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Ice Floes and Flaming Water

Author : Peter Freuchen
Publisher : New York : J. Messner
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : UOM:39015008791900

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Ice Floes and Flaming Water by Peter Freuchen Pdf

Author's narrative of rescue of whalers stranded on sea ice in 1911. Their strange story.

Arctic Mirage

Author : Winton U. Solberg
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476679952

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Arctic Mirage by Winton U. Solberg Pdf

In 1913, an expedition was sent to the Arctic, funded by the American Museum of Natural History, the American Geographical Society and the University of Illinois. Its purpose was twofold: to discover whether an archipelago called Crocker Land--reportedly spotted by an earlier explorer in 1906--actually existed; and to engage in scientific research in the Arctic. When explorers discovered that Crocker Land did not exist, they instead pursued their research, made a number of important discoveries and documented the region's indigenous inhabitants and natural habitat. Their return to America was delayed by the difficulty of engaging a relief ship, and by the danger of German submarines in Arctic waters during the World War I.

Camp Century

Author : Henry Nielsen,Kristian Hvidtfeldt Nielsen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231554251

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Camp Century by Henry Nielsen,Kristian Hvidtfeldt Nielsen Pdf

At the height of the Cold War, the United States Army secretly began work on a base embedded deep in the Greenland ice cap: Camp Century. Officially defined as a scientific research station, this facility had an undisclosed purpose: to aim up to 600 nuclear warheads, buried in the ice, at the Soviet Union. In 1966, just six years after the camp was established, the United States gave up this provocative strategy and abandoned the base. Despite its brief life, Camp Century has been the cause of controversies from diplomatic relations between the United States and its Arctic allies, Denmark and Greenland, to the risks of radioactive waste abandoned at the site. This book is the first comprehensive account of the U.S. Army’s “city under the ice.” Beginning with the Truman administration’s vision of military superiority in the Arctic and continuing through present-day concerns over the effects of climate change, Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen unravel the extraordinary history of this clandestine installation. Drawing on sources including top-secret memos and never-before-seen photographic evidence, they follow the intertwining threads of high-level politics, ice-core research, media representations, daily life beneath the ice, and the specter of long-buried environmental problems that will one day resurface. Camp Century reveals a hidden chapter of Cold War history—and why, as the Greenland ice cap slowly melts, this story is not yet over.

A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier

Author : David Welky
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393254426

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A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier by David Welky Pdf

A Booklist Best Literary Travel Book (2017) and Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book (2016) “A penetrating study of human character in a challenging environment. . . . [David Welky’s] seamless narrative, chilling at times and always thought-provoking, transports the reader to a time when the Arctic was virtually as harsh and inaccessible a place as the Moon or Mars.” —Natural History From a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, famed Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary spots a line of mysterious peaks dotting the horizon. In 1906, he names that distant, uncharted territory “Crocker Land.” Years later, two of Peary’s disciples, George Borup and Donald MacMillan, take the brave steps Peary never did: with a team of amateur adventurers and intrepid native guides, they endeavor to reach this unknown land and fill in the last blank space on the globe. What follows is hardship and mishap the likes of which none of the explorers could possibly have imagined. From howling blizzards and desperate food shortages to crime and tragedy, the explorers experience a remarkable journey of endurance, courage, and hope. Set in one of the world’s most inhospitable places, A Wretched and Precarious Situation is an Arctic tale unlike any other.

Catalog of Copyright Entries

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : American literature
ISBN : UIUC:30112100648689

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011809204

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (July - December)

Food and Language

Author : Richard Hosking
Publisher : Oxford Symposium
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781903018798

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Essays on food and language from the Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cooking 2009.

Doing Fieldwork

Author : Rosalie Wax
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0226869512

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Doing Fieldwork by Rosalie Wax Pdf

Recounting her own field experiences in Japanese-American relocation centers during World War II and later in American Indian communities, Rosalie H. Wax offers advice to help the beginning field worker anticipate and confront the exigencies and accidents of fieldwork with good nature, fortitude, and common sense. Doing Fieldwork is a useful book in many respects: as a guide to participant observation and ethnographic fieldwork; as an analysis of the theoretical presuppositions and history of fieldwork; as a discussion of contemporary issues in social science research; and simply as an entertaining and dramatic story.

Guiding Creative Talent

Author : E. Paul Torrance
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781789125009

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Guiding Creative Talent by E. Paul Torrance Pdf

Anyone with an interest in the problems of highly creative children will find this volume useful in guiding a wide range of creative talent at all age and educational levels. In preparing this material, I have drawn most heavily upon my own research and that of my colleagues concerning the creative thinking of children, adolescents, and adults. Although my emphasis is upon the problems of highly creative children, I believe you will find these materials useful in guiding a wide range of creative talent at all age and educational levels. I have also attempted to give these research findings and observations meaning from my experience as a teacher, counselor, and principal in a high school and as a college teacher and counselor, roles in which I have met many highly creative individuals. I have also drawn upon my research concerning behavior under emergency and extreme conditions, especially situations involving coercion.

Traditional Inuit Songs from the Thule Area

Author : Michael Hauser
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 8763525895

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Traditional Inuit Songs from the Thule Area by Michael Hauser Pdf

"Transcriptions and investigations of traditional songs from the Thule Area recorded by Erik Holtved in 1937 and Michael Hauser and Bent Jensen in 1962. Further investigations with music examples of traditional songs from the Uummannaq-Upernavik Areas, the Baffin Island Areas and the Copper Inuit Areas."

A.L.A. Booklist

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UCAL:B2958026

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The Booklist

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Books
ISBN : UVA:X004347595

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Polar Manual

Author : United States. Naval Medical School, Bethesda, Md. Department of Cold Weather Medicine,Earland E. Hedblom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Arctic medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015072233102

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Polar Manual by United States. Naval Medical School, Bethesda, Md. Department of Cold Weather Medicine,Earland E. Hedblom Pdf

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints

Author : Library of Congress,American Library Association. Committee on Resources of American Libraries. National Union Catalog Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Catalogs, Union
ISBN : UOM:39015082985956

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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints by Library of Congress,American Library Association. Committee on Resources of American Libraries. National Union Catalog Subcommittee Pdf

Witch King

Author : Simon Kewin
Publisher : Stormcrow Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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