Writer and Antarctic explorer Neider tells of his third trip to the frozen continent, describing the international stations there and the goals they are working toward. Neider also tours the Antarctic landscape, observing the geography and wildlife and evoking it in detail. Devoting scrutiny to the international treaties that protect the continent politically and environmentally, Neider reveals how important those treaties are. Also included in this work are interviews with Antarctic pioneers Si...
Der Hinkende Teufel Im Ostindischen Archipel Oder Memoiren Eines Wiener Arztes
by Josef Bechtinger
Buried in Ice (Time Quest S.) (Time Quest Book)
by Owen Beattie and John Geiger
The fifth book in the "Time Quest" series. Each "Time Quest" book focuses on a recent historical discovery. In words and pictures, the explorer, scientist or archaeologist responsible for the discovery describes their achievement and takes the reader back to relive the story behind it. This is the story of how a 140-year-old mystery - that of the fate of the men on Sir John Franklin's expedition to find the Northwest passage in 1845 - was solved. Anthropologist Dr Owen Beattie recounts first-han...
'This is suicide!' Manuel screamed frantically. So begins an amazing true story of a journey to Antarctica in a 27-foot sailing boat. After travelling through South America to Tierra del Fuego, the only continent David had never visited beckoned to him across treacherous waters. Ships booked for scientific expeditions wouldn't take him, and tourist cruises didn't appeal. Then he saw a little boat in the harbour, its name hand-painted in red on the hull: Berserk. Together with a 'crazy Viking' an...
Chris Hill undertook a unique one-man journey that took him through eight Arctic countries over a period of two years. The expedition began in Alaska, USA, and ended one dark polar night in the Russian Arctic. He covered over 65,000 miles using whatever transport was available, from aeroplanes to skidoos. On his travels he met Eskimos (Inuit), Lapps (Saami), North American Native peoples and many Russian ethnic groups - people from all walks of life. He was struck by the tremendous warmth and ho...
Beneath the Shadow (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction)
by Justin Gardiner
In February 2010, with the help of a friend who works as a photographer with a National Geographic-sponsored cruise line, Justin Gardiner boarded a ship bound for Antarctica. A stowaway of sorts, Gardiner used his experiences on this voyage as the narrative backdrop for Beneath the Shadow, a compelling firsthand account that breathes new life into the nineteenth-century journals of Antarctic explorers such as Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, and Captain Roald Amundsen....
Reise um die Erde durch Nord-Asien und die beiden Oceane in den Jahren 1828 bis 1830
by Adolph Erman
The Heart of the Antarctic (Annotated, Large Print) (Sastrugi Press Classics)
by Ernest Shackleton
This stunningly beautiful and informative book celebrates the Arctic, one of the last great wildernesses on the planet; a place where animals have survived for thousands of years protected only by fur and feathers. Humans also survive in the Arctic, but only those who have adjusted to the climate over millennia and who clad themselves in the skins of the animals they hunt. For the casual visitor, this is a place where survival for any extended period requires taking advantage of the best that mo...