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Contesting the Arctic: Politics and Imaginaries in the Circumpolar North
ISBN: 9781780761480 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention. The promise of new sources of mineral wealth and energy, and of new transportation routes, has seen countries expand their sovereignty claims. Increasingly, interested parties from both within and beyond the region, including states, indigenous groups, corporate organizations, and NGOs and are pursuing their visions for the Arctic. What form of political organization should prevail? Contesting the Arctic provides a map of potential governance...
As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention. The ...
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617,65 zł |
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Overcoming Pakistan's Nuclear Dangers
ISBN: 9781138796676 / Angielski / Miękka / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pakistan's nuclear arsenal - the fastest growing in the world - raises concerns on many grounds. Although far from the scale of the Cold War, South Asia is experiencing a strategic arms race. And the more weapons there are, the more potential for theft, sabotage and nuclear terrorism. Worries that Pakistan's nuclear-weapons technology might again be transferred to nuclear aspirants have not been expunged. Being outside the nuclear club makes it harder to ensure nuclear safety. Of gravest concern is the potential for a nuclear war, triggered by another large-scale terrorist attack in India... Pakistan's nuclear arsenal - the fastest growing in the world - raises concerns on many grounds. Although far from the scale of the Cold War, South... |
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77,15 zł |
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The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture
ISBN: 9780226214153 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late 1800s, Arctic Fever swept across the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to the Arctic to find a sea route to Asia and, ultimately, to stand at the North Pole. Few of these missions were successful, and many men lost their lives en route. Yet failure did little to dampen the enthusiasm of new explorers or the crowds at home that cheered them on. Arctic exploration, Michael F. Robinson argues, was an activity that unfolded in America as much as it did in the wintry hinterland. Paying particular attention to the perils facing explorers at home, "The Coldest...
In the late 1800s, Arctic Fever swept across the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to the Arctic to find a sea route to Asia and, ...
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130,03 zł |
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Arctic Security in a Warming World
ISBN: 9781497460508 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A convergence of global factors is opening new territory and presenting new security challenges for the United States in the Arctic. The sovereign nations of the Arctic region must develop and implement security measures to manage the influx of interested parties and protect both their interests and the region. National interests and policy objectives in the Arctic call for renewed political and military attention within U.S. national security efforts. Engaging the United Nations and leveraging North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) Command and U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) capabilities...
A convergence of global factors is opening new territory and presenting new security challenges for the United States in the Arctic. The sovereign nat...
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35,67 zł |
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Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition
ISBN: 9781630261153 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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128,00 zł |
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Rough Weather All Day: An Account of the Jeannette Search Expedition by Patrick Cahill
ISBN: 9780988701960 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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89,74 zł |
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The worst Journey in the World: Antarctic Journey 1910-1913. Volume I+II
ISBN: 9783737200714 / Angielski / Miękka / 604 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised. It is the only form of adventure in which you put on your clothes at Michaelmas and keep them on until Christmas, and, save for a layer of the natural grease of the body, find them as clean as though they were new. It is more lonely than London, more secluded than any monastery, and the post comes but once a year. As men will compare the hardships of France, Palestine, or Mesopotamia, so it would be interesting to contrast the rival claims of the Antarctic as a medium of discomfort. A...
"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised. It is the only form of adventure in whic...
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268,78 zł |
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My Attainment of the Pole
ISBN: 9780815411376 / Angielski / Miękka / 670 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The subzero temperatures were only one of the dangers explorer Frederick Cook (1865-1940) faced in his attempts to reach the North Pole. During his extraordinary and harrowing journey, he fought off arctic wolves and polar bears, lived through ice storms, almost starved on several occasions, and faced long and lonely hours of isolation. His book relates how he learned from Eskimos how to survive in the Arctic, hunting musk ox to survive, harpooning walruses, and traveling by dog sled. After his journey, he defended himself against the charges of fellow explorer Robert Peary, who claimed that...
The subzero temperatures were only one of the dangers explorer Frederick Cook (1865-1940) faced in his attempts to reach the North Pole. During his ex...
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128,00 zł |
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Rough Weather All Day: An Account of the Jeannette Search Expedition by Patrick Cahill
ISBN: 9780988701991 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Arctic journal of Patrick Cahill, Machinists Mate on board the U.S.S. Rodgers, sent from San Francisco in 1881 to find out the fate of the missing exploration ship Jeannette. After a fruitless search, the Rodgers retired for the winter to St. Lawrence Bay in Siberia, where she burned to the waterline.
The stranded seamen were taken in by the native Tchouchkis, who shared what little they had. Cahills journal recounts it all--the exhilarating moments of discovery, the dreadful fire that cast him away on a desolate shore, the shock of two cultures coming together in an extreme of... The Arctic journal of Patrick Cahill, Machinists Mate on board the U.S.S. Rodgers, sent from San Francisco in 1881 to find out the fate of the missing...
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106,84 zł |
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A Frenchman in Search of Franklin: De Bray's Arctic Journal, 1852-54
ISBN: 9781442623699 / Angielski / Miękka / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In April 1852 Emile Frederic de Bray sailed down the Thames on board the Resolute, part of Sie Edward Belcher's Arctic Squadron in search of Sir John Franklin and his men, missing since the summer of 1845. De Bray's diaries of his years with Resolute have not been published before, in any language, and only one other account of this particular Franklin search expedition exists. Enseigne-de-vaisseau de Bray, seconded at his own request from the French navy, was something of a rarity among those who made up the search parties: he was not British. (One of his shipmates hopes for the... In April 1852 Emile Frederic de Bray sailed down the Thames on board the Resolute, part of Sie Edward Belcher's Arctic Squadron in search of Sir Jo... |
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164,70 zł |
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The Worst Journey in the World
ISBN: 9781409212294 / Angielski / Twarda / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised. It is the only form of adventure in which you put on your clothes at Michaelmas and keep them on until Christmas, and, save for a layer of the natural grease of the body, find them as clean as though they were new. It is more lonely than London, more secluded than any monastery, and the post comes but once a year. As men will compare the hardships of France, Palestine, or Mesopotamia, so it would be interesting to contrast the rival claims of the Antarctic as a medium of discomfort. A...
"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised. It is the only form of adventure in whic...
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184,65 zł |
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The Diary of Johannes Hansen: Expedition to Eastern Greenland: 1884-1885
ISBN: 9780982915592 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The catechist Johannes Hansen, called Hanserak, a Greenlandic missionary, was part of Captain Gustav Holm s well-known umiaq expedition to the east coast of Greenland (1884 1885), which passed the winter in Angmagssalik and discovered eleven Inuit communities. His diary is a series of extremely interesting sketches of the remarkable customs and practices of the native people and was reported in the pages of Atuagagdliutit, the first Greenlandic newspaper.
This work examines the people of eastern Greenland at the later stages of the 19th century in diaristic form, but with the compassion... The catechist Johannes Hansen, called Hanserak, a Greenlandic missionary, was part of Captain Gustav Holm s well-known umiaq expedition to the east co...
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97,80 zł |
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
ISBN: 9780307946911 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Best Book of the Year
USA Today * Time Magazine * Washington Post * Miami Herald * Richmond Times Dispatch * Christian Science Monitor * Daily Beast * Minneapolis Star Tribune On July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from San Francisco on the USS Jeanette. Heading deep into uncharted Arctic waters, they carriedthe aspirations of a young country burning to be the first nation to reach the North Pole. Two years into the harrowing voyage, the Jeannette's hull was breached by... A Best Book of the Year
USA Today * Time Magazine * Washington Post * Miami Herald * Richmond Times Dispatch * Christian Science ... |
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85,47 zł |
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The Worst Journey in the World
ISBN: 9781781395202 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -It is rare to find a person who is at once a great traveller, recounting an overwhelming experience, and who is also such an accomplished writer.- - Paul Theroux. This unabridged illustrated edition contains Volumes I and II of Apsley Cherry-Garrard's description of Scott's final polar expedition.
-It is rare to find a person who is at once a great traveller, recounting an overwhelming experience, and who is also such an accomplished writer.- - ...
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124,98 zł |
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Singnagtugaq: A Greenlanders Dream
ISBN: 9780982170380 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 1915, Singnagtugaq: A Greenlanders Dream, created both furor and literary history as the first original novel in Greenlandic. Initially the book was seen as an encounter between the historic clash of good and evil Danish colonizers and the colonized Greenlanders. The book portrays this encounter in vivid, harsh terms reflecting the time. At the end of the novel comes a vision of a future, modern Greenland, freed from colonial humiliation and poverty: the first literary expression of the desire for progress which later became so prominent in Greenlandic poetry and politics. It...
Published in 1915, Singnagtugaq: A Greenlanders Dream, created both furor and literary history as the first original novel in Greenlandic. Initially t...
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97,80 zł |
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True Tales of Arctic Heroism in The New World
ISBN: 9781517118051 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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44,82 zł |
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Polar Exploration
ISBN: 9781523609048 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the men who travelled to Antarctica with Captain Scott, 'Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.' Despite this there has never been a shortage of volunteers willing to endure the bad times in pursuit of the glory that polar exploration sometimes brings. James Tyrell, recounts the memorable stories of those who have risked their lives by entering the white wastelands of the Arctic and the Antarctic, from the compelling tales of Scott, Shackleton and franklin to lesser known heroes...
According to Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the men who travelled to Antarctica with Captain Scott, 'Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most...
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44,82 zł |
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A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
ISBN: 9780393254419 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, hundreds of miles from another human being, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a line of mysterious peaks looming in the distance. He called this unexplored realm "Crocker Land." Scientists and explorers agreed that the world-famous explorer had discovered a new continent rising from the frozen Arctic Ocean. Several years later, two of Peary's disciples, George Borup and Donald MacMillan, assembled a team of amateur adventurers to investigate Crocker Land. Before them lay a chance at the kind of lasting... In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, hundreds of miles from another human being, Commander Robert E. Pear... |
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119,20 zł |
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The Oxford Handbook of the Prehistoric Arctic
ISBN: 9780199766956 / Angielski / Twarda / 1000 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The North American Arctic was one of the last regions on Earth to be settled by humans, due to its extreme climate, limited range of resources, and remoteness from populated areas. Despite these factors, it holds a complex and lengthy history relating to Inuit, Inupiat, Inuvialuit, Yup'ik and Aleut peoples and their ancestors. The artifacts, dwellings, and food remains of these ancient peoples are remarkably well-preserved due to cold temperatures and permafrost, allowing archaeologists to reconstruct their lifeways with great accuracy. Furthermore, the combination of modern Elders'...
The North American Arctic was one of the last regions on Earth to be settled by humans, due to its extreme climate, limited range of resources, and re...
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749,92 zł |
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The Saga of the 'Discovery'
ISBN: 9781871510355 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of Captain Scott's first expedition, by one who went with him. The story of Captain Scott's first expedition, by one who went with him. |
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85,43 zł |