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Groenland: Geschichte weltweit
ISBN: 9798396557369 / Niemiecki Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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31,75 zł |
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Antarktis: Geschichte weltweit
ISBN: 9798396555815 / Niemiecki Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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31,75 zł |
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The Untold Truth: The Origin of Black People in America
ISBN: 9798398923780 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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33,39 zł |
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96,85 zł |
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Alaska Native Women: Ending the Violence, Reclaiming a Sacred Status
ISBN: 9798396756472 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,80 zł |
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The History of the Faroe Islands: Embracing Nature's Majesty
ISBN: 9798398795752 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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36,29 zł |
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Alaskan Yukon Trophies Won and Lost
ISBN: 9781648373084 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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193,57 zł |
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Alaskan Yukon Trophies Won and Lost
ISBN: 9781648373091 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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145,11 zł |
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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
ISBN: 9780375404030 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. Weaving a treacherous path through the freezing Weddell Sea, they had come within eighty-five miles of their destination when their ship, Endurance, was trapped fast in the ice pack. Soon the ship was crushed like matchwood, leaving the crew stranded on the floes. Their ordeal would last for twenty months,...
In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the S...
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164,39 zł |
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Weird and Tragic Shores: The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer
ISBN: 9780375755255 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the travels and mysterious death of Cincinnati businessman Charles Francis Hall, who ignored the dangers and set out to rescue the survivors of an expedition that had disappeared into the Arctic fifteen years earlier.
Examines the travels and mysterious death of Cincinnati businessman Charles Francis Hall, who ignored the dangers and set out to rescue the survivors ...
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82,19 zł |
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Encyclopedia of the Antarctic
ISBN: 9780415970242 / Angielski / Twarda / 1272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Antarctic is unique, geographically, politically, and scientifically. It is the most remote, hostile, and dangerous continent, while at the same time it is the most pristine and least developed. Antarctica is the only major part of the Earth's landmass not directly governed by one nation, but under the control of a Treaty, with a multitude of acceding nations. The Encyclopedia of the Antarctic brings together large quantities of information on the wide variety of factors, issues and individuals influencing and relating to the Antarctic. No comparable book currently...
The Antarctic is unique, geographically, politically, and scientifically. It is the most remote, hostile, and dangerous continent, while at the same t...
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2478,04 zł |
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Mawson: A Life
ISBN: 9780522850789 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A hero of the polar exploration age, Sir Douglas Mawson is profiled in this biography, which recounts his Antarctic expeditions of 1911 1914 and 1929 1931, which resulted in Australia claiming 40 percent of the sixth continent. The personal letters and professional correspondences included reveal Mawson s relationships with influential friends and rivals. Recounted are such adventures as Mawson's confrontation of a delusional explorer in Antarctica who believed that he was Jesus Christ, his trip on an advanced monoplane, and his inspections of English war factories for chemical weapons.
" A hero of the polar exploration age, Sir Douglas Mawson is profiled in this biography, which recounts his Antarctic expeditions of 1911 1914 and 1929 ...
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140,46 zł |
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The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica
ISBN: 9780618219216 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE CRYSTAL DESERT: SUMMERS IN ANTARCTICA is the story of life's tenacity on the coldest of Earth's continents. It tells of the explorers who discovered Antarctica, of the whalers and sealers who despoiled it, and of the scientists who are deciphering its mysteries. In beautiful, lucid prose, David G. Campbell chronicles the desperately short summers on the Antarctic Peninsula. He presents a fascinating portrait of the evolution of life in Antarctica and also of the evolution of the continent itself.
THE CRYSTAL DESERT: SUMMERS IN ANTARCTICA is the story of life's tenacity on the coldest of Earth's continents. It tells of the explorers who discover...
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95,13 zł |
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This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
ISBN: 9780679758525 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the last decade, Gretel Ehrlich has been obsessed by an island, a terrain, a culture, and the treacherous beauty of a world that is defined by ice. In This Cold Heaven she combines the story of her travels with history and cultural anthropology to reveal a Greenland that few of us could otherwise imagine.
Ehrlich unlocks the secrets of this severe land and those who live there; a hardy people who still travel by dogsled and kayak and prefer the mystical four months a year of endless darkness to the gentler summers without night. She discovers the twenty-three words the Inuit... For the last decade, Gretel Ehrlich has been obsessed by an island, a terrain, a culture, and the treacherous beauty of a world that is defined by ice...
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95,17 zł |
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Arctic Clothing
ISBN: 9780773530089 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the Arctic, sea and land animals provide the raw materials for garments that allow people to hunt and survive in the world's harshest conditions.
In the Arctic, sea and land animals provide the raw materials for garments that allow people to hunt and survive in the world's harshest conditions.
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255,63 zł |
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Ancient People of the Arctic
ISBN: 9780774808545 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ancient People of the Arctic traces the lives of the Palaeo Eskimos, the bold first explorers of the Arctic. Four thousand years ago, these people entered the far northern extremes of the North American continent, carving a living out of their bleak new homeland. From the hints they left behind, accessible only through the fragmented archaeological record, Robert McGhee ingeniously reconstructs a picture of this life at the margins. He discusses how the Palaeo-Eskimos spread across the entire Arctic, explains how they dealt with sharp climate changes that drastically altered their... Ancient People of the Arctic traces the lives of the Palaeo Eskimos, the bold first explorers of the Arctic. Four thousand years ago, these ... |
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146,02 zł |
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The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America, Ca. A.D. 1000-1500
ISBN: 9780804731614 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is now generally accepted the Leif Eriksson sailed from Greenland across the Davis Strait and made landfalls on the North American continent almost a thousand years ago, but what happened in this vast area during the next five hundred years has long been a source of disagreement among scholars. Using new archeological, scientific, and documentary information (much of it in Scandinavian languages that are a bar to most Western historians), this book confronts many of the unanswered questions about early exploration and colonization along the shores of the Davis Strait. The author brings...
It is now generally accepted the Leif Eriksson sailed from Greenland across the Davis Strait and made landfalls on the North American continent almost...
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146,02 zł |
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A Prehistory of the North: Human Settlement of the Higher Latitudes
ISBN: 9780813534695 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Early humans did not simply drift northward from their African origins as their abilities to cope with cooler climates evolved. The initial settlement of places like Europe and northern Asia, as well as the later movement into the Arctic and the Americas, actually occurred in relatively rapid bursts of expansion. A Prehistory of the North is the first full-length study to tell the complex story, spanning almost two million years, of how humans inhabited some of the coldest places on earth. In an account rich with illustrations, John Hoffecker traces the history of anatomical... Early humans did not simply drift northward from their African origins as their abilities to cope with cooler climates evolved. The initial settlem... |
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192,20 zł |
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The First Crossing of Greenland
ISBN: 9780898753776 / Angielski / Miękka / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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145,11 zł |
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The Antarctic Journal of a Sailor on Operation Windmill 1947-48
ISBN: 9781425988913 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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82,11 zł |
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