Ice Blink

Author : Scott Cookman
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470313299

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Ice Blink by Scott Cookman Pdf

"Absorbing.artfully narrat[es] a possible course of events in the expedition's demise, based on the one official note and bits of debris (including evidence of cannibalism) found by searchers sent to look for Franklin in the 1850s. Adventure readers will flock to this fine regaling of the enduring mystery surrounding the best-known disaster in Arctic exploration."--Booklist "A great Victorian adventure story rediscovered and re-presented for a more enquiring time."--The Scotsman "A vivid, sometimes harrowing chronicle of miscalculation and overweening Victorian pride in untried technology.a work of great compassion."--The Australian It has been called the greatest disaster in the history of polar exploration. Led by Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, two state-of-the-art ships and 128 hand-picked men----the best and the brightest of the British empire----sailed from Greenland on July 12, 1845 in search of the elusive Northwest Passage. Fourteen days later, they were spotted for the last time by two whalers in Baffin Bay. What happened to these ships----and to the 129 men on board----has remained one of the most enduring mysteries in the annals of exploration. Drawing upon original research, Scott Cookman provides an unforgettable account of the ill-fated Franklin expedition, vividly reconstructing the lives of those touched by the voyage and its disaster. But, more importantly, he suggests a human culprit and presents a terrifying new explanation for what triggered the deaths of Franklin and all 128 of his men. This is a remarkable and shocking historical account of true-life suspense and intrigue.

Author : Stephen Bocking,Brad Martin
Publisher : Canadian History and Environment
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : 1552388549

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Ice Blink by Stephen Bocking,Brad Martin Pdf

Cover -- Series Page -- Full Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1: Navigating Northern Environmental History -- Part 1: Forming Northern Colonial Environments -- 2: Moving through the Margins:The "All-Canadian" Route tothe Klondike and the StrangeExperience of the Teslin Trail -- 3: The Experimental State of Nature: Science and the Canadian Reindeer Project in the Interwar North -- 4: Shaped by the Land: An Envirotechnical History of a Canadian Bush Plane -- 5: Many Tiny Traces: Antimodernism and Northern Exploration Between the Wars -- Part 2: Transformations and the Modern North -- 6: From Subsistence to Nutrition: The Canadian State's Involvement in Food and Diet in the North,1900-1970 -- 7: Hope in the Barrenlands: Northern Development and Sustainability's Canadian History -- 8: Western Electric Turns North: Technicians and the Transformation of the Cold War Arctic -- Part 3: Environmental History and the Contemporary North -- 9: "That's the Place Where I Was Born": History, Narrative Ecology, and Politics in Canada's North -- 10: Imposing Territoriality: First Nation Land Claims and the Transformation of Human-Environment Relations in the Yukon -- 11: Ghost Towns and Zombie Mines: The Historical Dimensions of Mine Abandonment, Reclamation, and Redevelopment in the Canadian North -- 12: Toxic Surprises: Contaminants and Knowledgein the Northern Environment -- 13: Climate Anti-Politics: Scale, Locality, and Arctic Climate Change -- Conclusion -- 14: Encounters in Northern Environmental History -- Contributors -- Index

Author : Bernadette Hince
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 095774711X

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The Antarctic Dictionary by Bernadette Hince Pdf

The world's most isolated continent has spawned some of the most unusual words in the English language. This comprehensive guide to the origins and definitions of such words as donga and growler, is supported by more than 15,000 quotations drawn from over 1000 sources. A treat for anyone who's ever dreamed of visiting Antarctica.

Author : Tim Wynne-Jones
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780763654559

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Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones Pdf

Two street kids get tangled in a plot over their heads - and risk an unexpected connection - in this heart-pounding thriller by Tim Wynne-Jones. (Age 14 and up) Boy, did Blink get off on the wrong floor. All he wanted was to steal some breakfast for his empty belly, but instead he stumbled upon a fake kidnapping and a cell phone dropped by an "abducted" CEO, giving Blink a link to his perfect blonde daughter. Now Blink is on the run, but it’s OK as long as he’s smart enough to stay in the game and keep Captain Panic locked in his hold. Enter a girl named Caution. As in "Caution: Toxic." As in "Caution: Watch Your Step." She’s also on the run, from a skeezy drug-dealer boyfriend and from a nightmare in her past that won’t let her go. When she spies Blink at the train station, Caution can see he’s an easy mark. But there’s something about this naïve, skinny street punk, whom she only wanted to rob, that tugs at her heart, a heart she thought deserved not to feel. Charged with suspense and intrigue, this taut novel trails two deeply compelling characters as they forge a blackmail scheme that is foolhardy at best, disastrous at worst - along with a fated, tender partnership that will offer them each a rare chance for redemption.

Author : Paul Tawrell
Publisher : Paul Tawrell
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Camping
ISBN : 0974082023

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Camping & Wilderness Survival by Paul Tawrell Pdf

Extensively researched and illustrated guidebook of nearly every conceivable aspect of outdoor camping and survival in all types of terrain and climate.

Author : Graham Danton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134740789

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Theory and Practice of Seamanship XI by Graham Danton Pdf

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : John Hobbie Roscoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Aerial photography
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU10487646

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Antarctica by John Hobbie Roscoe Pdf

Author : Rip Bulkeley
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030595463

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The Historiography of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition, 1819–21 by Rip Bulkeley Pdf

This book looks at the different ways in which Russian historians and authors have thought about their country’s first Antarctic expedition (1819-21) over the past 200 years. It considers the effects their discussions have had on Russia’s Antarctic policy and may yet have on Antarctica itself. In particular, it examines the Soviet decision in 1949, in line with the cultural policies of late Stalinism, to revise the traditional view of the expedition in order to claim that it was Russian seamen that first sighted the Antarctic mainland in January 1820; this claim remains the official position in Russia today. The author illustrates, however, that the case for such a claim has never been established, and that attempts to make it damaged the work of successive Russian historians. Providing a timely assessment of Russian historiography of the Bellingshausen expedition and examining the connections between the priority claim and national policy goals, this book represents an important contribution to the history of the Antarctic.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : UIUC:30112075641776

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Naval Arctic Manual by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Hydrographic Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Pilot guides
ISBN : UIUC:30112065948389

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Sailing Directions for the East Coast of Greenland from Prince Christian Sound to Cape Morris Jesup and Iceland Including the Island of Jan Mayen by United States. Hydrographic Office Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Europe
ISBN : HARVARD:HXJ8UB

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The New Annual Register, Or, General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Europe
ISBN : IND:30000108666292

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The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Simon Faithfull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : UCSD:31822035938570

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Ice Blink by Simon Faithfull Pdf

Travelling to Antarctica, from RAF Brize Norton via Ascension Island and the Falklands, Simon Faithfull recorded the displaced and disorienting world he encountered. He filmed the view looking out from his cabin porthole on the RSS Ernest Shackleton, taking in passing icebergs and frozen seas, and responded to his surroundings with Palm Pilot drawings transmitted each day to e-mail inboxes around the world. Combined with diary entries and notes, these drawings and films have been incorporated into a series of lectures presented in Edinburgh, Helsinki, Norwich, Berlin and London. Also reproduced in book form, Ice Blink: an Antarctic Essay is a dispatch from nowhere, exploring the Antarctic as a hole in the imagination, combining Antarctic myths and fictions, histories of colonial endeavour, lifecycles of icebergs and the very real effects of global warming, with images of contested and uncharted territories.

Author : John EVANS (Lieutenant, R.N.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017806134

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A revision and explanation of the Geographical and Hydrographical terms, and those of a nautical character relating thereto; with descriptions of winds, storms, clouds, etc by John EVANS (Lieutenant, R.N.) Pdf

Author : H.W. Tilman
Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781909461376

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In Mischief's Wake by H.W. Tilman Pdf

'I felt like one who had first betrayed and then deserted a stricken friend; a friend with whom for the past fourteen years I had spent more time at sea than on land, and who, when not at sea, had seldom been out of my thoughts.' The first of the three voyages described in In Mischief's Wake gives H.W. 'Bill' Tilman's account of the final voyage and loss of Mischief, the Bristol Channel pilot cutter in which he had sailed over 100,000 miles to high latitudes in both Arctic and Antarctic waters. Back home, refusing to accept defeat and going against the advice of his surveyor, he takes ownership of Sea Breeze, built in 1899; 'a bit long in the tooth, but no more so, in fact a year less, than her prospective owner'. After extensive remedial work, his first attempt at departure had to be cut short when the crew 'enjoyed a view of the Isle of Wight between two of the waterline planks'. After yet more expense, Sea Breeze made landfall in Iceland before heading north toward the East Greenland coast in good shape and well stocked with supplies. A mere forty miles from the entrance to Scoresby Sound, Tilman's long-sought-after objective, 'a polite mutiny' forced him to abandon the voyage and head home. The following year, with a crew game for all challenges, a series of adventures on the west coast of Greenland gave Tilman a voyage he considered ' certainly the happiest', in a boat which was proving to be a worthy successor to his beloved Mischief.