
Author: Michael Bright
Publisher: Words & Pictures
ISBN: 0711254745
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
A beautifully illustrated guide with a fun and innovative flip book format that allows the reader to explore and compare the two Poles.
Publisher: Words & Pictures
ISBN: 0711254745
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
A beautifully illustrated guide with a fun and innovative flip book format that allows the reader to explore and compare the two Poles.
South Pole Station
Author: Ashley Shelby
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452972206
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
A New York TimesBook Review Editors’ Choice A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year Hudson Booksellers Book of the Year One of the New York Post’s Best Books of the Summer One of The Millions’s Most Anticipated Books of the Year IndieNext Pick A Time Magazine “What to Read Now” Selection A wry novel set at the edge of the earth about the courage it takes to band together, even as everything around you falls apart Unmoored by a recent family tragedy, Cooper Gosling is adrift at thirty and on the verge of ruining her career. So when the opportunity arises to join the National Science Foundation’s Artists & Writers Program in Antarctica, she jumps at the chance—and finds herself in the company of others who are just abnormal enough for Polar life, a group of eccentrics motivated by desires as ambiguous as her own. When they are joined by a fringe scientist who claims climate change is a hoax, the Polies’ already-imbalanced community is rattled, bringing them to the center of a global controversy and threatening the ancient ice chip they call home.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452972206
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
A New York TimesBook Review Editors’ Choice A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year Hudson Booksellers Book of the Year One of the New York Post’s Best Books of the Summer One of The Millions’s Most Anticipated Books of the Year IndieNext Pick A Time Magazine “What to Read Now” Selection A wry novel set at the edge of the earth about the courage it takes to band together, even as everything around you falls apart Unmoored by a recent family tragedy, Cooper Gosling is adrift at thirty and on the verge of ruining her career. So when the opportunity arises to join the National Science Foundation’s Artists & Writers Program in Antarctica, she jumps at the chance—and finds herself in the company of others who are just abnormal enough for Polar life, a group of eccentrics motivated by desires as ambiguous as her own. When they are joined by a fringe scientist who claims climate change is a hoax, the Polies’ already-imbalanced community is rattled, bringing them to the center of a global controversy and threatening the ancient ice chip they call home.
Annabelle at the South Pole
Author: R. W. Alley
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547907206
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Annabelle is trapped inside on a cold, wintry afternoon with her brothers and sister. When they won’t stop pestering her, she sets off into the snowy backyard in search of adventure, and soon finds herself at the South Pole in the company of an abominable (but adorable) snowman. This magical winter story joins Clark in the Deep Sea, Gretchen Over the Beach, and Mitchell on the Moon in a four-book series that celebrates the power of imagination, created by the veteran children’s book illustrator R. W. Alley.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547907206
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Annabelle is trapped inside on a cold, wintry afternoon with her brothers and sister. When they won’t stop pestering her, she sets off into the snowy backyard in search of adventure, and soon finds herself at the South Pole in the company of an abominable (but adorable) snowman. This magical winter story joins Clark in the Deep Sea, Gretchen Over the Beach, and Mitchell on the Moon in a four-book series that celebrates the power of imagination, created by the veteran children’s book illustrator R. W. Alley.
The South Pole
Author: Anthony Brandt
Publisher: National Geographic
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The words of the great explorers of Antarctica--James Cook, Ernest Shackleton, Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen and Richard Byrd--are gathered together in this gripping narrative history of the race to reach the South Pole.
Publisher: National Geographic
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The words of the great explorers of Antarctica--James Cook, Ernest Shackleton, Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen and Richard Byrd--are gathered together in this gripping narrative history of the race to reach the South Pole.
Nothing Ever Happens at the South Pole
Author: Stan Berenstain
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780062075321
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
There's a lot going on at the South Pole! There are slippery slopes and frozen floes and wild animals all around. But when one penguin goes looking for adventure, he doesn't see anything exciting at all going on. Could it be he's just not looking closely enough? From the creators of the Berenstain Bears comes a storybook filled with adventure for all.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780062075321
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
There's a lot going on at the South Pole! There are slippery slopes and frozen floes and wild animals all around. But when one penguin goes looking for adventure, he doesn't see anything exciting at all going on. Could it be he's just not looking closely enough? From the creators of the Berenstain Bears comes a storybook filled with adventure for all.
Race for the South Pole
Author: Roland Huntford
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441169822
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441169822
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The South Pole
Author: Roald Amundsen
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3861952564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Account of the thrilling race to the south pole. With an introduction by Fridtjof Nansen.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3861952564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Account of the thrilling race to the south pole. With an introduction by Fridtjof Nansen.
North Pole, South Pole
Author: Gillian Turner
Publisher: The Experiment
ISBN: 1615191321
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This “fantastic story” of one of physics’ great riddles takes us through centuries of scientific history (Simon Lamb, author of Devil in the Mountain). Why do compass needles point north—but not quite north? What guides the migration of birds, whales, and fish across the world’s oceans? How is Earth able to sustain life under an onslaught of solar wind and cosmic radiation? For centuries, the world’s great scientists have grappled with these questions, all rooted in the same phenomenon: Earth’s magnetism. Over two thousand years after the invention of the compass, Einstein called the source of Earth’s magnetic field one of greatest unsolved mysteries of physics. Here, for the first time, is the complete history of the quest to understand the planet’s attractive pull—from the ancient Greeks’ fascination with lodestone to the geological discovery that the North Pole has not always been in the North—and to the astonishing modern conclusions that finally revealed the true source. Richly illustrated and skillfully told, North Pole, South Pole unfolds the human story behind the science: that of the inquisitive, persevering, and often dissenting thinkers who unlocked the secrets at our planet’s core. “In recent years, many very good books for interested non-scientists have been published: Richard Dawkins’s Climbing Mount Improbable and The Ancestor’s Tale, Stephen Jay Gould’s The Lying Stones of Marrakech, and Dava Sobel’s Longitude and The Planets, to name some of them. North Pole, South Pole . . . is a worthy addition to that list . . . Turner has a great story to tell, and she tells it well.” —The Press (New Zealand)
Publisher: The Experiment
ISBN: 1615191321
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This “fantastic story” of one of physics’ great riddles takes us through centuries of scientific history (Simon Lamb, author of Devil in the Mountain). Why do compass needles point north—but not quite north? What guides the migration of birds, whales, and fish across the world’s oceans? How is Earth able to sustain life under an onslaught of solar wind and cosmic radiation? For centuries, the world’s great scientists have grappled with these questions, all rooted in the same phenomenon: Earth’s magnetism. Over two thousand years after the invention of the compass, Einstein called the source of Earth’s magnetic field one of greatest unsolved mysteries of physics. Here, for the first time, is the complete history of the quest to understand the planet’s attractive pull—from the ancient Greeks’ fascination with lodestone to the geological discovery that the North Pole has not always been in the North—and to the astonishing modern conclusions that finally revealed the true source. Richly illustrated and skillfully told, North Pole, South Pole unfolds the human story behind the science: that of the inquisitive, persevering, and often dissenting thinkers who unlocked the secrets at our planet’s core. “In recent years, many very good books for interested non-scientists have been published: Richard Dawkins’s Climbing Mount Improbable and The Ancestor’s Tale, Stephen Jay Gould’s The Lying Stones of Marrakech, and Dava Sobel’s Longitude and The Planets, to name some of them. North Pole, South Pole . . . is a worthy addition to that list . . . Turner has a great story to tell, and she tells it well.” —The Press (New Zealand)