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Secrets of Polar Travel (Classic Reprint) by Robert E. Peary Pdf
Excerpt from Secrets of Polar Travel In my book "The North Pole" appeared a brief resume, or synopsis, of my system of arctic exploration, which was the evolution of years of continuous practical work and experience in extreme high latitudes, wherein everything that could be thought of in the way of perfecting arctic methods and equipment was worked out. Ideas that in the mind or on paper appeared promising were tested relentlessly under the most hostile conditions. Those that failed under the test were abandoned, and those that gave evidence of containing some meat were perfected, until at last the entire subject of perfected equipment and methods, combined with the thorough knowledge of all conditions to be encountered gained through years of experience, compelled success. This was the resume: The so-called "Peary System" is too complex to be covered in a paragraph, and involves too many technical details to be outlined fully in any popular narrative. But the main points of it are about as follows: To drive a ship through the ice to the farthest possible northern land base from which she can be driven back again the following year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
"Secrets of Polar Travel" by Robert E. Peary is and expansion of the Peary system of Arctic exploration which appeared originally in "The North Pole". Peary was a prolific explorer who is one of the few people to brave the frigid and unforgiving arctic. Even today, very few people will ever get the chance to travel there and this book provides a way to live the experience second-hand.
Excerpt from The Last Secrets: The Final Mysteries of Exploration The first two decades of the twentieth century will rank as a most distinguished era in the history of exploration, for during them many of the great geographical riddles of the world have been solved. This book contains a record of some of the main achievements. What Nansen said of Polar exploration is true of all exploration; its story is a "mighty manifestation of the power of the Unknown over the mind of man." The Unknown, happily, will be always with us, for there are infinite secrets in a blade of grass, and an eddy of wind, and a grain of dust, and human knowledge will never attain that finality when the sense of wonder shall cease. But to the ordinary man there is an appeal in large, bold, and obvious conundrums, which is lacking in the minutioe of research. Thousands of square miles of the globe still await surveying and mapping, but most of the exploration of the future will be the elucidation of details. The main lines of the earth's architecture have been determined, and the task is now one of amplifying our knowledge of the groyning and buttresses and stone-work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
During the long twentieth century, explorers went in unprecedented numbers to the hottest, coldest, and highest points on the globe. Taking us from the Himalaya to Antarctica and beyond, Higher and Colder presents the first history of extreme physiology, the study of the human body at its physical limits. Each chapter explores a seminal question in the history of science, while also showing how the apparently exotic locations and experiments contributed to broader political and social shifts in twentieth-century scientific thinking. Unlike most books on modern biomedicine, Higher and Colder focuses on fieldwork, expeditions, and exploration, and in doing so provides a welcome alternative to laboratory-dominated accounts of the history of modern life sciences. Though centered on male-dominated practices—science and exploration—it recovers the stories of women’s contributions that were sometimes accidentally, and sometimes deliberately, erased. Engaging and provocative, this book is a history of the scientists and physiologists who face challenges that are physically demanding, frequently dangerous, and sometimes fatal, in the interest of advancing modern science and pushing the boundaries of human ability.
Arctic and Antarctic - The Technique of Polar Travel by Colin Bertram Pdf
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The gripping true story of how Briton Tom Avery went with three men, one woman and sixteen dogs to the North Pole in just under thirty-seven days, in doing so breaking the world record and solving one of the great mysteries of polar exploration. Nearly 100 years after Robert Peary told the world that he had reached the North Pole for the very first time, and was widely disbelieved, explorer Tom Avery was poring over documentation related to his expedition. Peary's claim had been derided because people just didn't belive the journey could have been done so quickly. Avery, however, was convinced that he had been telling the truth. Despite the fact that no subsequent expedition had ever come close to matching Peary's time, Avery decided to recreate the journey. Navigating treacherous pressure ridges, deadly channels of open water, bitterly cold temperatures, and travelling just as Peary did with dog teams and replica wooden sleds bound together with cord. Avery and his team were to cover the 413 nautical miles to the North Pole in just thirty-six days and twenty-two hours, setting a new world record and reaching the Pole some four hours faster then Peary. Weaving the fascinating history of Arctic exploration with thrilling extreme adventure, To the End of the Earth is Avery's story of how he and his team risked their lives to solve polar exploration's greatest mystery.
Tracking the Franklin Expedition of 1845 by Stephen Zorn Pdf
The Franklin Northwest Passage Expedition of 1845 is perhaps the greatest disaster in the history of exploration--all 129 men vanished, as did the expedition's two ships, HMS Erebus and Terror. Over the next 150 years, searchers found bones, clothing and a variety of relics. Inuit narratives provided some of the details of what happened to the frozen, starving sailors after they deserted their ice-locked ships in 1848. Then, in 2014 and 2016, Canadian researchers found the sunken wrecks, not far from the bleak, windswept King William Island in the Arctic. At last, the mystery of the Franklin Expedition would be solved. Or would it? This book pulls together the various searchers' discoveries; the many recent scientific studies that shed light on when, how and why the men died (and whether, in extremis, they ate each other); and illuminates what we know, and what we don't and may never know, about the fate of the expedition.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service Trilogy (Spy Classics Series) by Ian Fleming Pdf
"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" – Ernst Stavro Blofeld is hiding in Switzerland to complete what he couldn't before. Will Bond's attacks on his centre go unpunished? What will the evil super villian do next? "You Only Live Twice" – After the death of his wife Bond loses his steam as a No. 1 secret agent. Sent on a mission in Japan, Bond comes face to face with Blofeld again... "The Man with the Golden Gun" – Bond presumed dead after his last mission in Japan returns to England via the Soviet Union, where he had been brainwashed to attempt to assassinate his superior, M. Ian Fleming (1908–1964) was an English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. James Bond is a British Secret Service agent and often referred to by his code name, 007.
Biographical Dictionary of Explorers by Alan Wexler,Jon Cunningham Pdf
An informative, fascinating resource suitable for students, researchers, and general readers, this biographical dictionary is a "who was who" of world and space explorers, giving readers a sense of the human drama—the achievements and the challenges—that those who go where few or none have gone before must face. The explorers covered include Jacques Cousteau, Sir Vivian Fuchs, John Glenn Jr., Aleksei Leonov, Annie Peck, Valentina Tereshkova, and many more.
"Arktos is the first book ever written on the archetype of the Poles: celestial and terrestrial, North and South. It is a hair-raising voyage through cosmology, occultism and conspiracy theory leads to startling revelations about the secrets of the Poles. The author investigates legends of a Golden Age, which some claim ended in a prehistoric catastrophe, a shift in the earth's axis. This is examined in the light of the latest geological theories, as are predictions of a coming pole-shift. The perennial fascination of these ideas is shown to be part of a "polar tradition" of hidden wisdom. There are many recorded tales of an ancient race said to have lived in the Arctic regions, which later spread through the Northern Hemisphere. This supposedly "Aryan Race" entered the pantheon of Nazi Germany, with dreadful consequences. The author examines the origins of modern neo-Nazi ideology, its "polar" inspiration, and its links with other arcana, including the survival of Hitler, German bases in Antarctica, UFOS, the Hollow Earth, and the hidden kingdoms of Agartha and Shambhala. However, "Arktos" differs from most writings on these subjects in its responsible and scholarly treatment, and its extensive use of foreign-language sources."--Provided by publisher.
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Author : Jules Verne,Charles Dickens,Mark Twain,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Oscar Wilde,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,John Buchan,Anna Katharine Green,Bram Stoker,Charlotte Brontë,Anne Brontë,Emily Brontë,Arthur Conan Doyle,Frances Hodgson Burnett,Joseph Conrad,Algernon Blackwood,Guy de Maupassant,Ernest Bramah,Walter Scott,Thomas Hardy,Mary Roberts Rinehart,Daniel Defoe,Arthur Morrison,Agatha Christie,Marie Belloc Lowndes,Sax Rohmer,Alexandre Dumas,Washington Irving,Maurice Leblanc,Erskine Childers,Gaston Leroux,Wilkie Collins,Earl Derr Biggers,Marcel Allain,Richard Marsh,H. G. Wells,E. Phillips Oppenheim,J. S. Fletcher,R. Austin Freeman,E. W. Hornung,G. K. Chesterton,A. A. Milne,D. H. Lawrence,E. C. Bentley,H. P. Lovecraft,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Dorothy L. Sayers,Anton Chekhov,Robert William Chambers,Sheridan Le Fanu,Nikolai Gogol,Émile Gaboriau,Annie Haynes,Sapper,S. S. Van Dine Publisher : Good Press Page : 23933 pages File Size : 54,9 Mb Release : 2023-12-26 Category : Fiction ISBN : EAN:8596547790426
101 Mystery & Detective Classics You Should Read Before You Die by Jules Verne,Charles Dickens,Mark Twain,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Oscar Wilde,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,John Buchan,Anna Katharine Green,Bram Stoker,Charlotte Brontë,Anne Brontë,Emily Brontë,Arthur Conan Doyle,Frances Hodgson Burnett,Joseph Conrad,Algernon Blackwood,Guy de Maupassant,Ernest Bramah,Walter Scott,Thomas Hardy,Mary Roberts Rinehart,Daniel Defoe,Arthur Morrison,Agatha Christie,Marie Belloc Lowndes,Sax Rohmer,Alexandre Dumas,Washington Irving,Maurice Leblanc,Erskine Childers,Gaston Leroux,Wilkie Collins,Earl Derr Biggers,Marcel Allain,Richard Marsh,H. G. Wells,E. Phillips Oppenheim,J. S. Fletcher,R. Austin Freeman,E. W. Hornung,G. K. Chesterton,A. A. Milne,D. H. Lawrence,E. C. Bentley,H. P. Lovecraft,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Dorothy L. Sayers,Anton Chekhov,Robert William Chambers,Sheridan Le Fanu,Nikolai Gogol,Émile Gaboriau,Annie Haynes,Sapper,S. S. Van Dine Pdf
This collection includes the great masterpieces of thriller and mystery every fan of the genre should experience: Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Murder on the Links The Secret Adversary The Man in the Brown Suit The Secret of Chimneys The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Masque of the Red Death The Fall of the House of Usher The Tell-Tale Heart The Cask of Amontillado The Purloined Letter Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet The Sign of Four The Valley of Fear The Hound of the Baskervilles Sherlock Holmes Stories G. K. Chesterton: Father Brown Mysteries The Man Who Knew Too Much The Man Who Was Thursday Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White The Moonstone Charles Dickens: Bleak House Great Expectations The Mystery of Edwin Drood Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Tenant of Wildfel Hall (Anne Brontë) The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) Nostromo (Joseph Conrad) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) The Mysterious Island (Jules Verne) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain) Tom Sawyer, Detective (Mark Twain) The Turn of the Screw (Henry James) The Wings of the Dove (Henry James) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) The Double (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) The Shooting Party (Anton Chekhov) The Mysterious Portrait (Nikolai Gogol) Guy Mannering (Walter Scott) Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe) The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) The Plumed Serpent (D. H. Lawrence) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) The Invisible Man (H. G. Wells) The Four Just Men (Edgar Wallace) The Clue of the Twisted Candle (Edgar Wallace) The Red Thumb Mark (R. Austin Freeman) The Leavenworth Case (Anna Katharine Green) That Affair Next Door (Anna Katharine Green) The Bat (Mary Roberts Rinehart)
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (James Bond Classic) – Mystery & Espionage Series by Ian Fleming Pdf
This carefully crafted ebook: "YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (James Bond Classic) – Mystery & Espionage Series" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Excerpt: "Bond took his usual place across the desk from M.'s tall-armed chair. He noticed that there was no file on the expanse of red leather in front of the chair. And the In and Out baskets were both empty. Suddenly he felt really bad about everything – about letting M. down, letting the Service down, letting himself down . . ." "You Only Live Twice" - After the death of his wife Bond loses his steam as a No. 1 secret agent. Sent on a mission in Japan, Bond comes face to face with his arch nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld again... Ian Fleming (1908–1964) was an English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. James Bond is a British Secret Service agent and often referred to by his code name, 007.
Conquering the Arctic Ice (Classic Reprint) by Ejnar Mikkelsen Pdf
Excerpt from Conquering the Arctic Ice Young and enthusiastic, we were entirely devoted to our work, and made up our minds that we would organize an expedition later on, with ourselves as joint commanders. The Baldwin Expedition returned, and, in spite of its failure, in spite Of the many disagreeable hours which were still fresh in our memories, we were nevertheless determined to take up any Arctic project which promised sufficient results, Scientific and otherwise, to justify the work, the money and the time that we should be forced to expend upon it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
