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Science on Ice: Four Polar Expeditions
ISBN: 9780226482477 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 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, wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his time with the 1910 Scott expedition to the South Pole. And that s how most of us still imagine polar expeditions: stolid men with ice riming their beards drawing sledges and risking death for scientific knowledge. But polar science has changed drastically over the past century as Chris Linder shows us, brilliantly, with "Science on Ice." Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised, wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his ti... |
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192,20 zł |
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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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284,54 zł |
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The Arctic Guide: Wildlife of the Far North
ISBN: 9780691139753 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Arctic Guide presents the traveler and naturalist with a portable, authoritative guide to the flora and fauna of earth's northernmost region. Featuring superb color illustrations, this one-of-a-kind book covers the complete spectrum of wildlife--more than 800 species of plants, fishes, butterflies, birds, and mammals--that inhabit the Arctic's polar deserts, tundra, taiga, sea ice, and oceans. It can be used anywhere in the entire Holarctic region, including Norway's Svalbard archipelago, Siberia, the Russian Far East, islands of the Bering Sea, Alaska, the Canadian Arctic, and... The Arctic Guide presents the traveler and naturalist with a portable, authoritative guide to the flora and fauna of earth's northernmost re... |
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139,10 zł |
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The Changing Arctic Environment: The Arctic Messenger
ISBN: 9781107094413 / Angielski / Twarda / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This accessible and engagingly written book describes how national and international scientific monitoring programmes brought to light our present understanding of Arctic environmental change, and how these research results were successfully used to achieve international legal actions to lessen some of the environmental impacts. David Stone was intimately involved in many of these scientific and political activities. He tells a powerful story, using the metaphor of the 'Arctic Messenger' an imaginary being warning us all of the folly of ignoring Arctic environmental change. This book will be...
This accessible and engagingly written book describes how national and international scientific monitoring programmes brought to light our present und...
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228,66 zł |
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Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg: The Extraordinary Story of the Arctic 30
ISBN: 9781620971093 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Russia s oil rigs to move north. But one early September morning in 2013 thirty men and women from eighteen countries the crew of Greenpeace s Arctic Sunrise decide to draw a line in the ice and protest the drilling in the Arctic.
Thrown together by a common cause, they are determined to stop Putin and the oligarchs. But their protest is met with brutal force as Putin s commandos seize the Arctic Sunrise. Held under armed guard by masked men, they are charged with piracy and face fifteen years in Russia s nightmarish prison system. Ben Stewart who spearheaded the... Russia s oil rigs to move north. But one early September morning in 2013 thirty men and women from eighteen countries the crew of Greenpeace s Arct...
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117,15 zł |
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Disko Bay
ISBN: 9781910392188 / Angielski / Twarda / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection surveys the culture of arctic Greenland from prehistory to the present, with a focus on the hardships experienced by indigenous communities under colonial rule during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The poems address the tensions between modern life and traditional means of subsistence in the Arctic, and explore themes of cross-cultural communication, cultural and species extinction, landscape and climate change. Many of the poems use forms that are strongly linked to oral performance such as ballads and pantoums.
This collection surveys the culture of arctic Greenland from prehistory to the present, with a focus on the hardships experienced by indigenous commun...
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51,70 zł |
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Travels in Alaska (annotated)
ISBN: 9781519523808 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forty years ago John Muir wrote to a friend; "I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer. . . . Civilization and fever, and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me, have not dimmed my glacial eyes, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness." How gloriously he fulfilled the promise of his early manhood Fame, all unbidden, wore a path to his door, but he always remained a modest, unspoiled mountaineer. Kindred spirits, the greatest of his time, sought him out, even in his mountain cabin, and felt honored by his friendship.
Forty years ago John Muir wrote to a friend; "I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer. . . . Civilization and fever, and all the morbidness that has...
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41,03 zł |
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The Sea Book
ISBN: 9780993525902 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Sea Book describes journeys to the polar regions observing and documenting the environment through the help of entries both past and present. The sea plays a prominent part in our life whether viewed from the shore or experienced at first hand within the expanses of the ocean. John Kelly describes these moments and those of our imagination as he travels at sea and along the shorelines of the Antarctic and Arctic. John Kelly is an artist and writer whose work includes photography, drawing and the use of objects. The Sea Book describes journeys to the polar regions observing and documenting the environment through the help of entries both pa... |
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78,20 zł |
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On Thin Ice: An Epic Final Quest Into the Melting Arctic
ISBN: 9781493033676 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In March 2014, Eric Larsen and Ryan Waters set out to traverse nearly 500 miles across the melting Arctic Ocean, unsupported, from Northern Ellesmere Island to the geographic North Pole. Despite being one of the most cold and hostile environments on the planet, the Arctic Ocean has seen a steady and significant reduction of sea ice over the past seven years due to climate change. Because of this, Larsen's and Waters' trip-dubbed the "Last North Expedition"-is expected to be the last human-powered trek to the North Pole, ever. Filled with stunning, full-color photos and GPS maps plotting his...
In March 2014, Eric Larsen and Ryan Waters set out to traverse nearly 500 miles across the melting Arctic Ocean, unsupported, from Northern Ellesmere ...
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82,32 zł |
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Arctic Governance: Volume 1: Law and Politics
ISBN: 9781784539627 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Polar North is known to be home to large gas and oil reserves and its position holds significant trading and military advantages, yet the territorial boundaries of the region remain ill-defined.
The Polar North is known to be home to large gas and oil reserves and its position holds significant trading and military advantages, yet the territor...
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626,03 zł |
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Polar Bears: Level 2
ISBN: 9780008266592 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. National Geographic Primary Readers is a high-interest series of beginning reading books that have been developed in consultation with education experts. The books pair magnificent National Geographic photographs with lively text by skilled children's book authors across four reading levels.
National Geographic Primary Readers is a high-interest series of beginning reading books that have been developed in consultation with education exper...
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44,50 zł |
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The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change
ISBN: 9781517904975 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published: Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Allen Lane, 2015.
Originally published: Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Allen Lane, 2015.
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93,85 zł |
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Aiviq: Life with Walruses
ISBN: 9781772272338 / Angielski / Twarda / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,50 zł |
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4th Grade Geography: North and South Poles
ISBN: 9781682601594 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,82 zł |
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My Penguin Year: Life Among the Emperors
ISBN: 9780062971364 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,67 zł |
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Arctic Governance: Volume 1: Law and Politics
ISBN: 9780755601127 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Polar North is known to be home to large gas and oil reserves and its positionholds signifi cant trading and military advantages, yet the maritime boundaries of the region remain ill-defined. In the twenty-first century the Arctic is undergoing profound change. As the sea ice melts, a result of accelerating climate change, global governance has become vital. In this first of three volumes, the latest research and analysis from the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, the world's leading Arctic research body, is brought together. Arctic Governance: Law and Politics investigates the legal and...
The Polar North is known to be home to large gas and oil reserves and its positionholds signifi cant trading and military advantages, yet the maritime...
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177,32 zł |
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Every Penguin in the World: A Quest to See Them All
ISBN: 9781632172662 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every Penguin in the World tracks author-photographer Charles Bergman's forays around the southern hemisphere in his quest to see all 18 species of penguins in the world.
Every Penguin in the World tracks author-photographer Charles Bergman's forays around the southern hemisphere in his quest to see all 18 species of pe...
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120,81 zł |
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Kingdom of Frost: How the Cryosphere Shapes Life on Earth
ISBN: 9781771644549 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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117,15 zł |
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Arctic Governance: Volume 3: Norway, Russia and Asia
ISBN: 9780755636518 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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166,89 zł |
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South! (Annotated) LARGE PRINT: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
ISBN: 9781649220172 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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131,21 zł |
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