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Overland to Starvation Cove: With the Inuit in Search of Franklin, 1878-1880
ISBN: 9780802073976 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In May 1845 Sir John Franklin sailed westward from England in search of the Northwest Passage and was never seen again. Some thirty-five years later, Heinrich Klutschak of Prague, artist and surveyor on a small expedition led by Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka of the 3rd US Cavalry Regiment, stumbled upon the grisly remains at Starvation Cove of the last survivors among Franklin's men. Overland to Starvation Cove is the first English translation of Klutschak's account. A significant contribution to Canadian exploration history, it is also an important anthropological... In May 1845 Sir John Franklin sailed westward from England in search of the Northwest Passage and was never seen again. Some thirty-five years late... |
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Drift Station: Arctic Outposts of Superpower Science
ISBN: 9781574887716 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Closed to conventional passage, the Arctic Ocean and peripheral seas have nevertheless known European explorers since the sixteenth century. Systematic observation, however, dates only from the last years of the nineteenth century, with the epic drift of Fridtjof Nansen's ice ship Fram (1893-1896), the first scientific expedition of the modern era. Twentieth-century technology--the icebreaker, radio transmission, nuclear power, and aircraft--opened the Arctic for survey, basic research, and observation. World War II saw the inhospitable circumpolar Arctic transformed into a theater of...
Closed to conventional passage, the Arctic Ocean and peripheral seas have nevertheless known European explorers since the sixteenth century. Systemati...
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Colonialism and Antarctica: Attitudes, Logics, and Practices
ISBN: 9781526182173 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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156,87 |
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Canada and the Changing Arctic: Sovereignty, Security, and Stewardship
ISBN: 9781554583386 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global warming has had a dramatic impact on the Arctic environment, including the ice melt that has opened previously ice-covered waterways. State and non-state actors who look to the region and its resources with varied agendas have started to pay attention. Do new geopolitical dynamics point to a competitive and inherently conflictual a oerace for resourcesa ? Or will the Arctic become a region governed by mutual benefit, international law, and the achievement of a widening array of cooperative arrangements among interested states and Indigenous peoples? As an Arctic... Global warming has had a dramatic impact on the Arctic environment, including the ice melt that has opened previously ice-covered waterways. State... |
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158,96 |
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The Fast-Changing Arctic: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World
ISBN: 9781552386460 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this timely new book, international scholars and military professionals come together to explore the strategic consequences of the thawing of the Arctic. Their analyses of efforts by governments and defence, security, and coast guard organizations to address these challenges make timely and urgent reading.
Rather than a single national perspective, The Fast-Changing Arctic: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World, brings together circumpolar viewpoints from North America, Europe and Asia for an integrated discussion of strategic military, diplomatic, and security challenges... In this timely new book, international scholars and military professionals come together to explore the strategic consequences of the thawing of the A...
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By Airship to North Pole: An Archaeology of Human Exploration
ISBN: 9780813526331 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By Airship to the North Polechronicles the adventures of Swedish engineer Salomon August Andree, who made the first failed attempt to reach the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon in 1897, and of American journalist Walter Wellman who organized and led three unsuccessful air expeditions from 1907 to 1909. The book investigates the stories behind the quests to reach this remote and inhospitable outpost by air and examines how those stories were created and reported by the press. What he uncovers allows readers to reflect on the distortions of the written historical record, particularly...
By Airship to the North Polechronicles the adventures of Swedish engineer Salomon August Andree, who made the first failed attempt to reach the...
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Arctic Adaptations
ISBN: 9780874516333 / Angielski / Miękka / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The common view of indigenous Arctic cultures, even among scholarly observers, has long been one of communities continually in ecological harmony with their natural environment. In Arctic Adaptations, Igor Krupnik dismisses the textbook notion of traditional societies as static. Using information from years of field research, interviews with native Siberians, and archaeological site visits, Krupnik demonstrates that these societies are characterized not by stability but by dynamism and significant evolutionary breaks. Their apparent state of ecological harmony is, in fact, a conscious...
The common view of indigenous Arctic cultures, even among scholarly observers, has long been one of communities continually in ecological harmony with...
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163,93 |
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The South Pole; An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-12. Volumes I and II
ISBN: 9781849021951 / Angielski / Twarda / 594 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Geography; Science / Earth Sciences / Geography; Travel / General; Travel / Essays
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more t...
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Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search
ISBN: 9780773547841 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2014 media around the world buzzed with news that an archaeological team from Parks Canada had located and identified the wreck of HMS Erebus, the flagship of Sir John Franklin s lost expedition to find the Northwest Passage. Finding Franklin outlines the larger story and the cast of detectives from every walk of life that led to the discovery, solving one of the Arctic s greatest mysteries. In compelling and accessible prose, Russell Potter details his decades of work alongside key figures in the era of modern searches for the expedition and elucidates how shared research and ideas have...
In 2014 media around the world buzzed with news that an archaeological team from Parks Canada had located and identified the wreck of HMS Erebus, the ...
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173,87 |
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Arctic Scientist, Gulag Survivor: The Biography of Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev, 1905-1991
ISBN: 9781552382561 / Angielski / Miękka / 615 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most prominent Soviet Arctic scientists of the 1920s and 1930s, Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev was a geologist, physicist, and oceanographer. After working in the Arctic for some thirteen years, he was arrested by the NKVD, convicted on a trumped-up charge of -sabotage, - and sent to the Gulag for ten years. After barely surviving a year of correctional hard labour in a lumber camp, Ermolaev was appointed to a sharashka, or professional team, which was charged with extending the railroad to the coal mines of Vorkuta in the farthest reaches of northeast Russia. Still later, he and...
One of the most prominent Soviet Arctic scientists of the 1920s and 1930s, Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev was a geologist, physicist, and oceanographer...
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The Heart of the Antarctic (Annotated, Large Print): Vol I and II
ISBN: 9781649220202 / Angielski / Miękka / 1030 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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192,79 |
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In the Shadow of the Pole: An Early History of Arctic Expeditions, 1871-1912 (Large Print 16 Pt Edition)
ISBN: 9781038721631 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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197,35 |
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The Reindeer Botanist: Alf Erling Porsild, 1901-1977
ISBN: 9781552385869 / Angielski / Miękka / 748 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Reindeer Botanist: Alf Erling Porsild, 1901-1977 is the first biography of one of Canada's most remarkable botanists. Alf Erling Porsild (1901-1977) grew up on the Arctic Station in West Greenland and later served as curator of botany at the National Museum of Canada. He collected thousands of specimens, greatly enlarging the National Herbarium and making it a superb research centre. For nearly twenty years, Porsild studied reindeer activities in Alaska and the Northwest Territories as part of the Reindeer Project designed to encourage grazing animal husbandry among aboriginal peoples. He...
The Reindeer Botanist: Alf Erling Porsild, 1901-1977 is the first biography of one of Canada's most remarkable botanists. Alf Erling Porsild (1901-197...
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198,70 |
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Tracing Darwin's Path in Cape Horn
ISBN: 9781574416961 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Darwin spent the majority of his 1831-1836 voyage around the world in southern South America, and his early experiences in the Cape Horn region seem to have triggered his first ideas on human evolution. Darwin was not only a field naturalist, but also a scholar of the observations of the European explorers who preceded him. Richly illustrated with maps and color photographs, this book offers a guide to the sites visited by Darwin, and a compass for present-day visitors who can follow Darwin's path over the sea and land that today are protected by the UNESCO Cape Horn Biosphere...
Charles Darwin spent the majority of his 1831-1836 voyage around the world in southern South America, and his early experiences in the Cape Horn regio...
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Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance: The Ghosts of the Franklin Expedition
ISBN: 9780230340329 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1845, John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition disappeared. The expedition left a remarkable archive of performative remains that entice one to consider the tension between material remains and memory, to contemplate how affect influences historical narratives, and to reflect on how substitution and surrogation work alongside mourning and melancholia as responses to loss. This book proposes that performances generate critical insights into how those affected by the expedition's disappearance understood the losses they experienced and makes the broader argument that performance...
In 1845, John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition disappeared. The expedition left a remarkable archive of performative remains that entice one to...
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203,13 |
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Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance: The Ghosts of the Franklin Expedition
ISBN: 9781349342907 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of Guelph.
Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of Guelph.
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203,13 |
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Anthropocene Antarctica: Perspectives from the Humanities, Law and Social Sciences
ISBN: 9781032089157 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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223,49 |
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Russia's Arctic Strategies and the Future of the Far North
ISBN: 9780765635013 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of Russia's Arctic strategy, ranging from climate change issues and territorial disputes to energy policy and domestic challenges. As the receding polar ice increases the accessibility of the Arctic region, rival powers have been manoeuvering for geopolitical and resource security. Geographically, Russia controls half of the Arctic coastline, 40 percent of the land area beyond the Circumpolar North, and three quarters of the Arctic population. In total, the sea and land surface area of the Russian Arctic is about 6 million square...
This book offers the first comprehensive examination of Russia's Arctic strategy, ranging from climate change issues and territorial disputes to energ...
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243,36 |
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A Collection of Documents on Spitzbergen and Greenland: Comprising a Translation from F. Martens' Voyage to Spitzbergen, a Translation from Isaac de l
ISBN: 9781108008136 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This volume (published in 1855) contains three narratives: Frederick Martens' description of a voyage to Spitzbergen in 1671, first translated into English and published in 1694 in a...
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first se...
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270,87 |
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The Heart of the Antarctic (Annotated, Large Print): Vol I and II
ISBN: 9781649220363 / Angielski / Twarda / 1030 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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271,74 |
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