Arctic & Antarctica
epub |eng | 2019-10-10 | Author:Sean Brock

Oven-Roasted Tomatoes Serves 4 as a side 1 pound heirloom plum tomatoes, cut lengthwise in half 4 garlic cloves, quartered lengthwise 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil Kosher salt and freshly ...
( Category: Southern March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:David Nabhan

Saturnian moon, Prometheus, discovered in 1980 (NASA). Chapter Eleven 4.5 Quintillion Joules Joseph Stalin can be faulted for any number of terrible shortcomings. That’s probably the kindest way to describe ...
( Category: Geophysics March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:John Dunmore

13. DUMONT D’URVILLE, NOVELIST 1835–36 The d’Urvilles settled down to quiet family life at La Juliade, the modest country residence Adèle had bought a few years earlier. Jules told a ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 11,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-03-19 | Author:DAVID WRAGG

Chapter 12 Changing Tactics Stalin simply assumed that his allies had sufficient ships, whether warships or merchantmen, to pursue the war. He cared little about the problems faced by the ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-01 | Author:Beau Riffenburgh

10 Abandoned When Mawson sent the message to Davis, asking him to return to Cape Denison and pick up the small party still there, he was not the only one ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-09 | Author:Ernest Schofield

The survivors at Barentsberg needed help urgently, and the only way to provide it was by air lift. There was no possibility of a landing until one of the fjords ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-26 | Author:W. J. Gordon [Gordon, W. J.]

ASCENDING THE YUKON On the 15th they reached Nulato, six hundred miles from the mouth, where they spent the winter. Here they found a curious method of fishing practised all ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica February 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 1989-05-26 | Author:Michael Palin [Palin, Michael]

Day 42 5 November At 5.30 Ron wakes me with a coffee. Counting six days pre-filming in London this is our 48th day together and our last. Nigel, Julian and ...
( Category: Performing Arts December 20,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2017-01-10 | Author:Garth Walpole & Russell Potter

Figure 19: Irving’s grave as depicted in “Overland to Starvation Cove” (Barr 1987: 83) (author’s collection). Schwatka stated the skull was found outside the grave’s broken walls but appeared to ...
( Category: World January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-05 | Author:Lawrence Paterson [Paterson, Lawrence]

Fired two torpedoes at a damaged tanker in Sokhumi. Depth charges. Tanker was 7,000 GRT, loaded or flooded, sea force 1, depth-setting 5.5 meters with magnetic firing pistol. Two hits ...
( Category: Military December 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Garth James Cameron

Chapter Ten Learning to Fly: Ciampino February–March 1926 Riiser-Larsen was the only one of the Norwegians qualified to fly an airship, and even he had limited experience of the N1 ...
( Category: World December 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rorke Bryan

Figure 8.15 SY Polaris built at Sandefjord in 1911 for the De Gerlache-Christensen consortium and subsequently sold to Sir Ernest Shackleton and renamed Endurance. (COURTESY OF THE DE GERLACHE ARCHIVES) ...
( Category: Polar Regions December 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-29 | Author:David Grann

Parked amid a sea of ice. As the men ate, they talked about the relatively warm weather—the temperature had reached fourteen degrees. Adams delivered the evening broadcast, reporting that they ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers November 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Michael Palin

* * * — Although Erebus and Terror had been refitted by the end of July, Ross had to stay in these bleak and stormy surroundings until the next magnetic-term ...
( Category: Winter Sports October 31,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Geoffrey Wolff [Wolff, Geoffrey]

The Aquidneck (Photo credit 7.1) 1 In his Maritime History of Maine, William Hutchinson Rowe notes, “Very queer specimens were often brought aboard by the crimps. Three of the crew ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 12,2018 )