Arctic Diary

Arctic Diary
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 208
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780753521373
ISBN-13 : 0753521377
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Arctic Diary by : Sam Branson

It's hardly a surprise to discover that Sam Branson has a love of adventure and a real concern about our future in a world where the climate is changing rapidly. Journeying into the heart of the Arctic wilderness with his father and a film crew, Sam explores the changing landscape and the lives of the native Inuit people who have survived in a relentlessly inhospitable environment for 5000 years. Sleeping on frozen seas and encountering majestic polar bears, Sam and his father embark together on a winter expedition which Sam must ultimately complete on his own, finding new depths of resilience and courage in a formidable and breathtaking landscape.

Dangerous Work

Dangerous Work
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 262
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ISBN-10 : 9780226049991
ISBN-13 : 022604999X
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Dangerous Work by : Arthur Conan Doyle

This e-book features the complete text found in the print edition of Dangerous Work, without the illustrations or the facsimile reproductions of Conan Doyle's notebook pages. In 1880 a young medical student named Arthur Conan Doyle embarked upon the “first real outstanding adventure” of his life, taking a berth as ship’s surgeon on an Arctic whaler, the Hope. The voyage took him to unknown regions, showered him with dramatic and unexpected experiences, and plunged him into dangerous work on the ice floes of the Arctic seas. He tested himself, overcame the hardships, and, as he wrote later, “came of age at 80 degrees north latitude.” Conan Doyle’s time in the Arctic provided powerful fuel for his growing ambitions as a writer. With a ghost story set in the Arctic wastes that he wrote shortly after his return, he established himself as a promising young writer. A subsequent magazine article laying out possible routes to the North Pole won him the respect of Arctic explorers. And he would call upon his shipboard experiences many times in the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, who was introduced in 1887’s A Study in Scarlet. Out of sight for more than a century was a diary that Conan Doyle kept while aboard the whaler. Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure makes this account available for the first time. With humor and grace, Conan Doyle provides a vivid account of a long-vanished way of life at sea. His careful detailing of the experience of arctic whaling is equal parts fascinating and alarming, revealing the dark workings of the later days of the British whaling industry. In addition to the transcript of the diary, the e-book contains two nonfiction pieces by Doyle about his experiences; and two of his tales inspired by the journey. To the end of his life, Conan Doyle would look back on this experience with awe: “You stand on the very brink of the unknown,” he declared, “and every duck that you shoot bears pebbles in its gizzard which come from a land which the maps know not. It was a strange and fascinating chapter of my life.” Only now can the legion of Conan Doyle fans read and enjoy that chapter.

The Arctic Diary of Russell Williams Porter

The Arctic Diary of Russell Williams Porter
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Publisher : Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015021938678
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis The Arctic Diary of Russell Williams Porter by : Russell Williams Porter

The author's narrative of his expeditions into the arctic with famous explorers such as Peary and Cook, illustrated with his pencil sketches and watercolours.

The Greatest Show in the Arctic

The Greatest Show in the Arctic
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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages : 760
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ISBN-10 : 9780806154459
ISBN-13 : 0806154454
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis The Greatest Show in the Arctic by : P. J. Capelotti

In Gilded Age America, Arctic explorers were fabulous celebrities—assured of riches and near-immortality so long as they reached the North Pole first. Of the many attempts to meet that goal, three American expeditions, launched from the Russian archipelago of Franz Josef Land, ended in abject failure, their exploits consigned to near-oblivion. Even so, these ventures—the Wellman expedition (1898–99), the Baldwin-Ziegler (1901–2), and the Fiala-Ziegler (1903–5)—have much to tell us about the personalities, politics, and economics of exploration in their day. In The Greatest Show in the Arctic, the first book to chronicle all three expeditions, P. J. Capelotti explores what went right and what, in the end, went tragically wrong. The cast of colorful characters from the Franz Josef Land forays included Walter Wellman, a Chicago journalist and bon vivant running from debts, his mistress, and an illegitimate daughter; Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, a deranged meteorologist with a fetish for balloons and a passion for Swedish conserves; and Anthony Fiala, a pious photographer in search of God in the Arctic. Featuring an international cast of supporting characters worthy of a three-ring circus, The Greatest Show in the Arctic follows each of the three expeditions in turn, from spectacular feats of financing to their bitter ends. Along the way, the explorers accumulated considerable geographic knowledge and left a legacy of place-names. Through close study of the expeditions’ journals, Capelotti reveals that the Franz Josef Land endeavors foundered chiefly because of poor leadership and internal friction, not for lack of funding, as historians have previously suspected. Presenting tales of noble intentions, novel inventions, and epic miscalculations, The Greatest Show in the Arctic brings fresh life to a unique and underappreciated story of American exploration.

Curse of the Arctic Star

Curse of the Arctic Star
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 208
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781416990727
ISBN-13 : 1416990720
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Curse of the Arctic Star by : Carolyn Keene

Nancy and her friends Bess and George tour the dangerous waters off the coast of Alaska on a posh new ship's maiden voyage, a journey that is overshadowed by a series of deaths and near-misses that reveal the work of a saboteur.

My Arctic Journal

My Arctic Journal
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Publisher : New York ; Philadelphia, Pa. : Contemporary Publishing Company
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89098879075
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis My Arctic Journal by : Josephine Diebitsch Peary

Mrs. Peary's experiences at McCormick Bay, N.W. Greenland 1891-92. Includes observations on Eskimo customs.

My Arctic Journal

My Arctic Journal
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Publisher : Cooper Square Press
Total Pages : 313
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ISBN-10 : 9781461661177
ISBN-13 : 146166117X
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis My Arctic Journal by : Josephine Peary

Wife of self-proclaimed North Pole discoverer Robert Edwin Peary, Josephine Peary was the first woman apart from the Inuit to take part in an Arctic expedition. My Arctic Journal, unavailable for nearly a century, is Peary's memoir of the time she spent, from June of 1891 to August of 1892, accompanying her husband and his exploration party across the northernmost expanses of Greenland. Peary recounts in detail the hardships of life in the frozen North, and describes at length the customs of the Inuit natives, among whom she spent a great deal of time. She also tells of her experiences hunting near the top of the world, and gives her impressions of the other members of the expedition, who included explorers Dr. Frederick Cook and Matthew Henson. Richly illustrated and written with candor and emotion, My Arctic Journal is a unique gem of an exploration memoir.

The Ice Balloon

The Ice Balloon
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9780307741868
ISBN-13 : 0307741869
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis The Ice Balloon by : Alec Wilkinson

In 1897, at the height of the heroic age of Arctic exploration, the visionary Swedish explorer S. A. Andrée made a revolutionary attempt to discover the North Pole by flying over it in a hydrogen balloon. Thirty-three years later, his expedition diaries and papers would be discovered on the ice. Alec Wilkinson uses the explorer’s papers and contemporary sources to tell the full story of this ambitious voyage, while also showing how the late 19th century’s spirit of exploration and scientific discovery drove over 1,000 explorers to the unforgiving Arctic landscape. Suspenseful and haunting, Wilkinson captures Andrée’s remarkable adventure and illuminates the detail, beauty, and devastating conditions of traveling and dwelling on the ice.

Georgia, an Arctic Diary

Georgia, an Arctic Diary
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Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015029508168
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Georgia, an Arctic Diary by : Georgia

A diary of one arctic year which is an amalgam of the many years lived in Igloolik and Repulse Bay.

Strangers on a Train

Strangers on a Train
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 130
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781442465718
ISBN-13 : 1442465719
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Strangers on a Train by : Carolyn Keene

Nancy and her friends take their detective skills on an Alaskan adventure in this second book of the Nancy Drew Diaries, a fresh approach to a classic series. Nancy’s Alaskan adventure continues as she, Bess, and George disembark the mystery-plagued Arctic Star cruise ship and explore the grand sites of the forty-ninth state: Skagway; the Yukon territory, and Denali National Park. It’s spectacular scenery, but things start to go wrong almost immediately, leading Nancy to believe that whoever was behind the unsolved mayhem aboard the ship has followed them onto dry land. The girl detectives had better watch their steps—they’re on uncharted and unknown territory!