Polar Regions category: 485 books
Winter Wise
Travel and Survival in Ice and Snow
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
A man who has spent his professional life measuring the flow of northern rivers, climbed Alaska’s Mount McKinley, was a member of both Yale University and Maine University’s scientific expeditions to the Antarctic, guided a film crew documenting the late Robert Kennedy’s ascent of Mount Kennedy,...
True North
Travels in Arctic Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The stark, vast beauty of the remote Arctic Europe landscape has been the focus of human exploration for thousands of years. In this striking blend of travel writing, history and mythology, Gavin Francis offers a unique portrait of the northern fringes of Europe. His journey begins in the Shetland...
by Lonely Planet
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
Lonely Planet ***Panama***is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Sip coconuts on a Caribbean beach; lay eyes on the awe-inspiring Panama Canal; or hike through sublime cloud forests; all with your trusted travel companion....
by Lonely Planet
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
Lonely Planet ***Nicaragua***is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Kayak through Central America's largest mangrove forest, experience life on a coffee farm, or chill out on idyllic white-sand beaches; all with your...
by Gloria M. Hunter - Alcock
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
The adventures of a young Canadian nurse who lived and worked for several years in the Canadian Arctic, providing health care to the Inuit people.
The stories you are about the read took place more than forty years ago; before Anik satellite, when Iqaluit was Frobisher Bay, Inuit were Eskimo,...
by Harry de Windt
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
3 works of Harry de Windt Explorer and travel writer (1856-1933)
This ebook presents a collection of 3 works of Harry de Windt. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table of Contents: A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán From Paris to New York by Land On the Equator
The North Pole
It's Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Club
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2013
"The North Pole" is Capt. Robert E. Peary's personal account of his expedition to attempt to be the first Man to reach the Geographic North Pole. Peary achieved his dream in 1909 (although doubt has subsequently been raised as to whether he actually arrived at the Pole itself, or only...
by Roald Amundsen
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This edition is published in 2 volumes sold separately.
Elibron Classics. Replica of 1908 edition by Archibald Constable & Company Limited, London.
Oversize maps are available as a free download.
By Roald Amundsen, with a Supplement by First Lieutenant Hansen, Vice-commander of the Expedition....
by Fridtjof Nansen, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Extrait : "Le 24 juin 1893, en Norvège, le jour de la fête de l'été. Pour nous, il arrive plein de tristesse. C'est le moment du départ. Je quitte ma maison, et seul je descends à travers le jardin vers la grève où m'attend la vedette du Fram. Derrière moi je laisse tout ce que j'ai de plus...
Voyages dans les glaces du pôle arctique à la recherche du passage Nord-Ouest
Extraits des relations de Sir John Ross, Edward Parry... Mac Clure et autres navigateurs célèbres
Language: French
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Extrait : "A peine Colomb eut-il révélé à l'Europe l'existence de l'Amérique, que le désir de trouver au nord de ces nouvelles terres une route directe vers les roches contrées des épices, où les Portugais venaient d'aborder par la voie d'Orient, poussa les navigateurs jusqu'à une très haute...
by Angelo Heilprin
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
The leader of the relief expedition gives a short account of the journey to Peary's Aid.
The Man Who Ate His Boots
The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
After the triumphant end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British took it upon themselves to complete something they had been trying to do since the sixteenth century: find the fabled Northwest Passage. For the next thirty-five years the British Admiralty sent out expedition after expedition to...
Resolute
The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
A riveting true adventure story….An award-winning, bestselling author…A page-turner that’s impossible to put down. Almost everyone knows the photo of John F. Kennedy, Jr., as a young boy, peering out from under his father’s desk in the Oval Office. But few realize that the desk itself plays...
by Robert E. Peary, Theodore Roosevelt, Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS Introduction Foreword I The Plan II Preparations III ...