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There Is No Planet B by Mike Berners-Lee
azw3, pdf |eng | 2019-02-27 | Author:Mike Berners-Lee [Berners-Lee, Mike]

How can these essential investments be funded? Every divestment liberates an investment opportunity elsewhere. A carbon tax could also produce a massive fund. In 2013, global investment in fossil fuels ...
( Category: Environmental Science February 20,2020 )
Relics of the Franklin Expedition: Discovering Artifacts from the Doomed Arctic Voyage of 1845 by Garth Walpole & Russell Potter
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 )
Ordeal by Ice by Rorke Bryan
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 )
The White Darkness by David Grann
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 )
The Outpost of the Lost by David L. Brainard
epub |eng | 2018-07-02 | Author:David L. Brainard

December 5th. A gale broke suddenly on us at 3 a.m. It subsided at noon and the sky cleared beautifully, but in the evening the wind rose again with greater ...
( Category: Winter Sports September 8,2018 )
On Call in the Arctic by Thomas J. Sims
epub |eng | 2018-08-23 | Author:Thomas J. Sims

Juliette’s cervix was almost completely dilated, so something had to be filling the lower pelvis making delivery imminent. Yet I couldn’t tell what it was or how the baby was ...
( Category: Winter Sports September 8,2018 )
Dark Voyage by Swift Helen Susan
epub |eng | 2014-06-13 | Author:Swift, Helen Susan

Chapter Fourteen JAN MAYEN LAND JUNE 1914 I haled me a woman from the street, Shameless, but, oh. So fair! I bade her sit in the model's seat, And I ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 8,2018 )
Rethinking Greenland and the Arctic in the Era of Climate Change by Frank Sejersen
epub |eng | | Author:Frank Sejersen [Frank Sejersen]

Even though Feenberg finds a footing in such a deterministic stand, based on substantive theory, he does not write off human agency, choice or the will to transform the goal-horizon ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 3,2018 )
Penguins and Antarctica by Mary Pope Osborne
epub |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Mary Pope Osborne [Osborne, Mary Pope]

Blue Whale Blue whales are the biggest animals ever … bigger than any known dinosaur. They have the loudest voices as well. The noise of a blue whale makes a ...
( Category: Polar Regions July 23,2018 )
The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness by James Campbell
epub |eng | 2005-09-13 | Author:James Campbell [Campbell, James]

CHAPTER 7 Back-to-Nature Boys In 1975, when Heimo Korth left Wisconsin, leaving behind everything and everybody he knew, he was answering a universally familiar call—the yearning to escape home. When ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology July 19,2018 )
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 )
Rowing to Latitude by Jill Fredston
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-21 | Author:Jill Fredston [Fredston, Jill]

It is easy to be misled by the Beaufort Sea into assuming that few people have ever before stood on its shores. Harsh weather and incessant wind have shaped country ...
( Category: Specific Groups June 23,2018 )
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 )
Tip of the Iceberg by Mark Adams
epub |eng | 2018-05-15 | Author:Mark Adams

* * * — If you were to take a map of the Pacific Ocean and trace a rough horseshoe-shaped line starting in New Zealand, jogging left through Indonesia, then ...
( Category: Travel Writing May 15,2018 )

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