Author: Jean Malaurie
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393051501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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"Ultima Thule" is the terrible and yet fantastic story of European and American exploration in the polar north. The book brings to life both sides of the clash that arose when white men arrived in the Far North. Heavily illustrated with period photos, engravings, artifacts, and drawings. 650 photos.
Author: Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Publisher: Librorium Editions
ISBN: 396724010X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Pytheas, around whom centers the question of Thule, was considered for two thousand years the champion liar of antiquity. After perhaps the most overdue of rehabilitations, he is now in our books and belief an outstanding leader in Greek science and a foremost explorerthe earliest of the known great explorers. If he appears to us less than Columbus in some ways he appears greater in others, particularly as a scientist. He has been referred to as a Columbus with a flavor of Darwin; he appears to have been more nearly a composite of James Cook and Galileo.
Author: Davis McCombs
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300130058
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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This year’s winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Davis McCombs’s Ultima Thule, which was acclaimed as “a book of exploration, of searching regard.... a grave, attentive holding of a light” by the contest judge, the distinguished poet W. S. Merwin. The poems are set above and below the Cave Country of south central Kentucky, where McCombs lives and which is home to thousands of caves. The book is framed by two sonnet sequences, the first about a slave guide and explorer at Mammoth Cave in the mid-1800s and the second about McCombs’s experiences as a guide and park ranger there in the 1990s. Other poems deal with Mammoth Cave’s four- thousand-year human history and the thrills of crawling into tight, rarely visited passageways to see what lies beyond. Often the poems search for oblique angles into personal experience, and the caves and the landscape they create form a personal geology.
Author: Denise Bell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692609705
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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From the intricate cockleshell and birdseye stitches that constitute the airy Sky and Sea scarf, to the original fish motif of the Kishie Shawl; from the hearty practicality of the Lerwick Harbour Hap, to the elegant Voe Cowl, and to the vine, stone wall, and bumblebee motifs of the ambitious Kailyard Pi Shawl, Ultima Thule is a tribute to the northernmost point of Scotland, the Shetland Islands.Designer Denise Bell offers a range of patterns, from exquisite lace to sturdy garter stitch, all specifying either her own hand dyed yarns from Lost City Knits or from Jamieson and Smith Wool Brokers of Shetland.Photographer and essayist Chris Dykes offers a glimpse of Shetland's remarkable scenery and shares some of his encounters with lifelong Shetlanders.
Author: Richard Francis Burton
Publisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780341979654
Category : Iceland
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Author: Thomas Cholmondeley
Publisher: London : J. Chapman
ISBN:
Category : Maori (New Zealand people)
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Author: Henry Handel Richardson
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Author: Simone Sassen
Publisher: Schirmer Mosel
ISBN: 9783829603935
Category : Industrial sites
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Ultima Thule - the end of the world. This is how people used to refer to Spitsbergen, an island in the northernmost archipelago of Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean. In this book, Simone Sassen and Cees Nooteboom describe a journey there and to the coal mining town Pyramiden, once operated by the Russians. There are romantic views of deserted, almost barren landscapes, high moors, glaciers, mountains, eternal ice, fjords, more than just the north, as it were, and instead the quintessence of the north. Then, like a mirage, the silence of an abandoned town: disused industrial facilities, deserted apartments, a former post office, abandoned playgrounds and sports fields. These traces of a past "gold fever" and of urban life in the eternal ice are both impressive and unreal." "Simone Sassen's color photographs and Cees Nooteboorn's essay capture the "end of the world", as is actually the case in Pyramiden, in a fascinating way. These are images of a past whose shadow stretches far into the future." "The reason for the journey, which bore the motto "Ultima Thule", was International Polar Year 2007-8. In September 2007, the authors, together with some other writer-travelers, took up an invitation to visit Norway's extreme north, namely Tromso, Spitsbergen, Hammerfest, and Kirkenes. The aim of the tour was to draw attention to the far-reaching developments in this both climatically and politically sensitive region. Only recently has new Russian activity here made it clear that the nation has a stalwart interest in the area, although cooperation between the countries concerned, namely Russia, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, continues to be relaxed in this region."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Raymond Bernard
Publisher: Health Research Books
ISBN: 9780787300975
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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1964 Dr. Bernard says this is the true home of the flying saucers. the epoch-making significance of Adm. Byrd's flight for 1,700 miles into the North Polar opening leading to the hollow interior of the earth, the home of a Super Race who are the Creators.
