Man On The Ice

Author : Rex Saunders
Publisher : Flanker Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Sealers (Persons)
ISBN : 1771170360

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Man on the Ice by Rex Saunders Pdf

"This is going to be a good day out in boat," said Rex Saunders, a sixty-six-year-old sealer from St. Lunaire-Griquet, NL, before heading out to the icefields on May 4, 2009. Later that day, the cold and unforgiving waters of the Atlantic Ocean nearly claimed another victim after his boat capsized. He had phoned his wife mere moments before the mishap and told her to expect him home in an hour, but now the sealer found himself stranded and alone on an ice floe. There he spent the next two nights, miles from shore and armed only with a flotation suit, a five-gallon gas can, and his faith. Man on the Ice is the autobiography of Rex Saunders, a man of faith who grew up on the rugged shores of the Great Northern Peninsula. His battle with the elements made national headlines when this everyman-turned-hero stared death in the face while waiting for a miracle he knew would come.

Author : Humphrey Hawksley
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786895127

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Man on Ice by Humphrey Hawksley Pdf

Special agent Captain Rake Ozenna watches as a fleet of Russian military helicopters head straight for his home. His tiny Alaskan island, with a population of just eighty. What he doesn't know yet, is why. Russia is playing a dangerous political game, reclaiming Rake's island as their own, even if it antagonises the US. Caught in the crosshairs of sabre-rattling big powers, Rake is determined to save his people and his island, even if it costs him his life.

Author : Konrad Spindler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Alps, Eastern
ISBN : 0753812606

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The Man in the Ice by Konrad Spindler Pdf

Dr Spindler led the international team of scientists that investigated the body of the Neolithic man discovered in the ice of a glacier in the Otztaler Alps on the Austrian-Italian border in 1991. In this first book in English to report on the find, Spindler recounts the day by day events following the discovery of the body, and then gives detailed discussion of the Iceman's equipment, his clothing, and the examination of the corpse itself. Final chapters place the Iceman in the context of the Neolithic Age in the Circum-Alpine region, and present a few reactions to the discovery. Now avaiable in paperback.

Author : Konrad Spindler
Publisher : Phoenix
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780225890

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The Man In The Ice by Konrad Spindler Pdf

In 1991 the world was electrified by a chance discovery of a perfectly preserved corpse trapped in an Alpine glacier. Preliminary tests showed that this was the body of a Neolithic hunter who died some 5300 years ago. Now Dr Konrad Spindler, the leader of an international team of scientists examining the body, makes the results of his investigations public for the first time and answers a series of fascinating questions about the `Ice Man' and the clues he can give us to the nature of daily life in the late Stone Age. The result is a riveting scientific detective story, giving us the fullest picture yet of Neolithic Man - our ancestor.

Author : Diana Palmer
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781474012935

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Man Of Ice by Diana Palmer Pdf

Ice Man: Dawson Rutherford, our 100th Silhouette hero! His scheme: Plan a mock engagement to help secure the land he so desperately needed.

Author : Jordin Tootoo
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143193104

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All the Way by Jordin Tootoo Pdf

It seemed as though nothing could stop Jordin Tootoo on the ice. The captain of Canada’s Under-18, a fan favourite on the World Junior squad, and a WHL top prospect who could intimidate both goalies and enforcers, he was always a leader. And when Tootoo was drafted by Nashville in 2000 and made the Predators out of camp in 2003, he became a leader in another way: the first player of Inuk descent to suit up in the NHL. The stress of competition in the world’s top hockey league, the travel, the media, the homesickness—and the added pressure to hold one’s head high as a role model not only for the young people of his hometown of Rankin Inlet but for the culture that had given him the strength and the opportunities to succeed—would have been more than enough to challenge any rookie. But Tootoo faced something far more difficult: the loss of his brother in the year between his draft and his first shift for the Predators. Though he played through it, the tragedy took its inevitable toll. In 2010, Tootoo checked himself into rehab for alcohol addiction. It seemed a promising career had ended too soon. But that’s not the way Tootoo saw it and not the way it would end. As heir to a cultural legacy that included alcohol, despair, and suicide, Tootoo could also draw on a heritage that could help sustain him even thousands of miles away from Nunavut. And in a community haunted by the same hopelessness and substance abuse that so affected Tootoo’s life, it is not just his skill and fearlessness on the ice that have made him a hero, but the courage of his honesty to himself and to the world around him that he needed to rely on others to sustain him through his toughest challenge. All the Way tells the story of someone who has travelled far from home to realize a dream, someone who has known glory and cheering crowds, but also the demons of despair. It is the searing, honest tale of a young man who has risen to every challenge and nearly fallen short in the toughest game of all, while finding a way to draw strength from his community and heritage, and giving back to it as well.

Author : Ron Cutler
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 078601654X

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Ice-Man by Ron Cutler Pdf

Beautiful prison psychologist Holly Alexander finds herself the target of a vicious and murderous sociopath, Jason Briscoe, a man convicted of a brutal sex slaying, after she approves his parole.

Author : Philip Carlo
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781429902663

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The Ice Man by Philip Carlo Pdf

Philip Carlo's The Ice Man spent over six weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. Top Mob Hitman. Devoted Family Man. Doting Father. For thirty years, Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski led a shocking double life, becoming the most notorious professional assassin in American history while happily hosting neighborhood barbecues in suburban New Jersey. Richard Kuklinski was Sammy the Bull Gravano's partner in the killing of Paul Castellano, then head of the Gambino crime family, at Sparks Steakhouse. Mob boss John Gotti hired him to torture and kill the neighbor who accidentally ran over his child. For an additional price, Kuklinski would make his victims suffer; he conducted this sadistic business with coldhearted intensity and shocking efficiency, never disappointing his customers. By his own estimate, he killed over two hundred men, taking enormous pride in his variety and ferocity of technique. This trail of murder lasted over thirty years and took Kuklinski all over America and to the far corners of the earth, Brazil, Africa, and Europe. Along the way, he married, had three children, and put them through Catholic school. His daughter's medical condition meant regular stays in children's hospitals, where Kuklinski was remembered, not as a gangster, but as an affectionate father, extremely kind to children. Each Christmas found the Kuklinski home festooned in colorful lights; each summer was a succession of block parties. His family never suspected a thing. Richard Kuklinski is now the subject of the major motion picture titled "The Iceman"(2013), starring James Franco, Winona Ryder, Ray Liotta, and Chris Evans.

Author : Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000048659420

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Secrets of the Ice Man by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent Pdf

Describes the examination of the Ice Man, his clothing and equipment, found in the Alps near the Austrian-Italian border in September 1991 and thought to be more than 4000 years old.

Author : Fred Hogge
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781639361847

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Of Ice and Men by Fred Hogge Pdf

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An exploration of humanity’s relationship with ice since the dawn of civilization, Of Ice and Men reminds us that only by understanding this unique substance can we save the ice on our planet—and perhaps ourselves. Ice tells a story. It writes it in rock. It lays it down, snowfall by snowfall at the ends of the earth where we may read it like the rings on a tree. It tells our planet’s geological and climatological tale. Ice tells another story too: a story about us. It is a tale packed with swash-buckling adventure and improbable invention, peopled with driven, eccentric, often brilliant characters. It tells how our species has used ice to reshape the world according to our needs and our desires: how we have survived it, harvested it, traded it, bent science to our will to make it—and how in doing so we have created globe-spanning infrastructures that are entirely dependent upon it. And even after we have done all that, we take ice so much for granted that we barely notice it. Ice has supercharged the modern world. It has allowed us to feed ourselves and cure ourselves in ways unimaginable two hundred years ago. It has enabled the global population to rise from less than 1 billion to nearly 7½ billion—which just happens to cover the same period of time as humanity has harvested, manufactured, and distributed ice on an industrial scale. And yet the roots of our fascination with ice and its properties run much deeper than the recent past.

Author : Wim Hof
Publisher : Rider
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-14
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1846046300

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The Wim Hof Method by Wim Hof Pdf

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING PHENOMENOM 'I've never felt so alive' JOE WICKS 'The book will change your life' BEN FOGLE My hope is to inspire you to retake control of your body and life by unleashing the immense power of the mind. 'The Iceman' Wim Hof shares his remarkable life story and powerful method for supercharging your strength, health and happiness. Refined over forty years and championed by scientists across the globe, you'll learn how to harness three key elements of Cold, Breathing and Mindset to master mind over matter and achieve the impossible. 'Wim is a legend of the power ice has to heal and empower' BEAR GRYLLS 'Thor-like and potent...Wim has radioactive charisma' RUSSELL BRAND

Author : Anthony Bruno
Publisher : Dell
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780345540096

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The Iceman by Anthony Bruno Pdf

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, with Ray Liotta and Chris Evans He was smart, merciless, and deadly. And it took someone just as tough to bring him down. A mob contract killer known as “The Iceman” for hiding a body in an ice-cream truck freezer, Richard Kuklinski boasted a personal body count of more than a hundred victims. Using guns, knives, poison, ice picks, tire irons, baseball bats, and bombs, the family man from New Jersey killed for fun, for money, to cover up his own crimes, and to satisfy his inner rage. Law enforcement officials knew all about Kuklinski and had a list of his victims, but couldn’t get near him—until undercover agent Dominick Polifrone posed as a mobster and began a deadly game of cat and mouse. In this harrowing true-crime account, Anthony Bruno delves into the mind of a cold-blooded killer, chronicling the Iceman’s grisly crimes and probing the bizarre dynamics of Agent Polifrone’s dangerous liaison with him. For as Polifrone carefully built up a case against Kuklinksi, he knew he was running out of time—because the Iceman was planning to kill him too. “Bruno puts his writing talents to white-knuckle use with a tight focus on a killer with no human feelings.”—Kirkus Reviews “Excellent . . . [re-creates] the tension and stress Polifrone experienced in fulfilling his risky undercover assignment.”—Publishers Weekly

Author : Victor Herman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Americans
ISBN : UCAL:B4421790

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Coming Out of the Ice by Victor Herman Pdf

This American's memoirs tell of the 45 years he lived in the Soviet Union, experiencing acclaim as a parachutist, imprisonment, marriage, and banishment to Siberia.

Author : Alan Parkinson
Publisher : Collins Educational
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 0007484771

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The Ice Man by Alan Parkinson Pdf

When a body was discovered by two German hikers walking in the Alps in 1991, little did they realise it had been there for over 5000 years. Who was Otzi, the Ice Man, as he has become known? What did scientists find out by examining his remains? And what further finds from the ancient past might our changing climate reveal?

Author : Rachel Lindsay
Publisher : Harlequin Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Love stories
ISBN : 037310359X

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Man of Ice by Rachel Lindsay Pdf