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We're Doomed. Now What? by Roy Scranton
epub |eng | 2018-07-17 | Author:Roy Scranton

The dream I had of Mutanabbi Street was a dream that life could win out over death, as the poet Naseer had said a few days ago: a faith that ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 6,2018 )
Antarctica: the Battle for the Seventh Continent by Abdel-Motaal Doaa;
epub |eng | | Author:Abdel-Motaal, Doaa;

THE MOON AND OTHER CELESTIAL BODIES The Moon Treaty was negotiated to create a more specific regime for the Moon than the Outer Space Treaty. Article 1 of the latter ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 18,2018 )
Forgotten Sacrifice by Michael G Walling
epub |eng | | Author:Michael G Walling

Blenheims were used as both medium-range bombers and night fighters. They carried a crew of three and were armed with four .303 machine guns. Known as the “Stringbag” by its ...
( Category: Military July 18,2018 )
Finding Franklin by Potter Russell A.;
epub |eng | 2016-07-08 | Author:Potter, Russell A.;

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 July 9,2018 )
An Unsung Hero by Michael Smith
epub |eng | 2009-06-23 | Author:Michael Smith [Smith, Michael]

Crean was also a popular member of the party and Wright described him as ‘very good natured’. Debenham remembered that his ‘quips and brogue kept the mess-deck part of the ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers June 23,2018 )
The Ice Passage by Brian Payton
epub |eng | 2009-05-15 | Author:Brian Payton [Payton, Brian]

An extraordinary hush descends. No one speaks more than necessary. The crew seeks to relieve its mounting frustration through another day of blasting. This work endows the men with a ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica May 15,2018 )
Red Sky in the Morning by Michael Pearson
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-05-31 | Author:Michael Pearson

CHAPTER 6 ‘STEER FOR THE SOUND OF THE GUNS’ At 11.15 Kapitän zur See Stange altered course eastwards to 090° to take Lützow away from the snow squall, and out ...
( Category: Military April 21,2018 )
Early Inuit Studies by Igor Krupnik
epub |eng | 2016-02-16 | Author:Igor Krupnik [Krupnik, Igor]

In this stifling atmosphere, Menovshchikov, compared with many of his peers at the Leningrad Institute of Linguistics, was a respectable and well-disposed man. He worked hard; in fact, all his ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching April 19,2018 )
Hitler's Arctic War by Mann Chris
epub |eng | 2016-04-17 | Author:Mann, Chris

In spite of British naval superiority, the vessels of the Royal Navy were unable to do much to hamper the iron ore traffic that was now coming from the repaired ...
( Category: Military April 17,2018 )
The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame by Joanna Kafarowski
epub |eng | 2017-10-11 | Author:Joanna Kafarowski

Route of Louise Arner Boyd 1937 Expedition. Chapter Seven An Obsessive Pursuit What is the strange attraction of these polar regions … so strong and enduring that once having left ...
( Category: World April 8,2018 )
Ships of Wood and Men of Iron by Gerard Kenney
epub |eng | 2005-04-06 | Author:Gerard Kenney

SOURCE: OTTO SVERDRUP’S NEW LAND The Fram, frozen in the ice, winter of 1901–02. While they were waiting, the crew sawed and blasted a channel south of the ship. Only ...
( Category: World April 6,2018 )
The Place Where You Go to Listen by John Luther Adams
epub |eng | 2009-03-19 | Author:John Luther Adams

A Composer’s Journal Part III—In The Place MAY 27, 2005 We’re back on the tundra. Once again Cindy and I have met Gordon at our favorite spot in the Alaska ...
( Category: Americas March 19,2018 )
To the Ends of the Earth by John V. H. Dippel
epub |eng | | Author:John V. H. Dippel

When thirty-two-year-old Lieutenant John C. Colwell of the US Navy reached the partially collapsed tent on rock-strewn Cape Sabine, he took out a knife and slit the canvas so he ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 18,2018 )
Ocean Notorious by Matt Vance
epub |eng | | Author:Matt Vance

Nansen’s Fram in Arctic pack ice, 1894. Glenys’s iceberg, rolling slowly on a dull grey ocean, is whiter than you could ever imagine white to be. Bergs get their colour ...
( Category: Winter Sports March 17,2018 )
North Pole Legacy by S. Allen Counter
epub |eng | 2018-01-30 | Author:S. Allen Counter

When I arrived in Cambridge, an autumn snow had given the old Harvard Yard a picture-postcard beauty. The branches of the huge elm trees strained from the thick, cottonlike snow, ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 15,2018 )

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