Arctic & Antarctica
epub |eng | 2016-05-11 | Author:Lawrence Paterson

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 August 23,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2001-01-19 | Author:Valerian Albanov

ALEXANDRA LAND JUNE 28 I had to neglect my diary for two full days because I had neither the time nor the peace and quiet I needed to record my ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica August 19,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Johnson, Charles W. [Johnson, Charles W.]

FIGURE 60 Ready to head out. Under spectacular fjord cliffs, a team prepares to take boxed-up supplies out, probably to set up a depot as support for later, longer trips. ...
( Category: Transportation August 16,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-01-29 | Author:Richard Parry

RETREAT And now there came both mist and snow. And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald. —SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, ”THE RIME OF ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica August 14,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-07-21 | Author:William Battersby

( Category: Travelers & Explorers July 23,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1960-01-02 | Author:Alfred Lansing [Lansing, Alfred]

( Category: World July 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-28 | Author:Smith, Michael [Smith, Michael]

Shackleton at his old school, Dulwich College, July 1909. Shackleton was an undistinguished scholar but made a triumphant visit for a prize-giving ceremony after returning from the Nimrod expedition. COURTESY: ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers July 9,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Charles Emmerson [Emmerson, Charles]

Moretti’s obelisk, meanwhile, was delayed year to year. Three years after the centenary had passed, in 1913, it amounted to no more than some foundations in the middle of the ...
( Category: World June 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Owen Beattie

( Category: World June 29,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-14 | Author:Alfred Lansing

Chapter One The first few minutes were crucial - and they were maddening. The oarsmen did their best to pull together, but they were clumsy and out of practice, and ...
( Category: World June 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:Peter FitzSimons

11 December 1911, Adelaide, home of the Delprats, Paquita receives a letter Such a pleasure! Even though her Douglas is now well on his way to Antarctica, before leaving Hobart ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers June 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-02-01 | Author:Michael Smith [Smith, Michael]

Many years later, Gran would fondly recall the Irishman’s substantial presence and stature at that time in the hut at Cape Evans. Crean clearly left a big impression on the ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica June 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-06-17 | Author:Melanie McGrath [McGrath, Melanie]

The high winds break open the ice and send the liberated sea into whirling whitecaps. One feature of the ice around Ellesmere is its mobility. The pack ice rarely stabilises ...
( Category: Americas June 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-15 | Author:Nicholas Johnson [Johnson, Nicholas]

( Category: Winter Sports June 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Kelly Tyler-Lewis

On March 16, Mackintosh lay in the tent. Eight days before, he had watched the party plod north until they disappeared and he was alone. The worst of it was ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers June 17,2017 )