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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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109,46 zł |
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Deutschland im Stillen Ozean: Samoa, Karolinen, Marshall-Inseln, Marianen, Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land, Bismarck-Archipel und Salomo-Inseln
ISBN: 9783957001115 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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126,77 zł |
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Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898-1899: A Narrative of the Voyage of the Belgica Among Newly Discovered Lands and Over an Unknown Sea about the
ISBN: 9781108076746 / Angielski / Miękka / 658 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this illustrated 1900 publication, Frederick Cook (1865-1940) gives a detailed account of his experiences on the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, the first to endure the harsh winter of the Antarctic. The goal of the expedition was scientific discovery, and Cook, the ship's doctor, tells an engaging story of 'new human experience in a new, inhuman world of ice'. Boarding the Belgica in Rio de Janeiro, he joined a crew that included Roald Amundsen, who would later lead a Norwegian expedition to the South Pole. Cook describes the challenging conditions in the Antarctic Circle, where the ship...
In this illustrated 1900 publication, Frederick Cook (1865-1940) gives a detailed account of his experiences on the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, the ...
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407,58 zł |
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
ISBN: 9780465062881 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed between two ice floes. With no options left, Shackleton and a...
In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharte...
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87,53 zł |
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Reise Um Die Erde Durch Nord-Asien Und Die Beiden Oceane in Den Jahre 1828, 1829 Und 1830
ISBN: 9783845703176 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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287,34 zł |
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South!
ISBN: 9781909612617 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ernest Shackleton sailed to the South Pole as the First World War broke out in Europe, intent on making the first ever trans-Antarctic crossing. i]South /i] is Shackleton's first-hand account of the epic expedition, which he described as the last great journey on earth.During the journey, their ship, the Endurance, became trapped by ice and was crushed, forcing the men to survive in and escape from one of the world's most hostile environments. With no hope of rescue, Shackleton and four others set sail in a small open boat on a 600-mile crossing to South Georgia. Shipwrecked on the...
Ernest Shackleton sailed to the South Pole as the First World War broke out in Europe, intent on making the first ever trans-Antarctic crossing. i]So...
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51,82 zł |
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The Lands of Silence: A History of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration
ISBN: 9781108076876 / Angielski / Miękka / 612 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir Clements R. Markham (1830-1916) had succumbed to smoke after accidentally igniting his bedclothes while reading by candlelight; the task of completing this history therefore fell to his friend and fellow geographer F. H. H. Guillemard (1852-1933), who published it in 1921. In the course of his long career, Markham had sailed to the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin, jeopardised his job in the India Office by joining the British attempt to reach the North Pole in 1875-6, and served as president of the Royal Geographical Society, sending Robert Falcon Scott on his first expedition to...
Sir Clements R. Markham (1830-1916) had succumbed to smoke after accidentally igniting his bedclothes while reading by candlelight; the task of comple...
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395,93 zł |
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A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World - Volume I
ISBN: 9781511657983 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World - Volume I" from James Cook. British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy (1728-1779).
"A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World - Volume I" from James Cook. British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal ...
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86,89 zł |
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A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World - Volume II
ISBN: 9781511658126 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World - Volume II" from James Cook. British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy (1728-1779).
"A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World - Volume II" from James Cook. British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Roya...
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82,30 zł |
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Deutschland im Stillen Ozean
ISBN: 9783846081303 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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321,36 zł |
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Think South: How We Got Six Men and Forty Dogs Across Antarctica
ISBN: 9780873519885 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does it take to move forty dogs, three sleds, twenty tons of food and gear, and six men from all over the world across nearly four thousand of the coldest miles on earth? Cathy de Moll, the executive director of the 1990 International Trans-Antarctica Expedition, introduces the wild cast of characters who made it happen, on the ice and off: leaders Will Steger and Jean-Louis Etienne, who first met accidentally, on the way to the North Pole; Valery Skatchkov, the Soviet bureaucrat who supplied a "hot" Russian airplane; Yasue Okimoto, who couldn't bear to leave headquarters in Minnesota...
What does it take to move forty dogs, three sleds, twenty tons of food and gear, and six men from all over the world across nearly four thousand of th...
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109,24 zł |
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My Estonia 3: What Happened?
ISBN: 9789949556106 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of a man looking for his way. New York did not satisfy his soul, so he moved to Estonia, with his crazy wife, a kid, and six suitcases. Within 24 hours he found a home and had to learn how to make a fire. It did not satisfy his soul for long. Soon he had a house with four furnaces, and was making fires around the clock.
His crazy Estonian wife started a publishing house that turned out well. Too well. He decided to become an academic. It did not satisfy him for long, but at least he met a real elf who inspired him. Then he decided to dabble in diplomacy. It did not feel... This is the story of a man looking for his way. New York did not satisfy his soul, so he moved to Estonia, with his crazy wife, a kid, and six suitcas...
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104,76 zł |
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The Iceland Watch: A Land That Thinks Outwards and Forwards
ISBN: 9781861514721 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With a population of just 329,000 (barely more than Nottingham), Iceland is the most thinly-populated country in Europe, and 80% of it is uninhabited. Despite this, in the 1100 years since humans first settled there, the Icelanders have built a remarkably resourceful, diverse and robust community - and they have never had to go to war. In fact, in 2013 the United Nations ranked Iceland the 13th most developed country in the world. Professor Gisli Thorsteinsson is Professor of Education in Reykjavik, while Dr David Whittaker is a retired academic specializing in geopolitics. The two authors...
With a population of just 329,000 (barely more than Nottingham), Iceland is the most thinly-populated country in Europe, and 80% of it is uninhabited....
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67,87 zł |
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Fifty Years Below Zero
ISBN: 9781590483602 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brower had left San Francisco with the intention of making a short dash north on a whaling ship bound for the mythic Arctic Circle. Adventure had a way of following Charlie Brower. His initial landing turned into a fifty-year long ice-bound lifestyle. Once he stepped off the whaler and back onto dry, albeit frozen land, Brower took a job as master of the whaling station. But, though commerce brought him north, it was the people that helped keep him there for Charlie soon became fast friends with the native Inuit people. They taught him how to hunt seals on the ice, caribou on the tundra,... Brower had left San Francisco with the intention of making a short dash north on a whaling ship bound for the mythic Arctic Circle. Adventure had a... |
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131,36 zł |
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A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice
ISBN: 9781942658344 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Very few people have spent as much time as William E. Glassley in such deep wilderness. So it would behoove us to pay attention even if he had not brought back such a fascinating, lovely, and useful set of observations. This is a remarkable book." --Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Oil and Honey "The profound mystery of our living Earth saturates this memorable book." --John Elder, coeditor of The Norton Book of Nature Writing and author of Picking Up the Flute Greenland, one of the last truly wild places, contains a treasure...
"Very few people have spent as much time as William E. Glassley in such deep wilderness. So it would behoove us to pay attention even if he had not br...
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67,37 zł |
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I Am Inuit
ISBN: 9783716518397 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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218,70 zł |
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The Voyage of Captain Bellingshausen to the Antarctic Seas, 1819-1821: Translated from the Russian Volume I
ISBN: 9781409414575 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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199,15 zł |
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The Voyage of Captain Bellingshausen to the Antarctic Seas, 1819-1821: Translated from the Russian Volume II
ISBN: 9781409414582 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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747,02 zł |
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Henrik Saxgren: Ultima Thule
ISBN: 9783775744263 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Life at the northern end of the world: a unique piece of photojournalism in a photobook you won't forget
Life at the northern end of the world: a unique piece of photojournalism in a photobook you won't forget
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138,29 zł |
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The North Pole
ISBN: 9781530695416 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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45,93 zł |
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