epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Doug Macdougall

Figure 14.The graph that Milutin Milankovitch sent to Wladimir Köppen shows the “equivalent latitude” for 65° N in summer, based on the amount of solar energy received, for the past ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1988-02-01 | Author:Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

had been cheerfully sprinkled with dogwood and saxifrage near the wizard's castle, began more and more to sprout mugwort, Jousewort, fly-specked orchia, skunk cabbage, wax flowers and the deceptively demure ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Susan Casey

Wherever peppy earthquake action meets ocean, there will be giant waves. Which means not only Alaska but the entire North American west coast is poised to produce them. If you ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2003-05-12 | Author:Redmond O'Hanlon

SOMEONE TURNED the light on; Sean had turned the light on: “Up ye get, boys! Ye’ve had a whole eight hours! And the storm’s gone—there’s yer heavy swell up there ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-14 | Author:David Dobbs

4 Even as he was composing his Chile notes, Darwin was turning his mind west. The Beagle, having finished its laborious survey of the South American coast, was making ready ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-11 | Author:Philip Hoare

NEGRO SLAVERY ABOLISHED 1 AUGUST MDCCCXXXIV –although it faces another building, one that belies the city’s claim to manumission. Passing through the double doors with their polished brass fingerplates, I ...

mobi |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Carl Safina

By the start of the third week of June, one-third of the Gulf’s federal waters, 81,000 square miles, remain closed to fishing. And the Economist estimates that BP is on ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Peter Nichols

Sailing Route Across the Indain Ocean Two thousand miles to the east – 1,100 miles the other side of Cape Town, well into the Indian Ocean – Bernard Moitessier was ...

azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-07-16 | Author:Kirby, David [Kirby, David]

23 Tilly’s Willy One of John Jett’s biggest regrets in his life was that on that December day in 1995 when his best friend, Jeff, got fired from SeaWorld, he ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-05-05 | Author:David Abulafia

IV The Black Death has sometimes been seen as a natural check on the excessively rapid expansion of the economy of Europe and the Mediterranean lands in the high Middle ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

The Whisper of Necessity BEFORE THEY LEFT Henderson Island, Chase loaded a flat stone and an armful of firewood into each boat. That first evening back on the water, as ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Trevor Corson

In the kitchen, Zoran set a snapper on a cutting board in the sink under cold running water. He pointed to the poisonous fins along the back. “Don’t rub your ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-09-23 | Author:Sebastian Junger

GRAVEYARD OF THE ATLANTIC In a few days the El Dorado expedition went into the patient wilderness, that closed upon it like the sea closes over a diver. Long afterwards ...