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Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches
ISBN: 9780156032544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Every year around the globe, people cross paths with avalanches some massive, some no deeper than a pizza box with deadly results. Avalanche expert Jill Fredston stalks these so-called freaks of nature, forecasting where and when they will strike, deliberately triggering them with explosives, teaching potential victims how to stay alive, and leading rescue efforts when tragedy strikes.
In Snowstruck, Fredston draws on decades of personal experience to take avalanches out of the statistical realm and into the human one (Skiing Magazine): a skier making what may prove his... Every year around the globe, people cross paths with avalanches some massive, some no deeper than a pizza box with deadly results. Avalanche expert Ji...
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Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge
ISBN: 9780865476554 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband, Doug Fesler, in a small boat of his own, she has disappeared every summer for years, exploring the rugged shorelines of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Spitsbergen, and Norway. Carrying what they need to be self-sufficient, the two of them have battled mountainous seas and hurricane-force winds, dragged their boats across jumbles of ice, fended off grizzlies and polar bears, been serenaded by humpback whales and scrutinized by puffins, and reveled... Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husban... |
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82,19 zł |