Author: Frederick William Beechey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Account of expedition in search of North Pole led by D. Buchan in 1818. Sailed to Svalbard, where beset, and put into harbour. Traced pack ice edge towards Greenland. Also includes chronology of early attempts to reach the Pacific by way of the Pole.
A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole
Author: Frederick William Beechey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Account of expedition in search of North Pole led by D. Buchan in 1818. Sailed to Svalbard, where beset, and put into harbour. Traced pack ice edge towards Greenland. Also includes chronology of early attempts to reach the Pacific by way of the Pole.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Account of expedition in search of North Pole led by D. Buchan in 1818. Sailed to Svalbard, where beset, and put into harbour. Traced pack ice edge towards Greenland. Also includes chronology of early attempts to reach the Pacific by way of the Pole.
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
Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the North-east of Siberia, the Frozen Ocean, and the North-east Sea
Author: Gavriil Andreevich Sarychev
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole, Performed in His Majesty's Ships Dorothea and Trent, Under the Command of Captain David Buchan, R.N.; 1818; to which is Added, a Summary of All the Early Attempts to Reach the Pacific by Way of the Pole. [With Plates.]
Author: Frederick William Beechey
Publisher: London : R. Bentley
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher: London : R. Bentley
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole
Author: Frederick William Beechey
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385109914
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385109914
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
The Open Polar Sea
Author: Isaac Israel Hayes
Publisher: London : Sampson Low, Son, and Marston
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Publisher: London : Sampson Low, Son, and Marston
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole
Author: Frederick William Beechey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
In addition to an account of the voyages of the Dorothea and Trent, this volume also includes a summary of all the early attempts to reach the Pacific by way of the Pole.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
In addition to an account of the voyages of the Dorothea and Trent, this volume also includes a summary of all the early attempts to reach the Pacific by way of the Pole.
Labyrinth of Ice
Author: Buddy Levy
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250182204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
National Outdoor Book Awards Winner Winner of the BANFF Adventure Travel Award “A thrilling and harrowing story. If it’s a cliche to say I couldn’t put this book down, well, too bad: I couldn’t put this book down.” —Jess Walter, bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins “Polar exploration is utter madness. It is the insistence of life where life shouldn’t exist. And so, Labyrinth of Ice shows you exactly what happens when the unstoppable meets the unmovable. Buddy Levy outdoes himself here. The details and story are magnificent.” —Brad Meltzer, bestselling author of The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington Based on the author's exhaustive research, the incredible true story of the Greely Expedition, one of the most harrowing adventures in the annals of polar exploration. In July 1881, Lt. A.W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made. Greely and his men confronted every possible challenge—vicious wolves, sub-zero temperatures, and months of total darkness—as they set about exploring one of the most remote, unrelenting environments on the planet. In May 1882, they broke the 300-year-old record, and returned to camp to eagerly await the resupply ship scheduled to return at the end of the year. Only nothing came. 250 miles south, a wall of ice prevented any rescue from reaching them. Provisions thinned and a second winter descended. Back home, Greely’s wife worked tirelessly against government resistance to rally a rescue mission. Months passed, and Greely made a drastic choice: he and his men loaded the remaining provisions and tools onto their five small boats, and pushed off into the treacherous waters. After just two weeks, dangerous floes surrounded them. Now new dangers awaited: insanity, threats of mutiny, and cannibalism. As food dwindled and the men weakened, Greely's expedition clung desperately to life. Labyrinth of Ice tells the true story of the heroic lives and deaths of these voyagers hell-bent on fame and fortune—at any cost—and how their journey changed the world.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250182204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
National Outdoor Book Awards Winner Winner of the BANFF Adventure Travel Award “A thrilling and harrowing story. If it’s a cliche to say I couldn’t put this book down, well, too bad: I couldn’t put this book down.” —Jess Walter, bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins “Polar exploration is utter madness. It is the insistence of life where life shouldn’t exist. And so, Labyrinth of Ice shows you exactly what happens when the unstoppable meets the unmovable. Buddy Levy outdoes himself here. The details and story are magnificent.” —Brad Meltzer, bestselling author of The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington Based on the author's exhaustive research, the incredible true story of the Greely Expedition, one of the most harrowing adventures in the annals of polar exploration. In July 1881, Lt. A.W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made. Greely and his men confronted every possible challenge—vicious wolves, sub-zero temperatures, and months of total darkness—as they set about exploring one of the most remote, unrelenting environments on the planet. In May 1882, they broke the 300-year-old record, and returned to camp to eagerly await the resupply ship scheduled to return at the end of the year. Only nothing came. 250 miles south, a wall of ice prevented any rescue from reaching them. Provisions thinned and a second winter descended. Back home, Greely’s wife worked tirelessly against government resistance to rally a rescue mission. Months passed, and Greely made a drastic choice: he and his men loaded the remaining provisions and tools onto their five small boats, and pushed off into the treacherous waters. After just two weeks, dangerous floes surrounded them. Now new dangers awaited: insanity, threats of mutiny, and cannibalism. As food dwindled and the men weakened, Greely's expedition clung desperately to life. Labyrinth of Ice tells the true story of the heroic lives and deaths of these voyagers hell-bent on fame and fortune—at any cost—and how their journey changed the world.
The North-west Passage and the Plans for the Search for Sir John Franklin
Author: John Brown
Publisher: London : E. Stanford
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions Discovery and exploration British
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
An account of attempts to discover the North-west Passage.
Publisher: London : E. Stanford
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions Discovery and exploration British
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
An account of attempts to discover the North-west Passage.
Symzonia
Author: John Cleves Symmes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Symzonia is a hollow Earth story of the extreme. The way the planet is can best be compared to a ball of yarn - a shell with large holes at both the top and bottom that the sea opens into. The inside is occupied by other people, one of them being Symzonians.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Symzonia is a hollow Earth story of the extreme. The way the planet is can best be compared to a ball of yarn - a shell with large holes at both the top and bottom that the sea opens into. The inside is occupied by other people, one of them being Symzonians.