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North Pole / South Pole

Michael Bright
North Pole South Pole Book PDF

Author : Michael Bright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780711254749

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Fully-illustrated and with a fun and innovative flip-book format, the book provides the perfect way to explore and compare the extreme environments of the two Poles. Take a trip to the ends of the earth and discover the extreme environments of the North and South Poles. Find out which animals live where, what the weather and climate is like and the effect global warming is having. Beginning with the North Pole, the book introduces the geography and climate of the Arctic. Readers will discover how climate change is affecting sea ice and why multi-year ice is so important to walruses and polar bears. Find out what ice floes are and what lives under the ice. The many uses of the Arctic are explained, from the home it provides to whale hunters to the rocket and missile test sites it houses. And then flip the book over and you arrive in the South Pole... The famous race to reach the pole in 1911 is retold and readers will discover why the orca is the ultimate polar predator. The huge tabular icebergs, sub-glacial lakes, and ice chimneys of the Antarctic are brought to life in all their impressive glory, not to mention the sea spiders, 'death star' starfish and other undersea giants!

The North Pole and the South Pole

Pierre Winters
The North Pole and the South Pole Book PDF

Author : Pierre Winters
Publisher : Clavis
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 1605372064

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Want to Know books are informative picture books that answer the questions of young children. Some subjects are familiar to them, others are less familiar. The books deal with the world and the environment around us, with our past and present. In a playful and clever way, these books tell children what they want to know. Do you want to know everything about the North and the South Poles? This book tells you what they are, and what they look like. You ll find out about the animals and people who live there, and what they do. The book also contains a fun activity, a verse, a big foldout page and a mini-quiz, so that you can become a real expert. An informative, interactive picture book for children ages 5 and up about the WOW elements of the world, the North and South Poles."

The South Pole

Roald Amundsen
The South Pole Book PDF

Author : Roald Amundsen
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547671466

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The South Pole is a book by Roald Amundsen and it represents an interesting first-hand account of the Norwegian expedition's successful attempt to reach the South Pole in 1911. Amundsen spends a great deal of time talking about logistics and placing of depots in preparation for his polar attempt all the way from the preparation leading up to the initial sea voyage, the voyage itself and then the establishing of a camp at the Antarctic. Although they were lucky with the weather, and Amundsen attributed the success of the expedition to "good luck", it is obvious that the Norwegian expedition was well prepared and ready for the troubles ahead; the equipment, the sledges with well-trained dogs, the supply depots with seal meat at regular intervals along the route, the sunglasses to avoid snow blindness; it was all thought of in advance.

Race for the South Pole

Roland Huntford
Race for the South Pole Book PDF

Author : Roland Huntford
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441149282

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In 1910 Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica, each from his own starting point, and the epic race for the South Pole was on. For the first time Scott's unedited diaries run alongside those of both Amundsen and Olav Bjaaland, never before translated into English. Cutting through the welter of controversy to the events at the heart of the story, Huntford weaves the narrative from the protagonists' accounts of their own fate. What emerges is a whole new understanding of what really happened on the ice and the definitive account of the Race for the South Pole.

South Pole Station

Ashley Shelby
South Pole Station Book PDF

Author : Ashley Shelby
Publisher : Picador
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250112859

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Winner of the Lascaux Prize in Fiction A warmhearted comedy of errors set in the world’s harshest place, Ashley Shelby's South Pole Station is a wry and witty debut novel about the courage it takes to band together when everything around you falls apart. Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority? How many alcoholic drinks to you consume a week? Would you rather be a florist or a truck driver? These are some of the questions that determine if you have what it takes to survive at South Pole Station, a place with an average temperature of -54°F and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling has just answered five hundred of them. Her results indicate she is abnormal enough for Polar life. Cooper’s not sure if this is an achievement, but she knows she has nothing to lose. Unmoored by a recent family tragedy, she’s adrift at thirty and—despite her early promise as a painter—on the verge of sinking her career. So she accepts her place in the National Science Foundation’s Artists & Writers Program and flees to Antarctica, where she encounters a group of misfits motivated by desires as ambiguous as her own. The only thing the Polies have in common is the conviction that they don’t belong anywhere else. Then a fringe scientist arrives, claiming climate change is a hoax. His presence will rattle this already-imbalanced community, bringing Cooper and the Polies to the center of a global controversy and threatening the ancient ice chip they call home.

Nothing Ever Happens at the South Pole

Stan Berenstain,Jan Berenstain
Nothing Ever Happens at the South Pole Book PDF

Author : Stan Berenstain,Jan Berenstain
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0062075322

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Nothing Ever Happens at the South Pole by Stan Berenstain,Jan Berenstain Pdf

There's a lot going on at the South Pole! There are slippery slopes and frozen floes and wild animals all around. But when one penguin goes looking for adventure, he doesn't see anything exciting at all going on. Could it be he's just not looking closely enough? From the creators of the Berenstain Bears comes a storybook filled with adventure for all.

South Pole

Elizabeth Leane
South Pole Book PDF

Author : Elizabeth Leane
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780236292

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As one of two points where the Earth’s axis meets its surface, the South Pole should be a precisely defined place. But as Elizabeth Leane shows in this book, conceptually it is a place of paradoxes. An invisible spot on a high, featureless ice plateau, the Pole has no obvious material value, yet it is a highly sought-after location, and reaching it on foot is one of the most extreme adventures an explorer can undertake. The Pole is, as Leane shows, a deeply imagined place, and a place of politics, where a series of national claims converge. Leane details the important challenges that the South Pole poses to humanity, asking what it can teach us about ourselves and our relationship with our planet. She examines its allure for explorers such as Robert F. Scott and Roald Amundsen, not to mention the myriad writers and artists who have attempted to capture its strange, inhospitable blankness. She considers the Pole’s advantages for climatologists and other scientists as well as the absurdities and banalities of human interaction with this place. Ranging from the present all the way back to the ancient Greeks, she offers a fascinating—and lavishly illustrated—story about one of the strangest and most important places on Earth.

North Pole, South Pole

Gillian Turner
North Pole South Pole Book PDF

Author : Gillian Turner
Publisher : The Experiment
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781615191321

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This “fantastic story” of one of physics’ great riddles takes us through centuries of scientific history (Simon Lamb, author of Devil in the Mountain). Why do compass needles point north—but not quite north? What guides the migration of birds, whales, and fish across the world’s oceans? How is Earth able to sustain life under an onslaught of solar wind and cosmic radiation? For centuries, the world’s great scientists have grappled with these questions, all rooted in the same phenomenon: Earth’s magnetism. Over two thousand years after the invention of the compass, Einstein called the source of Earth’s magnetic field one of greatest unsolved mysteries of physics. Here, for the first time, is the complete history of the quest to understand the planet’s attractive pull—from the ancient Greeks’ fascination with lodestone to the geological discovery that the North Pole has not always been in the North—and to the astonishing modern conclusions that finally revealed the true source. Richly illustrated and skillfully told, North Pole, South Pole unfolds the human story behind the science: that of the inquisitive, persevering, and often dissenting thinkers who unlocked the secrets at our planet’s core. “In recent years, many very good books for interested non-scientists have been published: Richard Dawkins’s Climbing Mount Improbable and The Ancestor’s Tale, Stephen Jay Gould’s The Lying Stones of Marrakech, and Dava Sobel’s Longitude and The Planets, to name some of them. North Pole, South Pole . . . is a worthy addition to that list . . . Turner has a great story to tell, and she tells it well.” —The Press (New Zealand)

The Adventures of a South Pole Pig

Chris Kurtz
The Adventures of a South Pole Pig Book PDF

Author : Chris Kurtz
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547634555

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Flora the pig was born for adventure: "If it's unexplored and needs to get dug up, call me. I'm your pig," she says. The day Flora spots a team of sled dogs is the day she sets her heart on becoming a sled pig. Before she knows it, she's on board a ship to Antarctica for the most exhilarating--and dangerous--adventure of her life. This poignant novel of a purposeful pig is sure to become a favorite with any young readers who have ever dreamed of exploring the great beyond.

The South Pole

Roald Amundsen
The South Pole Book PDF

Author : Roald Amundsen
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9782322409365

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The South Pole by Roald Amundsen Pdf

Captain Roald Amundsen was the leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole, on December 14, 1911. His account was originally published as two volumes in 1913. The difficulties Amundsen and his team have endured are well chronicled here. The book contains maps, and charts.

South Pole

Christine Dell'Amore
South Pole Book PDF

Author : Christine Dell'Amore
Publisher : Exclusive Selection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1614280118

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Although it's a piece of history learned by every British student, the Terra Nova Expedition of 1910-1913 remains an epic story unknown to many. In this ultimate showing of life and boundless bravery, Robert F. Scott and his five-man team battled the elements--traveling through subzero temperatures with motor sledges and ponies--in the hope of being the first to reach this uninhabited territory. Arriving at the South Pole on January 18, 1913, the adventurers were greeted by their worst nightmare: a Norwegian flag. Disheartened and badly frostbitten, they trudged back toward their boat, only to die just eleven miles from the next depot. This well-documented journey is starkly relived in this waterproof, over-sized edition featuring a historic collection of stunning black-and-white photography on waterproof paper, and excerpts from Scott's harrowing diary uniquely crafted in calligraphy. Limited edition of 150 numbered copies

South Pole

Gareth Wood,Eric Jamieson
South Pole Book PDF

Author : Gareth Wood,Eric Jamieson
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0920663486

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South Pole by Gareth Wood,Eric Jamieson Pdf

Canadian Gareth Wood along with two Englishmen successfully walked across Antarctica to the South Pole. Each man hauled a sledge loaded with 350 pounds of survival gear 900 miles through the unimaginable cold of the empty, hostile continent. Unlike Robert F Scott's 1911-12 Antarctica expedition, this trek to the bottom of the world ended with success and survival. Roger Mear, Robert Swan, and Gareth Wood overcame 9,000 feet of altitude and 900 miles of frozen barriers en route to the South Pole without dogs, radios, mechanical support, or caches of food. In tribute to their American predecessor, they used Scott's log. Their epic struggle tested these self-assured individuals and taught them the value of co-operation and teamwork in the face of disaster. For Gareth Wood, the day they finally reached the Pole was more the beginning of a new journey than the end of his quest. The ship that was to have collected the team was crushed in the ice. Not only did Wood survive another year in the Antarctic, but he also lived to describe the horrific attack by a savage leopard seal.

Good Dogs Don't Make It to the South Pole

Hans-Olav Thyvold
Good Dogs Don t Make It to the South Pole Book PDF

Author : Hans-Olav Thyvold
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062981677

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Good Dogs Don't Make It to the South Pole by Hans-Olav Thyvold Pdf

Told through the eyes of a very grumpy yet lovable mutt, a funny and touching tale of aging, death, friendship, and life that proves sometimes a dog's story is the most human of all. Tassen has always been a one-man dog. When his human companion, Major Thorkildsen, dies, Tassen and Mrs. Thorkildsen are left alone. Tassen mourns Major by eating too many treats, and Mrs. T by drinking too much. But the two unexpectedly find common ground in researching Roald Amundsen’s expedition to the South Pole led by a pack of intrepid dogs. But the quiet days Tassen and Mrs. T spend together at the library researching the explorer’s arctic adventure are disrupted by the arrival of her son and daughter in-law. Eager to move in to the Major’s spacious house, they plan to send Mrs. T to a nursing home. As he contemplates his own fate, Tassen shudders to think what might happen to him! Yet Tassen and Mrs. T aren’t about to give up. Inspired by Roald Amundsen and his dogs, this unlikely pair are ready to take on anything life throws at them. Good Dogs Don’t Make It to the South Pole is a darkly comedic and whimsical portrayal of aging and death told through a dog’s friendship with an elderly woman. Translated from the Norwegian by Marie Otsby

The South Pole

Anthony Brandt
The South Pole Book PDF

Author : Anthony Brandt
Publisher : National Geographic
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : UCSD:31822033465519

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The words of the great explorers of Antarctica--James Cook, Ernest Shackleton, Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen and Richard Byrd--are gathered together in this gripping narrative history of the race to reach the South Pole.

To the South Pole

Valerie Bodden
To the South Pole Book PDF

Author : Valerie Bodden
Publisher : Great Expeditions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1608180697

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"A history of Roald Amundsen's successful 1911 trip to the South Pole, detailing the challenges encountered, the individuals involved, the discoveries made, and how the expedition left its mark upon the world"--Provided by publisher.