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Author : G. Firth Scott
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752426625
Reproduction of the original: The Romance of Polar Exploration by G. Firth Scott
Author : G. Firth Scott
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547364399
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Romance of Polar Exploration" (Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the "Discovery") by G. Firth Scott. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Scott G Firth
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1318006333
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:944969033
Author : G. Firth Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1096807918
Author : David Thomas Murphy
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803232055
German Exploration of the Polar World is the exciting story of the generations of German polar explorers who braved the perils of the Arctic and Antarctic for themselves and their country. Such intrepid adventurers as Wilhelm Filchner, Erich von Drygalski, and Alfred Wegener are not as well known today as Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen, Ernest Shackleton, Robert E. Peary, or Richard E. Byrd, but their bravery and the hardships they faced were equal to those of the more famous polar explorers. In the half-century prior to World War II, the poles were the last blank spaces on the global map, and they exerted a tremendous pull on national imaginations. Under successive political regimes, the Germans threw themselves into the race for polar glory with an ardor that matched their better-known counterparts bearing English, American, and Norwegian flags. German polar explorers were driven, like their rivals, by a complex web of interlocking motivations. Personal fame, the romance of the unknown, and the advancement of science were important considerations, but public pressure, political and military concerns, and visions of immense, untapped wealth at the poles also spurred the explorers. As historian David Thomas Murphy shows, Germany's repeated encounters with the polar world left an indelible impression upon the German public, government, and scientific community. Reports on the polar landscape, flora, and fauna enhanced Germany's appreciation of the global environment. Accounts of the indigenous peoples of the Arctic, accurate or fantastic, permanently shaped German notions of culture and civilization. The final, failed attempt by the Nazis to extend German political power to the earth's ends revealed the limits of any country's ability to reshape the globe politically or militarily.
Author : Elias, E.L. (Edith L.)
Publisher : London : Harrap, repr.1930
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Antarctic regions
ISBN : OCLC:250527290
Author : George Barnett Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : OSU:32435011707650
Author : G. Barnett Smith
Publisher : Trieste Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0649695127
Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by imperfections that did not exist in the original. Imperfections could be in the form of blurred text, photographs, or missing pages. It is highly unlikely that this would occur with one of our books. Our extensive quality control ensures that the readers of Trieste Publishing's books will be delighted with their purchase. Our staff has thoroughly reviewed every page of all the books in the collection, repairing, or if necessary, rejecting titles that are not of the highest quality. This process ensures that the reader of one of Trieste Publishing's titles receives a volume that faithfully reproduces the original, and to the maximum degree possible, gives them the experience of owning the original work.We pride ourselves on not only creating a pathway to an extensive reservoir of books of the finest quality, but also providing value to every one of our readers. Generally, Trieste books are purchased singly - on demand, however they may also be purchased in bulk. Readers interested in bulk purchases are invited to contact us directly to enquire about our tailored bulk rates.
Author : Helen Putnam Van Sicklen
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1447424069
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Tim Fulford,Debbie Lee,Peter J. Kitson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521829194
Examines the massive impact of colonial exploration on British scientific and literary activity between the 1760s and 1830s.
Author : Robert Ames Bennet
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338068064
Thyra: A Romance of the Polar Pit by Robert Ames Bennet is about Lieutenant Balderson's chilly and courageous adventures through the lifeless Arctic. Excerpt: "Ice--ice on every side, north, and south, east and west, as far the eye can see--not the broad, level floes of the Arctic Circle, with here and there a majestic berg towering skyward like some gigantic crystal cathedral, but a vast stretch of ponderous floe-bergs, ridged with jagged hummocks, their broken surface covered with snow, fast turning to slush under the blaze of the six months' sun."
Author : Helen S. Wright
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547092285
The Great White North is a description of Helen S. Wright's adventures through the North Pole. Anybody would marvel at Wright's unique, female perspective and the subjective and evocative line drawings. Contents: Early Adventurers, Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Early nineteenth century, 1819-1827, cont.
Author : Kim Wheatley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317061571
Romantic writers such as Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge aspired to rise above the so-called 'age of personality,' a new culture of politicized print gossip and personal attacks. Nevertheless, Southey, Coleridge, and other Romantic-era figures such as Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Sydney Owenson, and the explorer John Ross became enmeshed in lively feuds with the major periodicals of the day, the Edinburgh Review and the Quarterly Review. Kim Wheatley focuses on feuds from the second and third decades of the nineteenth century, suggesting that by this time the vituperative rhetoric of the Edinburgh and the Quarterly had developed into what Coleridge called 'a habit of malignity.' Attending to the formal strategies of the reviewers' surprisingly creative prose, she traces how her chosen feuds take on lives of their own, branching off into other print media, including the weekly press and monthly magazines. Ultimately, Wheatley shows, these hostile exchanges incorporated literary genres and Romantic themes such as the idealized poetic self, the power of the supernatural, and the quest for the sublime. By turning episodes of print warfare into stories of transfiguration, the feuds thus unexpectedly contributed to the emergence of Romanticism.
Author : Nick Rennison
Publisher : Oldacastle Books
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843440918
An absorbing history, bringing explorers' tales vividly to life Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the men who went to Antarctica with Captain Scott, said "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been devised." Yet there has never been a shortage of volunteers willing to endure the bad times in pursuit of the glory that polar exploration sometimes brings. This compelling book tells the memorable stories of the men and women who have risked their lives by entering the white wastelands of the Arctic and the Antarctic, from the compelling tales of Scott, Shackleton, and Amundsen, to lesser known heroes such as Fridtjof Nansen and Robert Peary. This history also looks at the hold that the polar regions have often had on the imaginations of artists and writers in the last 200 years examining the paintings, films, and literature that they have inspired.
