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Bloody Falls of the Coppermine by Mckay Jenkins
epub |eng | 2005-06-12 | Author:Mckay Jenkins [Jenkins,McKay]

CHAPTER TEN As in all great narratives, history, geography, personal adventure and mysteries intertwine. There are misadventures, murder, and starvation, to be sure, but spiritual powers and every kind of ...
( Category: Americas June 13,2017 )
Ice Ghosts by Paul Watson
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-05-25 | Author:Paul Watson

WILLIAM “PADDY” GIBSON, an Irish transplant to the Arctic, was born in Kells Parish, County Meath, about forty miles from Dublin. In World War I, he served in the Imperial ...
( Category: World May 26,2017 )
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-03-12 | Author:Sebastian Barry [Sebastian Barry]

CHAPTER THIRTEEN NOTHING TOO TRICKY about dying for your country. It’s the easiest item on the menu. God knows the truth of it. Young Seth McCarthy he come up from ...
( Category: Military March 13,2017 )
Finding Franklin by Russell A. Potter
epub |eng | 2016-09-12 | Author:Russell A. Potter

Schwatka’s plan took advantage of the small size of his party, requiring only a modest amount of equipment beyond what could be obtained once they arrived; he planned to travel ...
( Category: World September 13,2016 )
Forgotten Footprints by John Harrison
epub |eng | 2012-04-10 | Author:John Harrison [John Harrison]

The season was growing late, and they were anxious to push south, leaving Laurie Island at noon to steam south west; by 21:00 they were laid to, in heavy ice. ...
( Category: Winter Sports April 11,2016 )
The Antarctic: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Dodds Klaus
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-25 | Author:Dodds, Klaus [Dodds, Klaus]

* * * India and the ‘question of Antarctica’ We are not challenging anybody’s rights there [in Antarctica]. But it has become important that the matter be considered by the ...
( Category: Social Sciences January 8,2016 )
Irresistible North by Andrea Di Robilant
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-23 | Author:Andrea Di Robilant [Robilant, Andrea Di]

AFTER HIS murder, Malise’s estates went to his only surviving aunt, Isabella Sinclair—Henry’s mother. To make sure that he would inherit all Malise’s possessions at Isabella’s death, Henry then convinced ...
( Category: Americas June 14,2015 )
Hoosh: Roast Penguin, Scurvy Day, and Other Stories of Antarctic Cuisine by Jason C. Anthony
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-11-02 | Author:Jason C. Anthony [Anthony, Jason C.]

HAIR PIE The Australians had three IGY bases, including the continent's first permanent base, Mawson Station, which was built just a year ahead of McMurdo in 1954. Phillip Law, the ...
( Category: Regional & International June 12,2015 )
Polar Wives by Kari Herbert
epub |eng | 2012-04-06 | Author:Kari Herbert

12. Eva Nansen | A Man in a Million Poor him, he will come too late. —EVA NANSEN On October 10, 1893, Fridtjof Nansen came down with a fever. Confined ...
( Category: Winter Sports March 21,2015 )
The Man Who Ate His Boots by Anthony Brandt
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Anthony Brandt [Brandt, Anthony]

The polar sea was not open after all. They would not be going anywhere until the ice broke up. So began yet another minuet with the ice. It retreated from ...
( Category: Americas March 3,2015 )
Final Voyage A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season
mobi | | | Author:Peter Nichols

( Category: Engineering January 6,2015 )
Cherry by Sara Wheeler
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Sara Wheeler

After a glorious rail journey on his own up through Harbin to Siberia and across central Russia, Cherry arrived home on 10 May to find The Times sprouting with stories ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 27,2014 )
1912 by Chris Turney
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Turney [Turney, Chris]

Not six weeks after the Tokyo parade for Shirase’s men, Emperor Meiji died and the nation went into mourning. The emperor who had heralded a new start for Japan had ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica December 27,2014 )
In the Kingdom of Ice-The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
mobi |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Hampton Sides

AROUND MIDNIGHT ON June 11, something momentous did happen. While most of the men slept away the bright polar night, the ice opened with a ragged crack, and the Jeannette ...
( Category: Transportation December 19,2014 )
Sea of Glory by Philbrick Nathaniel
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-05-06 | Author:Philbrick, Nathaniel [Philbrick, Nathaniel]

On Friday, July 31, Reynolds was aboard the Vincennes, at anchor beside the Peacock off Vanua Levu, talking with William May. May was at work on a chart of the ...
( Category: Americas November 6,2014 )

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