Polar Adventures

Author : Peter Freuchen
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781787202528

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Arctic Adventure by Peter Freuchen Pdf

Originally published in 1956, this book is a memoir by Danish explorer Peter Freuchen, a close friend and travel companion of Arctic legend Knud Rasmussen, and ended up living in Greenland for fifteen years, 800 miles from the North Pole—adopting the native ways of life, marrying an Inuit woman, and having two children along the way. Arctic Adventure is filled with tales of seal and polar bear hunts, enduring starvation, encountering people who had resorted to cannibalism, and the stirring experience of seeing the sun again after three months of winter darkness. Rich in human saga, Freuchen’s warmth, wit, and literary talent make this recollection of real-life adventure stories a stand-out. “Except for Richard E. Byrd, and despite his foreign beginnings, Freuchen was perhaps better known to more people in the United States than any other explorer of our time.”—Evelyn Stefansson, The New York Times “[A] formidable and fascinating man”—Harriet Baker, AnOther Richly illustrated throughout with maps and black-and-white photographs.

Author : Joanna Kafarowski
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459739710

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The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame by Joanna Kafarowski Pdf

Louise Arner Boyd inherited the family millions in her thirties. Expected to lead a respectable life, she instead fell under the captivating spell of the north. Over the next thirty years, she organized and led seven hazardous expeditions around Greenland and was showered with international awards.

Author : Paul Dowswell
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781409569077

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True Stories of Polar Adventures: Usborne True Stories by Paul Dowswell Pdf

A gripping collection of true stories of exploration and danger over the icy wastelands of Antarctica. Contains true life stories from the fated expedition of Captain Scott to Ernest Shackleton's epic trek across the snow to save his stranded crew.

Author : Alastair Humphreys
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780008131944

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Grand Adventures by Alastair Humphreys Pdf

‘Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap’ Geographical Adventure – something that’s new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you and how you see the world, and all you need is an open mind, bags of enthusiasm and boundless curiosity. Recommended for viewing on a colour tablet.

Author : Joanna Kafarowski
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459739727

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The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame by Joanna Kafarowski Pdf

The first comprehensive biography of Louise Arner Boyd — the intrepid American socialite who reinvented herself as the leading female polar explorer of the twentieth century. Born in the late 1880s to a gritty mining magnate who made his millions in the California gold rush and a well-bred mother descended from one of New York’s distinguished families, society beauty Louise Arner Boyd was raised during a glittering era. After inheriting a staggering family fortune, she began leading a double life. She fell under the spell of the north in the late 1920s after a sailing excursion to the Arctic Ocean. Over the next three decades, she achieved international notoriety as a rugged and audacious polar explorer while maintaining her flamboyant lifestyle as a leading society woman. Yet despite organizing, financing, and directing seven daring Arctic expeditions between 1926 and 1955, she is virtually unknown today.

Author : Percy Bolingbroke St. John
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : UOM:39015078570309

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The Arctic Crusoe, a Tale of the Polar Sea; Or, Arctic Adventures on the Sea of Ice by Percy Bolingbroke St. John Pdf

Author : Samantha Seiple
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780545562775

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Byrd & Igloo: A Polar Adventure by Samantha Seiple Pdf

From the author of GHOSTS IN THE FOG comes a story that will appeal to lovers of history, adventure, and dogs. BYRD & IGLOO will be the first narrative nonfiction book to tell the daring adventures of legendary polar explorer and aviator Richard Byrd and his lovable dog explorer, Igloo. Byrd is known for being the first to fly a plane over the North and South Poles, while Igloo is famous for being the only dog to explore both the North and South Poles. The adventures of Byrd and Igloo opened the door for science and research in the Antarctic. Featuring direct quotes from letters, diaries and interviews, newspaper clippings, expedition records, maps, charts, as well as never-before-seen photos, it will give the complete story of the explorers' journey. Though rooted in history with evidence from many museums and research centers, Byrd & Igloo will be exciting in tone, making it accessible and interesting for young readers.

Author : Frank Arthur Worsley
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393343342

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Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure by Frank Arthur Worsley Pdf

The legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of HMS Endurance. "You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. "What the ice gets," replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's unflappable leader, "the ice keeps." It did not, however, get the ship's twenty-five crew members, all of whom survived an eight-hundred-mile voyage across sea, land, and ice to South Georgia, the nearest inhabited island. First published in 1931, Endurance tells the full story of that doomed 1914-16 expedition and incredible rescue, as well as relating Worsley's further adventures fighting U-boats in the Great War, sailing the equally treacherous waters of the Arctic, and making one final (and successful) assault on the South Pole with Shackleton. It is a tale of unrelenting high adventure and a tribute to one of the most inspiring and courageous leaders of men in the history of exploration.

Author : David H. Stam,Deirdre Corcoran Stam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1605830844

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Adventures in Polar Reading by David H. Stam,Deirdre Corcoran Stam Pdf

Based in part on his own naval experience, including duty in Antarctica, and informed by extensive archival and secondary research, David Stam's book examines the printed needs of several polar expeditions, including those of Adolphus Greely in the International Polar Year 1881-83 in northernmost Canada. Stam's study also includes analysis of shipboard- and expedition-based periodicals throughout the so-called Heroic Age of exploration (ca. 1880-1921); a definitive essay on the enduring books of Ernest Shackleton's legendary journey aboard the Endurance; a parallel study of the primarily religious literature distributed as Loan Libraries of the American Seamen's Friend Society; and, finally, an account of the three libraries assembled by Richard Evelyn Byrd for the successive bases at Little America (1929-41). The volume is bookended by chapters that provide an autobiographical account of how Adventures in Polar Reading came to be written and extensive suggestions pointing the way to topics of research that Stam's methodology might enable for other scholars.

Author : Catherine Nichols
Publisher : Scholastic Incorporated
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Explorers
ISBN : 0516244655

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Polar Adventures by Catherine Nichols Pdf

Briefly discusses some of the explorers of the North and South Poles, including Robert Peary, Ernest Shackleton, Matthew Henson, and Donald Macmillan.

Author : William H. G. Kingston
Publisher : London : G. Routledge and Sons
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : OXFORD:600061681

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Arctic Adventures by William H. G. Kingston Pdf

Author : FRANK. WORSLEY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033035483

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ENDURANCE by FRANK. WORSLEY Pdf

Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher : New York : D. Appleton
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : MINN:319510019925636

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Fast in the Ice, Or, Adventures in the Polar Regions by Robert Michael Ballantyne Pdf

Author : James Raffan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781501155383

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Ice Walker by James Raffan Pdf

From bestselling author James Raffan comes an enlightening and original story about a polar bear’s precarious existence in the changing Arctic, reminiscent of John Vaillant’s The Golden Spruce. Nanurjuk, “the bear-spirited one,” is hunting for seals on Hudson Bay, where ice never lasts more than one season. For her and her young, everything is in flux. From the top of the world, Hudson Bay looks like an enormous paw print on the torso of the continent, and through a vast network of lakes and rivers, this bay connects to oceans across the globe. Here, at the heart of everything, walks Nanurjuk, or Nanu, one polar bear among the six thousand that traverse the 1.23 million square kilometers of ice and snow covering the bay. For millennia, Nanu’s ancestors have roamed this great expanse, living, evolving, and surviving alongside human beings in one of the most challenging and unforgiving habitats on earth. But that world is changing. In the Arctic’s lands and waters, oil has been extracted—and spilled. As global temperatures have risen, the sea ice that Nanu and her young need to hunt seal and fish has melted, forcing them to wait on land where the delicate balance between them and their two-legged neighbors has now shifted. This is the icescape that author and geographer James Raffan invites us to inhabit in Ice Walker. In precise and provocative prose, he brings readers inside Nanu’s world as she treks uncertainly around the heart of Hudson Bay, searching for nourishment for the children that grow inside her. She stops at nothing to protect her cubs from the dangers she can see—other bears, wolves, whales, human beings—and those she cannot. By focusing his lens on this bear family, Raffan closes the gap between humans and bears, showing us how, like the water of the Hudson Bay, our existence—and our future—is tied to Nanu’s. He asks us to consider what might be done about this fragile world before it is gone for good. Masterful, vivid, and haunting, Ice Walker is an utterly unique piece of creative nonfiction and a deeply affecting call to action.

Author : Marie Herbert
Publisher : London : Severn House
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Polar regions
ISBN : 0727803557

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Great Polar Adventures by Marie Herbert Pdf