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The Worst Journey in the World
ISBN: 9780143039389 / Angielski / Miękka / 573 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A firsthand account of Scott's disastrous Antarctic expedition The Worst Journey in the World recounts Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrard--the youngest member of Scott's team and one of three men to make and survive the notorious Winter Journey--draws on his firsthand experiences as well as the diaries of his compatriots to create a stirring and detailed account of Scott's legendary expedition. Cherry himself would be among the search party that discovered the corpses of Scott and his men, who had long since perished from...
A firsthand account of Scott's disastrous Antarctic expedition The Worst Journey in the World recounts Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fat...
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73,06 zł |
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The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic World
ISBN: 9780226500898 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Arctic of towering icebergs and midnight sun, of flaming auroras and endless winter nights, has long provoked flights of the imagination. Now, in "The Last Imaginary Place," renowned archeologist Robert McGhee lifts the veil to reveal the true Arctic world. Based on thirty years of work with native peoples of the Arctic and travel in the region, McGhee s account dispels notions of the frozen land as an exotic, remote world that exists apart from civilization. The Arctic of towering icebergs and midnight sun, of flaming auroras and endless winter nights, has long provoked flights of the imagination. Now, ... |
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73,06 zł |
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Voyages of Delusion: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
ISBN: 9780300098662 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The eighteenth century--the Age of Reason--was characterized by determined attempts by philosophers, scientists, and political theorists to dispel myth, superstition, and ignorance. But the Age of Reason also witnessed some of the most irrational and vainglorious attempts by sailors and speculators to find a navigable Northwest Passage that would lead through the icy seas of the Arctic from Hudson Bay to the wealth of the Pacific Ocean. Lured by the promise of fame and riches, men endured paralyzing cold, malnutrition, and terrifying storms. Many lives and fortunes were lost in the quest for...
The eighteenth century--the Age of Reason--was characterized by determined attempts by philosophers, scientists, and political theorists to dispel myt...
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438,61 zł |
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Great World War II Battles in the Arctic
ISBN: 9780313308925 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is the compelling story of the most exciting and decisive battles fought under harsh Arctic conditions during the Second World War. Each battle is described in detail, with discussions of the various weapons and strategies that led to victory or defeat, and an analysis of how the battle affected the overall course of the war. The failure of early attempts to supply the Soviets with vital mat DEGREESD'eriel would eventually give rise to tensions among the Allies that would continue long after the end of the war, and would ultimately lead to the Cold War. Despite the fears of many men... This is the compelling story of the most exciting and decisive battles fought under harsh Arctic conditions during the Second World War. Each battl... |
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489,01 zł |
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Mod Lib : Farthest North
ISBN: 9780375754722 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1893, Fridjtof Nansen set sail in the Fram, a ship specially designed and built to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel with the sea's drift closer to the North Pole than anyone had ever gone before. Experts said such a ship couldn't be built and that the voyage was tantamount to suicide. This brilliant first-person account, originally published in 1897, marks the beginning of the modern age of exploration. Nansen vividly describes the dangerous voyage and his 15-month-long dash to the North Pole by sledge. Farthest North is an...
In 1893, Fridjtof Nansen set sail in the Fram, a ship specially designed and built to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing ...
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109,06 zł |
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Shackleton's Boat Journey
ISBN: 9780393318647 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Frank A. Worsley was the captain of the H.M.S. Endurance, the ship used by the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. On its way to the Antarctic continent the Endurance became trapped and then crushed by ice, and the ship's party of twenty-eight drifted on an ice floe for five months. Finally reaching an uninhabited island, Shackleton, Worsley, and four others sailed eight hundred miles in a small boat to the island of South Georgia, an astounding feat of navigation and courage. All hands survived this ill-fated expedition; as Worsley writes,... Frank A. Worsley was the captain of the H.M.S. Endurance, the ship used by the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition t... |
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76,86 zł |
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The Race to the White Continent : Voyages to the Antarctic
ISBN: 9780393323214 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. In the 1830s, the forbidding Antarctic region represented the ultimate mystery. The prospect of discovering a lucrative whaling ground made this uncharted and untapped region especially enticing. Three expeditions to the pole were launched simultaneously by the United States, France, and Britain, each vying to be the first to venture farther south than any vessel had ever sailed before. These expeditions paved the way for the explorers, traders, and whalers of what was to become known as the "Heroic Age" of Antarctic exploration. The Race to the White Continent is a captivating account of...
In the 1830s, the forbidding Antarctic region represented the ultimate mystery. The prospect of discovering a lucrative whaling ground made this uncha...
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83,80 zł |
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Ice Blink : The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition
ISBN: 9780471404200 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Absorbing.artfully narrat es] a possible course of events in the expedition's demise, based on the one official note and bits of debris (including evidence of cannibalism) found by searchers sent to look for Franklin in the 1850s. Adventure readers will flock to this fine regaling of the enduring mystery surrounding the best-known disaster in Arctic exploration.--Booklist
""A great Victorian adventure story rediscovered and re-presented for a more enquiring time.""--The Scotsman ""A vivid, sometimes harrowing chronicle of miscalculation and overweening Victorian pride in untried... Absorbing.artfully narrat es] a possible course of events in the expedition's demise, based on the one official note and bits of debris (including evi...
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80,86 zł |
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Ghosts of Cape Sabine : The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition
ISBN: 9780595409693 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Through private letters and diaries, the author presents a day-by-day chronicle of the true story of the 25 men who in 1881 set sail to establish a scientific base in the Artic region of Lady Franklin Bay. Three years later, only three returned.
Through private letters and diaries, the author presents a day-by-day chronicle of the true story of the 25 men who in 1881 set sail to establish a sc...
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115,07 zł |
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Icebound : The Jeannette Expedition's Quest for the North Pole
ISBN: 9780595409815 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A superb account of the American Navy's boldest and most tragically ill-fated effort to reach the North Pole.
"A gripping tale,""--The Washington Post" "Truly exciting,""--The Atlantic Monthly" "Beautifully executed narrative,""--Kirkus Reviews" .,."Uncovers intriguing new information, including the reason the expedition's full story was never revealed.""--The Cleveland Plain Dealer" "Uncommonly stirring,""--John Barkham Reviews" "On all levels, a book worth reading,""--The New York Times Book Review" A superb account of the American Navy's boldest and most tragically ill-fated effort to reach the North Pole.
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110,30 zł |
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The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881
ISBN: 9780618057016 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the spring of 1881, the steamship Thomas Corwin began a daring voyage of 15,000 nautical miles into treacherous Arctic seas to search for captain G. W. De Long and his ship Jeannette, which had left San Francisco two years earlier to drift across the North Pole while trapped in ice. There had been no word from the Jeannette for months. The ship was never found, but John Muir's account of this expedition--which includes vivid descriptions of ice-choked seas, Arctic vegetation, awe-inspiring glaciers, and the native people--captures the magic and mystery of the farthest reaches of the...
In the spring of 1881, the steamship Thomas Corwin began a daring voyage of 15,000 nautical miles into treacherous Arctic seas to search for captain G...
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76,86 zł |
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Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers: The Transformation of Inuit Settlement in the Central Arctic
ISBN: 9780773524057 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The view has emerged that the Inuit were coerced by the Canadian government into abandoning life in scattered camps for centres of habitation. David Damas demonstrates that eventually, concerns over health, housing, and education and welfare brought about policy changes that inevitably led to centralization.
The view has emerged that the Inuit were coerced by the Canadian government into abandoning life in scattered camps for centres of habitation. David D...
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202,42 zł |
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Before the Heroes Came : Antarctica in the 1890s
ISBN: 9780803261631 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Although the Antarctic ice pack and some offshore islands had been sighted and even landed upon briefly as early as the 1820s, it was not until an eccentric Anglo-Norwegian explorer, Carsten F. Borchgrevink, went ashore in 1895 that a human being set foot on the Antarctic continent. Borchgrevink, snubbed by the British establishment, had stolen a march on several planned competing expeditions from Germany and Scandinavia. Borchgrevink returned to Antarctica in 1899 with a party that was the first to winter over on the continent. Regrettably, bad weather and unscalable mountains limited their...
Although the Antarctic ice pack and some offshore islands had been sighted and even landed upon briefly as early as the 1820s, it was not until an ecc...
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65,06 zł |
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The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the FRAM, 1910-1912
ISBN: 9780814706985 / Angielski / Miękka / 449 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Before Sir Ernest Shackleton's exploration of the Antarctic waters in 1914, Captain Roald Amundsen led a courageous team through ice-chocked waters to become the first expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911. Read the fascinating account of his journey in "The South Pole." "Roald Amundsen planted the Norwegian flag on the South Pole on December 14, 1911: a full month before Robert Falcon Scott arrived on the same spot. Amundsen's 'The South Pole' is less well-known than his rival's, in part because he is less of a literary stylist, but also, perhaps, because he survived the journey.... Before Sir Ernest Shackleton's exploration of the Antarctic waters in 1914, Captain Roald Amundsen led a courageous team through ice-chocked waters... |
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160,67 zł |
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The South Pole : An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912
ISBN: 9780815411277 / Angielski / Miękka / 896 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Roald Amundsen records his race to be the first man to reach the South Pole. Amundsen's expertise enabled him to succeed where his predecessors, and competitors, did not. His rival Captain Robert F. Scott not only failed to reach the Pole first, but--due to poor preparation and miscalculation--died with the rest of his party on their return trip. The South Pole remains one of the greatest and most important books on polar exploration.
Roald Amundsen records his race to be the first man to reach the South Pole. Amundsen's expertise enabled him to succeed where his predecessors, and c...
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120,87 zł |
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Arctic Politics: Conflict and Cooperation in the Circumpolar North
ISBN: 9780874516067 / Angielski / Miękka / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Long recognized by naturalists and adventurers as a dramatically unique region, the Arctic has recently emerged as an area of increasing political, strategic, and economic importance. The Arctic is both one of the world's largest and smallest regions, encompassing 15% of the earth's land mass, yet inhabited by fewer than 1% of the world's population. Its physical vastness is coupled with a wealth of natural resources; in oil alone, the Far North contributes that majority of Russia's production and 25% of US output. At the same time, the Circumpolar North is home to diverse indigenous peoples...
Long recognized by naturalists and adventurers as a dramatically unique region, the Arctic has recently emerged as an area of increasing political, st...
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121,49 zł |
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First Crossing of the Polar Sea
ISBN: 9780898752878 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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163,89 zł |
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The South Pole
ISBN: 9781404332881 / Angielski / Twarda / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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169,71 zł |
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True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World
ISBN: 9781410203359 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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108,11 zł |
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A Collection of Documents On Spitzbergen and Greenland
ISBN: 9781410204547 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is a reprint of a Hakluyt Society publication of 1855. It contains: A Translation from F. Martens= Voyage to Spitzbergen, originally published in1694; A Translation from Isaac de la Peyrere=s Relation de Gorenland, first printed in 1647; and a small tract on Greenland, published about 1630.The collection was edited, with notes, by Adam White of the British Museum.
This is a reprint of a Hakluyt Society publication of 1855. It contains: A Translation from F. Martens= Voyage to Spitzbergen, originally published in...
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200,57 zł |