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In 1845, Sir John Franklin and his men set out to "penetrate the icy fastness of the north, and to circumnavigate America." And then they disappeared. The truth about what happened to Franklin's ill-fated Arctic expedition was shrouded in mystery for more than a century. Then, in 1984, Owen Beattie and his team exhumed two crew members from a burial site in the North for forensic evidence, to shocking results. But the most startling discovery didn't come until 2014, when a team commissioned by the Canadian government uncovered one of the lost ships: Erebus.

The Franklin expedition was not alone in suffering early and unexplained deaths. This title makes the case that this illness was due to the crews' overwhelming reliance on a new technology, namely tinned foods.

Kiedy arktyczna przygoda zamienia się w koszmarNa zawsze w lodzie to pełna dramatyzmu opowieść o zorganizowanej w 1845 roku brytyjskiej ekspedycji pod dowództwem sir Johna Franklina. Jej celem było odkrycie Przejścia Północno-Zachodniego, czyli morskiej drogi z Europy do Azji, wiodącej przez ekstremalnie niegościnny Ocean Arktyczny. Oba statki podróżników, Terror i Erebus, zniknęły bez śladu, a cała wyprawa zakończyła się gehenną i śmiercią wszystkich jej uczestników. W ślad za nimi ruszyły misje ratunkowe, a wiele lat później kolejneekspedycje mające odkryć...

Discover how you can build an amazing variety of structures using little more than the earth beneath your feet. Earthbag building is revolutionizing how people around the world are thinking about ways of providing shelter, both temporary and permanent. Such buildings can be remarkably durable and resistant to earthquakes, floods, fires and even bullets. Kelly Hart describes the basics of how to build this way, provides a history of the evolving technology and delves into detailed descriptions of the many different earthbag projects that he has been involved with over nearly two decades. A...