Polar Regions

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410203359Author A W GreelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams) 472g

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The Joint Arctic Weather Stations were five meteorological and scientific monitoring stations constructed at Resolute, Eureka, Mould Bay, Isachsen, and Alert with the cooperation of the Canadian Department of Transport's meteorological branch and the...

The US Naval Institute Wheel Books provide important information, pragmatic advice, and cogent analysis on topics important to all naval professionals. Drawn from the US Naval Institute's vast archives, the series combines articles from the Institute's...

Available for the first time in English, this collection is of particular significance in a world where global climate change and its impact on communities, flora, and fauna is changing the way we govern our lives. Presented in both contemporary and...

Emil Bessels was chief scientist and medical officer on George Francis Hall's ill-fated American North Pole Expedition of 1871-73 on board the ship Polaris. Bessels' book, translated from the German in its entirety for the first time, is one of only two...

Long recognized by naturalists and adventurers as a dramatically unique region, the Arctic has recently emerged as an area of increasing political, strategic, and economic importance. The Arctic is both one of the world's largest and smallest regions,...

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"I will never speak lightly of an Antarctic winter night again--I have been through one . . . ." In 1939, Admiral Richard E. Byrd led his last expedition to the Ross Ice Shelf on the continent of Antarctica. A 25-year-old geologist named...

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Robert Falcon Scott's 1901-4 expedition to the Antarctic was a landmark event in the history of Antarctic exploration and created a sensation comparable to the Arctic efforts of the American Robert E. Peary. Scott's initial expedition was also the first...

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Although the Antarctic ice pack and some offshore islands had been sighted and even landed upon briefly as early as the 1820s, it was not until an eccentric Anglo-Norwegian explorer, Carsten F. Borchgrevink, went ashore in 1895 that a human being set...

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In 1910 Roald Amundsen set off from Oslo toward the North Pole but soon received word that two Americans Frederick Cook and Robert Peary each claimed to have reached the Pole ahead of him. Devastated, Amundsen famously went south. For years Cook and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510710757Author Wilson McOristFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Sky Pony PressPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 567g

North Pole Legacy tells the story of two men whose existence was for decades nothing more than a popular legend. But that rumor was finally verified in 1986 when author S. Allen Counter journeyed to northern Greenland, and met this pair of remarkable men...

This collection of transcribed stories from the Thule region of northern Greenland, begun in 1935, represents stories told to the editor by 5 different Inuit. Holtved recorded these on long playing records along with songs and chants, providing a rich...

This book will appeal to historians, political scientists, geographers, lawyers, government officials, and policy makers interested in the law of the sea, environmental security, the economic development of the North, Arctic navigation and shipping, and...

Acts of Occupation will appeal to students and practitioners of Canadian history, politics, and foreign policy and anyone interested in the history of the North.Book InformationISBN 9780774818681Author Janice CavellFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint...

Traced here are the beginnings of literacy and literature for Inuit living in Labrador and the eastern Canadian arctic. Inuit living in Labrador in the 19th and early 20th centuries were more literate than white settlers as a direct result of the...

The catechist Johannes Hansen, called Hanserak, a Greenlandic missionary, was part of Captain Gustav Holm's well-known umiaq expedition to the east coast of Greenland (1884 - 1885) which passed the winter in Angmagssalik and discovered 11 Inuit...

This book will be of interest to scholars, students, and public servants doing research and work in the areas of Canadian public administration, Indigenous governance, public policy, and territorial governance.Book InformationISBN 9780774831031Author...

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Antarctica is, and has always been, very much “for sale.” Whales, seals, and ice have all been marketed as valuable commodities, but so have the stories of explorers. The modern media industry developed in parallel with land-based Antarctic exploration,...

In 1906, from the ice fields northwest of Greenland, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted an unknown land in the distance. He called it "Crocker Land". Scientists and explorers agreed that Peary had found a new continent. Several years later, two of his...

In 1906, from the ice fields northwest of Greenland, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted an unknown land in the distance. He called it "Crocker Land". Scientists and explorers agreed that Peary had found a new continent. Several years later, two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772030204Author L. D. CrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co LtdWeight(grams)...

In the late 1800s, "Arctic Fever" swept across the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to the Arctic to find a sea route to Asia and, ultimately, to stand at the North Pole. Few of these missions were successful, and many men...

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This richly illustrated book takes a different angle on Robert E. Peary's North Pole expedition. By shifting the focus away from the unanswerable question of whether he truly reached 90 North Latitude, the authors shed light on equally important stories...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorRobert Bunes started his career as a General Practioner in medicine, but spent most of his career as a Legal Psychiatrist specializing in civil litigation cases...