The Future History of the Arctic
ISBN: 9781586486365 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For thousands of years, the arctic was deamed largely uninhabitable, home only to a small, indigenous population viewed as having been left behind by history. It was considered marginal to world affairs. Now, however, it is heating up and the consequence of that warming will definitely affect the entire world. Charles Emmerson eloquently describes the evolution of the arctic and the future consequences of that evolution. For thousands of years, the arctic was deamed largely uninhabitable, home only to a small, indigenous population viewed as having been left behind ... |
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180,37 zł |
Local Knowledge: Living Resources and Natural Assets in Greenland
ISBN: 9780982170328 / Angielski / Miękka / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Available for the first time in English, this collection is of particular significance in a world where global climate change and its impact on communities, flora, and fauna is changing the way we govern our lives. Presented in both contemporary and historical perspectives, Petersen's interviews of residents shed further light on what is referred to as "tradi-tional knowledge" and regarded by Greenlanders as most pertinent to their own lives. Included here are illustrations and photographs from Petersen's extensive collection. Reliable first hand accounts of these subjects in the arctic, over...
Available for the first time in English, this collection is of particular significance in a world where global climate change and its impact on commun...
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192,56 zł |
The Icelandic Colonization of Greenland and the Finding of Vineland: Volume 57
ISBN: 9788763522823 / Angielski / Miękka / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This facsimile edition of the original 1918 volume gives a historical overview of the Viking expeditions to and colonizations of Greenland and Vinland on the eastern shores of North America, detailing the history of a wide range of settlements and sites based both on archaeological findings and contemporary Norse sources.
This facsimile edition of the original 1918 volume gives a historical overview of the Viking expeditions to and colonizations of Greenland and Vinland...
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291,29 zł |
The Worst Journey in the World: With Scott in Antarctica 1910-1913
ISBN: 9780486477329 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Worst Journey in the World is to travel writing what War and Peace is to the novel . . . a masterpiece."--The New York Review of Books
"When people ask me, 'What is your favorite travel book?' I nearly always name this book. It is about courage, misery, starvation, heroism, exploration, discovery, and friendship." --Paul Theroux National Geographic Adventure magazine hailed this volume as the #1 greatest adventure book of all time. Published in 1922 by an expedition survivor, it recounts the riveting tale of Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated race to the... "The Worst Journey in the World is to travel writing what War and Peace is to the novel . . . a masterpiece."--The New York Review of...
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81,39 zł |
Oil and Ice: A Story of Arctic Disaster and the Rise and Fall of America's Last Whaling Dynas Ty
ISBN: 9780143118367 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Peter Nichols has crafted a terrifyingly relevant historical narrative...A terrific read.-
-Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In The Heart of the Sea In 1871, America's last fleet of whaling ships was destroyed in an arctic ice storm. Miraculously, 1,218 men, women and children survived, but the disaster was catastrophic at home. Oil and Ice is the story of one fateful whaling season that illuminates the unprecedented rise and devastating fall of America's first oil economy, and the fate of today's petroleum industry. -Peter Nichols has crafted a terrifyingly relevant historical narrative...A terrific read.-
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103,07 zł |
I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination
ISBN: 9780312220815 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Francis Spufford explores the British obsession with polar exploration in a book that Jan Morris, writing in The Times, called, "A truly majestic work of scholarship, thought and literary imagination . . ." The title, a last quote from one explorer to his party as he left their tent never to return, embodies the danger and mystery that fueled the romantic allure of the poles and, subsequently, the British imagination. Far from being a conventional history of polar exploration, I May Be Some Time attempts to understand what was going on in the minds of the polar explorers as... Francis Spufford explores the British obsession with polar exploration in a book that Jan Morris, writing in The Times, called, "A truly ma... |
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120,20 zł |
The Moravian Beginnings of Canadian Inuit Literature: An Exhibition of Special Collections from McGill University Library Rare Books and Special Colle
ISBN: 9780982170366 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traced here are the beginnings of literacy and literature for Inuit living in Labrador and the eastern Canadian arctic. Inuit living in Labrador in the 19th and early 20th centuries were more literate than white settlers as a direct result of the Moravian missionaries who taught them to read and write in Inuktitut in the mission schools. Many of the original Inuktitut texts used by the mission teachers and students are included as part of this exhibition. The Labrador Inuit are the first Canadian Inuit to have their own language. Their first texts took the form of songs or narratives....
Traced here are the beginnings of literacy and literature for Inuit living in Labrador and the eastern Canadian arctic. Inuit living in Labrador in th...
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70,94 zł |
The Worst Journey in the World
ISBN: 9781849020909 / Angielski / Twarda / 556 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A beautiful, fully illustated edition of Apsley Cherry-Garrard's wonderful record of the Worst Journey in the World. Cherry-Garrard does describe Scott's unsucessful attempt to be to first person to the South Pole, but this is not the worst journey. This is the complete book--Volums I and II and glossary.
A beautiful, fully illustated edition of Apsley Cherry-Garrard's wonderful record of the Worst Journey in the World. Cherry-Garrard does describe Scot...
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165,59 zł |
The Worst Journey in the World
ISBN: 9783861952794 / Angielski / Miękka / 602 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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392,30 zł |
The Polar Eskimos
ISBN: 9780982915509 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A rich and astounding collection of stories transcribed directly from the Inuit of Greenland in the 1930s
A rich and astounding collection of stories transcribed directly from the Inuit of Greenland in the 1930s
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141,89 zł |
Hotel Grønland: Human use of caves and rock shelters in West Greenland
ISBN: 9781841716589 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on original fieldwork, historical evidence and interviews with local inhabitants of central west Greenland, Clemens Pasda's study looks at the nature of caribou-huntuing in the past and present, and the types of sites utilised. He argues that some of the sites were used like hotels, some being re-used many times when the same routes were taken year after year. His study identifies a series of site-types from camps established at fjords, large camps at the ends of routes along lakes and rivers, typically located in the centre of caribou areas, and smaller sleeping/resting places in the...
Based on original fieldwork, historical evidence and interviews with local inhabitants of central west Greenland, Clemens Pasda's study looks at the n...
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193,36 zł |
The European Antarctic: Science and Strategy in Scandinavia and the British Empire
ISBN: 9780230115910 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first transnational study of British, Norwegian, and Swedish engagement with the Antarctic. Rather than charting how Europeans unveiled the Antarctic, it uses the history of Antarctic activity as a window into the political and cultural worlds of twentieth-century Britain and Scandinavia.
This is the first transnational study of British, Norwegian, and Swedish engagement with the Antarctic. Rather than charting how Europeans unveiled th...
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389,98 zł |
Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram, 1893-96, and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey
ISBN: 9781108030922 / Angielski / Miękka / 652 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1897, this two-volume work chronicles the polar expedition of Norwegian scientist Fridtjof Nansen (1861 1930), who came closer than any previous explorer to the North Pole. Beginning on board his boat, the Fram, which was deliberately driven into pack-ice off Siberia in order to drift north, Nansen and his companions later resorted to sleds and kayaks. Running to over six hundred pages, Volume 1 includes descriptions of the expedition's preparation and equipment, the farewell to Norway and voyage through the Kara Sea, ending with the party's second autumn on the ice....
Originally published in 1897, this two-volume work chronicles the polar expedition of Norwegian scientist Fridtjof Nansen (1861 1930), who came closer...
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238,11 zł |
Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram, 1893-96, and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey
ISBN: 9781108030939 / Angielski / Miękka / 840 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1897, this two-volume work chronicles the polar expedition of Norwegian scientist Fridtjof Nansen (1861 1930), who came closer than any previous explorer to the North Pole. Beginning on board his boat, the Fram, which was deliberately driven into pack-ice off Siberia in order to drift north, Nansen and his companions later resorted to sleds and kayaks. Volume 2 describes the journey over the ice setting out with 28 dogs, 3 sledges and 2 kayaks and ends with an account of the return journey. (It also includes Captain Otto Sverdrup's report of the expedition.) The Fram...
Originally published in 1897, this two-volume work chronicles the polar expedition of Norwegian scientist Fridtjof Nansen (1861 1930), who came closer...
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268,52 zł |
Acts of Occupation: Canada and Arctic Sovereignty, 1918-25
ISBN: 9780774818681 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Acts of Occupation, historians Janice Cavell and Jeff Noakes deliver the engrossing story of Canada's early days of Arctic policy. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped archival sources, they show how one explorer's self-serving ambition fueled unfounded paranoia about Denmark's designs on the north, and ultimately served as the catalyst for Canada's active administrative occupation of the Arctic. A compelling tale that throws new light on a transformative period in Canadian Arctic policymaking, Acts of Occupation offers much-needed historical context for contemporary... In Acts of Occupation, historians Janice Cavell and Jeff Noakes deliver the engrossing story of Canada's early days of Arctic policy. Drawin... |
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172,28 zł |
In the Lena Delta: A Narrative of the Search for Lieut-Commander de Long and His Companions, Followed by an Account of the Greely Relief
ISBN: 9781108041737 / Angielski / Miękka / 546 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George W. Melville (1841 1912) was a member of an 1879 American Arctic expedition seeking a northern passage from the Bering Strait to the Atlantic. Its ship was trapped in ice for nearly two years, and was eventually crushed and sank. The crew, stranded in three small boats, were left with few provisions and little hope of rescue. Melville was the only boat commander to bring his men to safety, assuming leadership of the survivors after landing in Siberia in 1881. He returned to search for other survivors, trekking over a thousand miles, but found only the bodies of his former companions in...
George W. Melville (1841 1912) was a member of an 1879 American Arctic expedition seeking a northern passage from the Bering Strait to the Atlantic. I...
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212,77 zł |
Entire Earth and Sky: Views on Antarctica
ISBN: 9780803240018 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than a distant continent, Antarctica is a land of the imagination, shaping and shaped for centuries by explorers, adventurers, scientists, and dreamers. The Entire Earth and Sky, a kaleidoscope of legends, stories, field notes, images, reports, history, letters, and research, renders an impression, both vast and microscopic, of the effect of human beings on the land we call Antarctica, and its effect on us. It balances the reality of the frigid outpost populated by a ragtag alliance of international researchers against the crystalline dreamscape of a continent at the bottom of the...
More than a distant continent, Antarctica is a land of the imagination, shaping and shaped for centuries by explorers, adventurers, scientists, and dr...
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85,68 zł |
Fram: To the Ends of the Earth
ISBN: 9780956887801 / Angielski / Miękka / 47 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Finally Fram showed herself in all her glory as the best sea-boat in the world. It was extraordinary to watch how she behaved. ... the Fram gave a wriggle of her body and was instantly at the top of the wave, which slipped under the vessel. Can anyone be surprised if one gets fond of such a ship?" --Captain Nilsen of the Fram, 1912. From her launch in 1892, to the triumphant return to Norway in 1914, the polar expeditionary ship Fram sailed north almost to the North Pole, and south to Antarctica. supporting three of the most daring of all polar adventures. In the centenary year of Roald...
"Finally Fram showed herself in all her glory as the best sea-boat in the world. It was extraordinary to watch how she behaved. ... the Fram gave a wr...
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47,48 zł |
First Crossing of the Polar Sea
ISBN: 9781447427346 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republ...
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187,54 zł |
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition (1914-1917)
ISBN: 9781461053491 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.
This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as wel...
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58,58 zł |