epub |eng | 2015-12-13 | Author:Wilson McOrist [Wilson McOrist]

Notes 1. Richards, The Ross Sea Shore Party 2. Hayward diary, 1 October 1915 3. Joyce field diary, 1 October 1915 4. Mackintosh diary, 8 September 1915 5. Ibid., 21 ...

epub |eng | 2015-04-09 | Author:Matt Lewis

14 15:55 SATURDAY, 6 JUNE 1998 Where were the officers of the Sudur Havid as we were abandoning? I thought someone would yell orders, co-ordinate a safe evacuation, act as ...

epub |eng | 2009-07-22 | Author:Bill Streever [Streever, Bill]

It is January ninth and twenty below at the Anchorage airport, close to the record cold set in 1952. The ground hides under four feet of snow, with plowed piles ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Wendy Trusler & Carol Devine [Trusler, Wendy & Devine, Carol]

JANUARY 25, 1996 Made dinner tonight for base commander Zuniga, Doctor Rolando and Felipe the young heli pilot just in from Punta Arenas. A real home with running hot water, ...

epub |eng | 2015-04-08 | Author:David Hempleman-Adams

AIR I know I’ve made it. I’m somewhere above 41,000 feet, and no one has ever been higher in the open basket of a Rozier balloon, or any other sort ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Gretel Ehrlich

WILLIAM EDWARD PARRY was given the task of finding a passage to Asia by the British Admiralty. The Napoleonic wars in Europe had ended, and Trafalgar, having grown bored, asked ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Joanna Kavenna

PURITY IN THAT UNDEFILED BRIGHT THULE, THULE OF ETERNAL GAIN THERE WHERE THE SOUL SEES NEWLY FROM THE ISLES OF INATULA TO THE GOLDEN BOWERED BEULA. . . . IN ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-10 | Author:Farley Mowat

And so the first day of this story comes to an end. Beyond it lay the time when the snows came and the River of Men lay hidden under the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Mike Horn

5 The End of the Earth ON A SNOWY SUNDAY MORNING, I entered the empty streets of “Cam” as if I were walking into a ghost town. One building served ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-27 | Author:Aston, Felicity

Chapter Eight The Great Storm The inside of an Ilyushin is reassuringly Russian, with deep carpeted seats, tiny myopic portholes and veins of industrial wiring running along the inside walls. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-01-28 | Author:Kate Messner

Ranger growled low in his throat. The snake raised its twitching tail, and another angry buzz filled the air. The snake tasted the air again, then turned and slowly slithered ...

epub |eng | | Author:Philip Caputo

23. Alex invited us over for coffee—French-press coffee with cardamom, no less—and Dani performed with impressive dexterity, twirling a hoop around each shoulder, another around her waist, and a fourth ...

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 ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-05 | Author:Gerry Davis [Davis, Gerry]

'There is nothing we can do about any of those things.' Dyson, who had said the words almost to himself, suddenly remembered that he had spoken them to the astronaut's ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Cormac James

27th November She found him lying on her bed, in his boots, eyes closed. She set the cat down on the floor and instantly it leapt up onto the blankets, ...