Arctic

Reducere. A new baby brother is coming! What will Kirima do?Kirima's worried that her parents won't have time to spend with her anymore when the new baby arr...

Packed with more than 200 spectacular photographs, Canada is a stunning collection of images celebrating this beautiful country from Newfoundland a...

Publisher: Steerforth PressAuthor(s): Ejnar MikkelsenIllustration(s): 8 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

Reducere. 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 beg...

Traditionally thought of as the last great unspoiled territory on Earth, the Arctic is in reality home to some of the most contaminated people and ...

Reducere. From the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhabited A...

Reducere. What do you think of when you hear the words "Arctic" and "Antarctic"? Cold, frozen wastelands? Mountains of ice and snow, completely empty of life...

Reducere. When leading mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington was researching Quest for Adventure, his study of post-war adventure, he contacted Sir Robin Knox-John...

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DescriptionA detailed account of the Royal Navy's near fatal expedition into the polar regions in 1773--with the young Horatio Nelson on board.In t...

Reducere. The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic, Paperback

Once Nazi Germany had conquered Norway in 1940, just a handful of Gruppen flying the Bf 109 and Bf 110 fighters were able to shatter all opposition...

Reducere. A moving World War II memoir that uncovers a forgotten naval catastrophe. Ideal for readers of Evan Mawdsley, Max Hastings and Iain Ballantyne. On ...

Reducere. Arctic Heroes takes a poignant look at the fate of the Greenland sled dog. In Greenland, where the melting ice sheet is irrevocably disrupting the ...

Reducere. At the age of twenty-three, Deanne Burch accompanied her husband, Ernest "Tiger" Burch to the Inuit village of Kivalina, Alaska, a barrier island 2...

Publisher: Capstone Global Library LtdAuthor(s): Lisa M. Bolt SimonsNumber of pages: 32Collection: Deadly ExpeditionsPublication date: 2022Dimensio...

Reducere. Anna may be the smallest dog in the litter, but she's surely the most determined. In this incredible true story. Anna joins a dog team for a 2, 500...

Reducere. DescriptionArtemis Fowl is at boarding school in Iceland when he receives an urgent video email from Russia. It's a plea from his father, who has b...

John Rae is best known today as the first European to reveal the fate of the Franklin Expedition, yet the range of Rae's accomplishments is much gr...

Reducere. DescriptionSetting off in an overloaded canoe, they journeyed down the Yukon River and walked upstream into the remote Brooks Range to build a cabi...

Reducere. 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 begi...

Reducere. A digital solution for your classroom with features created with teachers and students in mind: - Perpetual license - 24 hour, 7 days a week access...

GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted. --Wall Street JournalThe riveting true story of the largest polar rescue missi...

In 1941, military operations were conducted by large formations along the northern coast of Scandinavia - for the first time in history of warfare....

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Mark LardasIllustration(s): Illustrated throughout with around 60 photos and at least 14pp of colour...

Filled with artifacts, drawings, maps, and historical photographs from the Peary MacMillan Arctic Museum collections, Peary's Arctic Quest provides...

Reducere. Eager to investigate rumors of land north of Alaska, Ernest deKoven Leffingwell and Ejnar Mikkelsen organized the 1906 Anglo American Polar Expedit...

DescriptionBlending meteorological history with the history of scientific cartography, Monmonier charts the phenomenon of lake-effect snow and expl...

Reducere. "Into the North Wind" chronicles Jill Homer's record-breaking bicycle ride across Alaska on the Iditarod Trail. Jill is one of those "accidental at...

Reducere. Children love to learn about animals The reason for this is because there are many types of animals in the world that look adorable, can be seen in...

Reducere. Larry Audlaluk has seen incredible changes in his lifetime. Born in northern Quebec, he relocated with his family to the High Arctic in the early 1...

A gripping thriller set in the haunting wilderness of snowy Lapland. Winner of seventeen international awards.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAu...

Reducere. An insider account of how scientists unraveled the mystery of the thawing ArcticIn the 1990s, researchers in the Arctic noticed that floating summe...

Arctic Mirrors is a vividly rendered history of circumpolar peoples in the Russian empire and the Russian mind.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Angus KonstamNumber of pages: 96Collection: CampaignPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 185 x 246 x 9C...

Reducere. For nearly a quarter century, the polar bears of Churchill were routinely run down and shot by the military, by residents and by conservation offic...

DescriptionThe must-have photography monograph of the year, this lavish oversized volume celebrates David Yarrow's unparalleled wildlife imagery. F...

DescriptionA highly illustrated study of the Petsamo-Kirkenes campaign, which saw Soviet naval infantry deployed in abundance against the elite Ger...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Peter (Oslo Centre for Urban and Landscape Studies, Norway) HemmersamIllustration(s): 47 bw illus...

As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention.

Reducere. "Taaqtumi" is an Inuktitut word that means "in the dark"--and these spine-tingling horror stories by Northern writers show just how dangerous darkn...

Digital media-GIFs, films, TED Talks, tweets, and more-have become integral to daily life and, unsurprisingly, to Indigenous people's strategies fo...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): E.C.H KeskitaloNumber of pages: 298Collection: Studies in International RelationsPublication date: 2011Di...

Reducere. All Greenlandic children know this: bears don't belong in a cage.Retired Greenlandic Police Constable David Maratse is sentenced to two years impri...

Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)Author(s): Ivan KolyshkinNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 127 x 204 x 21Cover type: Paperback / ...

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Reducere. John Rae's accomplishments, surpassing all nineteenth-century Arctic explorers, were worthy of honors and international fame. No explorer even appr...

The world is currently witnessing an Arctic Scramble as the major powers compete to demarcate and occupy Arctic territory. The region is known to b...

Leading Seaman Charlie Erswell saw much more than his fair share of action during the Second World War. He was present at the 1942 landing in North...

Two newly discovered ships which sank in the Arctic ice 170 years ago may hold clues to the fate of explorer, Captain Francis Crozier, who led the ...

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Nick PyensonIllustration(s): full-color illustrations throughoutNumber of pages: 48Publication date: 2022Dim...

May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth collects the private correspondence of the officers and sailors who set out in May 1845 on the Erebus and Terror ...

He and Sofia are not the old couple's only visitors that night - and soon he and Sofia will be running for their lives . ...and beneath the swirlin...

Publisher: University of Alberta PressNumber of pages: 444Collection: Occasional Publications SeriesPublication date: 2003Dimensions: 250 x 171 x 3...

Reducere. DescriptionBlubbery belugas, capering caribou, lingering ladybugs, rummaging ravens, and waiting walruses, all make an appearance in this beautiful...

Reducere. DescriptionHow the far North offered a different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imagination.European narratives of the Atlantic New Wo...

This is the second Rockfax guidebook to this spectacular and beautiful area, the first 2008 volume won the Banff Guidebook of the Year Award and pu...

Reducere. The Arctic of towering icebergs and midnight sun, of flaming auroras and endless winter nights, has long provoked flights of the imagination. Now, ...

Reducere. DescriptionBlubbery belugas, capering caribou, lingering ladybugs, rummaging ravens, and waiting walruses, all make an appearance in this beautiful...

Reducere. In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester, and the their five children, the oldest of whom was nine-years-old and the youngest, twins, barely one, pu...

Reducere. As a mythical creature, the whale has been responsible for many transformations in the world. It is an enchanting being that humans have long felt ...

This book deals with the current Arctic policy of Russia in its domestic and foreign dimensions in global epoch. It offers the first comprehensive ...

Reducere. An astonishing narrative of disaster and perseverance, The Last Voyage of the Karluk will thrill readers of adventure classics like Into Thin Air a...

Reducere. The Toddler's First 150 Animal Handbook introduces 10 categories of animals in English and Spanish. Included are pets, aquatic, forest, birds, bugs...

An illustrated visit to the tropical arctic of 205 million years ago when Greenland was green.Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): ...

At the end of a deadly bear hunt across the wilderness of Northern Sweden, the hunters are shaken by a horrifying discovery... Across in Kurravaara...

Reducere. The schooner Bowdoin was designed and built in 1921 in Maine under the direction of naval officer and explorer Donald MacMillan. She is the only Am...

In this literary tour de force, twice Booker shortlisted novelist Damon Galgut evokes the life and work of E. M. Forster, his travels to India, and...

Reducere. The Toddler's Trains, Planes, and Automobiles and Things That Go Handbook teaches your child all about transportation in a fun way. Included are ty...

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