Toward The Poles

Author : Catharine Hartley,Ying Chang
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Polar regions
ISBN : 9780743450386

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To the Poles Without a Beard by Catharine Hartley,Ying Chang Pdf

WHAT NOT TO DO WHEN VENTURING TO THE POLES (especially when you're the first British woman to try it) * Decide to take up the challange in a haze of alchohol one New Year's Eve * Crash the BBC global email system with your fundraising requests * Do no training whatsoever prior to departure, except the odd aerobics class * Pack 300 Malboro Lights into your sled * Fail to put on the requisite 3 stone to help stave off cold and hunger * Forget to buy any gloves so stop off at Snow and Rock on High St Ken for a pair on the way to the airport * Ignore finger going black with frostbite to avoid making a fuss * Get so drunk in the plane to the North Pole that Canada refuses you entry as an undesirable alien * Forget to eat or sleep for three days before setting off Catharine Hartley did all these things and still made it to both poles. TO THE POLES WITHOUT A BEARD tells her hilarious and incredible story.

Author : Ewa Lipniacka
Publisher : Oval Projects
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-02
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781908120724

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The Xenophobe's Guide to the Poles by Ewa Lipniacka Pdf

A guide to understanding the Poles that displays their true character with perception and affection.

Author : Michael Bright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780711254749

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North Pole / South Pole by Michael Bright Pdf

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!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : IND:30000089085488

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NASA Activities by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Evelyn Byrd
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814208007

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To the Pole by Richard Evelyn Byrd Pdf

While cataloging Byrd's papers in 1996, Goerler (archivist, Ohio State U.) discovered the controversial explorer's diary and notebook which he frames with maps, photographs, a chronology of Byrd's life, his 1926 North Pole navigational report, and additional readings. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Richard C. Lukas
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813143323

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Out of the Inferno by Richard C. Lukas Pdf

“Moving testimonies recount the sadism, mass murders, deportations and imprisonment which Poles suffered at the hands of Hitler’s invading army.” —Publishers Weekly Richard Lukas’s book, encompassing the wartime recollections of sixty “ordinary” Poles under Nazi occupation, constitutes a valuable contribution to a new perspective on World War II. Lukas presents gripping first-person accounts of the years 1939–1945 by Polish Christians from diverse social and economic backgrounds. Their narratives, from both oral and written sources, contribute enormously to our understanding of the totality of the Holocaust. Many of those who speak in these pages attempted, often at extreme peril, to assist Jewish friends, neighbors, and even strangers who otherwise faced certain death at the hands of the German occupiers. Some took part in the underground resistance movement. Others, isolated from the Jews’ experience and ill-informed of that horror, were understandably preoccupied with their own survival in the face of brutal condition intended ultimately to exterminate or enslave the entire Polish population. These recollections of men and women are moving testimony to the human courage of a people struggling for survival against the rule of depravity. The power of their painful witness against the inhumanities of those times is undeniable. “Lukas presents a selection of oral and written memoirs of some 60 Polish men and women who lived through the German occupation of Poland in World War II.” —Library Journal

Author : Amadeo F. Giannini
Publisher : Health Research Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 078730347X

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Worlds Beyond the Poles by Amadeo F. Giannini Pdf

1959 Physical continuity of the universe. Contents: the Changing Scene; Extrasensory Perception; Connected Universe; Modern Columbus Seeks Queen Isabella; Disclosing Southern Land Corridor into the Heavens Above; Stratosphere Revelations; Journey.

Author : Thomas Elliott Snyder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Forest insects
ISBN : HARVARD:32044107249799

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Damage to Chestnut Telephone and Telegraph Poles by Wood-boring Insects by Thomas Elliott Snyder Pdf

Author : Marshall B. Gardner
Publisher : Health Research Books
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0787311928

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The Journey to the Earth's Interior by Marshall B. Gardner Pdf

1913 or Have the Poles Really Been Discovered. for those interested in flying saucer books and especially those who are familiar with the works of Dr. Raymond Bernard. Contents: the Nebula & Our Theory; Introductory; Mars; Early Polar Exploration;.

Author : Cold War International History Project
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Berlin (Germany)
ISBN : WISC:89072310691

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Cold War Flashpoints by Cold War International History Project Pdf

Featuring new evidence on: the Polish Crisis 1980-1981, Poland in the early Cold War, the Sino-American opening, the Korean War, the Berlin Crisis 1958-1962.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Curriculum planning
ISBN : UIUC:30112072349027

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Inservice Training Booklet for Developing the Curriculum by Anonim Pdf

Author : S.A. Iqbal,Y. Mido
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : 8171412653

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Chemistry Of Air & Air Pollution by S.A. Iqbal,Y. Mido Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4012096

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Special Publication by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward J. Larson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062564511

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To the Edges of the Earth by Edward J. Larson Pdf

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a "suspenseful" (WSJ) and "adrenaline-fueled" (Outside) entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time, when three expeditions simultaneously raced to the top, bottom, and heights of the world. As 1909 dawned, the greatest jewels of exploration—set at the world’s frozen extremes—lay unclaimed: the North and South Poles and the so-called “Third Pole,” the pole of altitude, located in unexplored heights of the Himalaya. Before the calendar turned, three expeditions had faced death, mutiny, and the harshest conditions on the planet to plant flags at the furthest edges of the Earth. In the course of one extraordinary year, Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson were hailed worldwide at the discovers of the North Pole; Britain’s Ernest Shackleton had set a new geographic “Furthest South” record, while his expedition mate, Australian Douglas Mawson, had reached the Magnetic South Pole; and at the roof of the world, Italy’s Duke of the Abruzzi had attained an altitude record that would stand for a generation, the result of the first major mountaineering expedition to the Himalaya's eastern Karakoram, where the daring aristocrat attempted K2 and established the standard route up the most notorious mountain on the planet. Based on extensive archival and on-the-ground research, Edward J. Larson weaves these narratives into one thrilling adventure story. Larson, author of the acclaimed polar history Empire of Ice, draws on his own voyages to the Himalaya, the arctic, and the ice sheets of the Antarctic, where he himself reached the South Pole and lived in Shackleton’s Cape Royds hut as a fellow in the National Science Foundations’ Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. These three legendary expeditions, overlapping in time, danger, and stakes, were glorified upon their return, their leaders celebrated as the preeminent heroes of their day. Stripping away the myth, Larson, a master historian, illuminates one of the great, overlooked tales of exploration, revealing the extraordinary human achievement at the heart of these journeys.

Author : Falk Huettmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9784431540069

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Protection of the Three Poles by Falk Huettmann Pdf

The Arctic, the Antarctic, and the Hindu Kush-Himalayas form a trio of terrains sometimes called “the three poles”. Mainly composed of rock, snow, and ice, these precious regions, which are home to many unique species such as the polar bear, the emperor penguin, and the snow leopard, contain the primary water resource of this planet and directly shape our climate. This book presents a first-ever global assessment and progressive review of the three poles and demonstrates the urgent need for their protection. Sins of the past have irrevocably harmed and threatened many of the unique qualities of these regions, and the future looks bleak with the global population forecast to reach 9 billion by 2060, and with climate change on the rise. Presented here is a wide-reaching and coherent overview of the three poles’ biodiversity, habitats, and ongoing destruction. Failed protection and social targets set by the United Nations and other bodies are exposed while economic growth, unconstrained or inappropriate development, and urban sprawl are promoted unabated. Polar regions play a major role in the global agenda as they are rich in oil and other resources, marking them for contamination, overfishing, and further degradation. Tourism in the Antarctic has benefited from enlightened self-regulation, but there are signs that this is changing, too. The chapters of this book are written by experts in their fields, and their evidence leaves no doubt that we already live beyond our carrying capacity on a finite but decaying space. A global protection role model and several outlook scenarios are proposed to help set in motion polar protection priorities that are actually valid. Humanity has demonstrated through international treaties such as the Antarctic Treaty and the Madrid Protocol that we can put the interests of the planet as a whole first. This must become the norm, not the exception.