A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
ISBN: 9781463677589 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Negro Explorer at the North Pole By Matthew A Henson About his quest for the North with Admiral Peary. Receiving many honors posthumously, Matthew Henson was much overlooked throughout his entire career as an explorer. Though he traveled throughout the northern hemisphere and is acknowledged the first man to reach the North Pole, his accomplishments were overshadowed by his colleague, Commander Robert Perry. Henson faced and overcame many of the limitations and struggles inherent for African Americans at the time. Orphaned at a young age, Henson worked hard to earn his way from being...
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole By Matthew A Henson About his quest for the North with Admiral Peary. Receiving many honors posthumously, Matthew H...
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53,80 zł |
The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger/ Volume II / The Voyages of 1814, 1815 and 1816
ISBN: 9780904180923 / Angielski / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This second volume of William Scoresby's journals contains the unpublished accounts of his three voyages in the Esk in 1814-16. As before, these lengthy journals combine scientific records and social and religious comment as well as detailed descriptions of navigation and whaling. They also continue to demonstrate the competence and confidence of Scoresby which were evident from the moment he assumed command of the Resolution in 1811. However, each of the journals also shows the dangers inherent in what might otherwise seem to be routine annual sailings to the Greenland Sea in latitudes 78A...
This second volume of William Scoresby's journals contains the unpublished accounts of his three voyages in the Esk in 1814-16. As before, these lengt...
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674,31 zł |
Stories of Ships and the Sea
ISBN: 9783845713267 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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183,53 zł |
Stories of Ships and the Sea
ISBN: 9783954544158 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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120,57 zł |
An Incredible Journey: The Idlewild Expedition
ISBN: 9781479242795 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hillbilly landlubber Ben Gray and his sons launched a 55 hp boat near their ranch in Alberta. 2,000 miles with portages and groundings to the Arctic Ocean. Then west past Alaska to the Bering St and turned back North and East through the ice choked NW Passage to circumnavigate the world in 2005. From hurricanes to pirates to being arrested to meeting lovely people, it was An Incredible Journey.
Hillbilly landlubber Ben Gray and his sons launched a 55 hp boat near their ranch in Alberta. 2,000 miles with portages and groundings to the Arctic O...
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112,18 zł |
The German Arctic Expedition of 1869-1870
ISBN: 9783954541300 / Angielski / Miękka / 668 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die deutsche Expedition durch die Arktis in den Jahren 1869-1870 ist ein Meilenstein in der Arktisforschung. Unter der Fuhrung des Kapitans Karl Koldewey war seine Crew grossen Gefahren ausgesetzt und verloren auf ihrem Weg durch die zentralen Regionen der Arktis ihr Schiff, die "Hansa." Diese Expedition bedeutete auch einen Konkurrenzkampf zweier unterschiedlicher Schiffsgenerationen: Zwischen dem Segelschiff, der wahrend der Expedition zuruckgelassenen "Hansa" und der dampfbetriebenen "Germania." Bei diesem Buch handelt es sich um eine englischsprachige Ausgabe
Die deutsche Expedition durch die Arktis in den Jahren 1869-1870 ist ein Meilenstein in der Arktisforschung. Unter der Fuhrung des Kapitans Karl Kolde...
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403,40 zł |
Arctic Adventure: My Life in the Frozen North
ISBN: 9781626549999 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shortly after his death in 1957, The New York Times obituary of Peter Freuchen noted that "except for Richard E. Byrd, and despite his foreign beginnings, Freuchen was perhaps better known to more people in the United States than any other explorer of our time." During his lifetime Freuchen's remarkable adventures, related in his books, magazine articles, and films, made him a legend. In 1910, Freuchen and his friend and business partner, Knud Rasmussen, the renowned polar explorer, founded Thule-a Greenland Inuit trading post and village only 800 miles from the North Pole. ...Shortly after his death in 1957, The New York Times obituary of Peter Freuchen noted that "except for Richard E. Byrd, and despite his forei... |
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124,20 zł |
The German Arctic Expedition of 1869-1870
ISBN: 9783956100611 / Angielski / Miękka / 668 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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300,20 zł |
Der Hinkende Teufel Im Ostindischen Archipel Oder Memoiren Eines Wiener Arztes
ISBN: 9783846041185 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Es sind Anekdoten und Erlebnisse aus aller Welt, die der Wiener Arzt Josef Bechtinger in seinen Memoiren verarbeitet. Seiner Reise- und Abenteuerlust folgend, verschlagt es ihn nach Amerika und Asien, wo er fremde Kulturen kennen lernt und Freundschaften schliesst. Auf der anderen Seite muss er mit schweren personlichen Verlusten kampfen, kommen seine Frau und sein Kind doch bei dem Versuch, sie auf den anderen Kontinent nachzuholen, ums Leben. Bechtinger hat nie aufgegeben und sich stets allen Schwierigkeiten gestellt. Auf diese Weise zeichnen seine Memoiren das authentische Bild eines...
Es sind Anekdoten und Erlebnisse aus aller Welt, die der Wiener Arzt Josef Bechtinger in seinen Memoiren verarbeitet. Seiner Reise- und Abenteuerlust ...
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268,78 zł |
South: The Endurance Expedition
ISBN: 9780142437797 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole. But their initial optimism was short-lived as ice floes closed around their ship, gradually crushing it and marooning 28 men on the polar ice. Alone in the world's most unforgiving environment, Shackleton and his team began a brutal quest for survival. And as the story of their journey across treacherous seas and a wilderness of glaciers and snow fields unfolds, the scale of their courage and heroism becomes movingly clear.
As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pol...
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94,02 zł |
Facing the Frozen Ocean: One Man's Dream to Lead a Team Across the Treacherous North Atlantic
ISBN: 9780330427074 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Five British men in an open, rigid inflatable boat fighting for their lives in perhaps the most dangerous seas in the world.
Five British men in an open, rigid inflatable boat fighting for their lives in perhaps the most dangerous seas in the world.
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107,64 zł |
A Visitor's Guide to South Georgia: Second Edition
ISBN: 9780691156583 / Angielski / Spiralna / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the only illustrated guide specifically tailored to the needs of visitors to this remote and captivating part of the world, and it is the ideal book for armchair naturalists.
This is the only illustrated guide specifically tailored to the needs of visitors to this remote and captivating part of the world, and it is the i... |
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136,75 zł |
Harry's Arctic Heroes: Walking with the Wounded on the Expedition of a Lifetime
ISBN: 9780751547054 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In April 2011, four soldiers - each a veteran of recent conflicts, who suffered devastating injuries in the line of duty - set out on an extraordinary challenge: a two-hundred mile trek, unsupported, to the North Pole.
Joined by patron Prince Harry, the charity founders, a polar guide and a film crew, the team achieved their goal despite facing hurdles an able-bodied athlete would baulk at, and having seen their resilience tested to the limit. They returned with a story that proves strength of mind can be every bit as powerful as strength of body, and as an inspiration to us all. In April 2011, four soldiers - each a veteran of recent conflicts, who suffered devastating injuries in the line of duty - set out on an extraordinary...
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149,84 zł |
Journey to the Edge of the World
ISBN: 9780755319022 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The very hilarious and idiosyncraticBilly Connolly guides readersthrough his gripping adventures and some of the world's most dramatic landscapes in the vast wilderness of the Arctic The very hilarious and idiosyncraticBilly Connolly guides readersthrough his gripping adventures and some of the world's most dramatic landscapes i... |
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57,00 zł |
Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery: Including Researches and Discoveries on the Eastern Coast of West Greenland, Made in the Summer of
ISBN: 9781108041324 / Angielski / Miękka / 542 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Scoresby junior (1789 1857), explorer, scientist, and later Church of England clergyman, first travelled to the Arctic when he was just ten years old. The son of Arctic whaler and navigator William Scoresby of Whitby, he spent nearly every summer for twenty years at a Greenland whale fishery. He made significant discoveries in Arctic geography, meteorology, oceanography, and magnetism, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1824. First published in 1823, this book recounts Scoresby's voyage to Greenland in the summer of 1822 aboard the Baffin, a whaler of his own design. On...
William Scoresby junior (1789 1857), explorer, scientist, and later Church of England clergyman, first travelled to the Arctic when he was just ten ye...
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228,18 zł |
Fridtjof Nansen in the Frozen World: The Fram Expedition
ISBN: 9781410209832 / Angielski / Miękka / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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165,12 zł |
South!
ISBN: 9783955803544 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ernest H. Shackleton war ein britischer Polarforscher zu Zeiten des sogenannten Goldenen Zeitalters der Antarktisforschung in der Zeit um das 19. Jahrundert. Im Jahre 1914 brach Shackleton mit dem Schiff Endurance und einer 28-kopfigen Crew auf, mit dem Ziel, als erster die Antarktis zu durchqueren und zu ergrunden. Die Reise wurde jedoch gestoppt, als die Endurance auf Treibeis stiess und eingeschlossen wurde. Nach einiger Zeit des Hoffens musste die Mannschaft das Schiff zurucklassen und sich auf die Uberwinterung auf dem Eis vorbereiten. Es folgten Monate, in denen sie um ihr Uberleben...
Ernest H. Shackleton war ein britischer Polarforscher zu Zeiten des sogenannten Goldenen Zeitalters der Antarktisforschung in der Zeit um das 19. Jahr...
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223,91 zł |
First Voyage Round the World
ISBN: 9783943850277 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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389,94 zł |
Narrative of an Expedition to the East Coast of Greenland
ISBN: 9783943850529 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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273,27 zł |
The German Arctic Expedition of 1869-1870
ISBN: 9783943850659 / Angielski / Miękka / 670 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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457,24 zł |