Polar Regions
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2000-11-02 | Author:Lennard Bickel

Eight hours after Ninnis was killed—at nine in the evening of December 14—they pulled with the dogs along the old tracks until they came to the rise that would hide ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica November 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-27 | Author:Sprague Theobald & Allan Kreda [Theobald, Sprague]

CHAPTER 11 STUCK I was stunned. Peter’s email had literally knocked the wind out of me. It felt as though I was watching a 1950s B-movie with terrible special effects, ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-24 | Author:Sir Ernest Shackleton

* * * CHAPTER X ACROSS SOUTH GEORGIA The sun rose in the sky with every appearance of a fine day, and we grew warmer as we toiled through the ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers October 14,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-05-18 | Author:Blair Braverman

CHAPTER SEVEN “HEYYY,” SAID HELGE JENSEN, ON THE phone. “I’m going to build a fire tonight and call some folks. There’s some Muslims coming, some Polacks, and we’ve got dryfish ...
( Category: Hiking & Camping October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-24 | Author:Wilkinson, Alec [Wilkinson, Alec]

32 On July 24, for the first time in two years, they saw something other than “that never-ending white line of the horizon”—land. “We had almost given up our belief ...
( Category: Transportation October 12,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1998-11-03 | Author:The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

On Elephant Island The James Caird, Dudley Docker, and Stancomb Wills safely ashore at Cape Valentine, Elephant Island. The men pull the Caird to higher ground; two figures, one in ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica September 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Will Steger

QUITTING IS NOT AN OPTION NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 1, DAY 98 For the past two days we’ve been paralleling the tallest mountains in Antarctica; thirteen- to fourteen-thousand-foot brutes with walls of ...
( Category: Winter Sports September 22,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1986-01-01 | Author:Barry Lopez [Lopez, Barry]

Areas of year-round open water in the Canadian Arctic. Adapted from Ian Stirling and Holly Cleator, Polynyas in the Canadian Arctic. One cannot consider polynyas, of course, without recalling images ...
( Category: Polar Regions September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 1997-09-04 | Author:Sara Wheeler [Sara Wheeler]

CHAPTER NINE Igloos and Nitroglycerine I don’t really mind science – I just seem to feel better when it’s not around. Observed on latrine wall, Central West Antarctica deep field ...
( Category: Winter Sports September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-09-01 | Author:Caroline Alexander [Alexander, Caroline]

On Elephant Island The James Caird, Dudley Docker, and Stancomb Wills safely ashore at Cape Valentine, Elephant Island. The men pull the Caird to higher ground; two figures, one in ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 1998-05-12 | Author:McCarthy, Cormac [McCarthy, Cormac]

Sure. All hell's goin to bust loose. That's right. That particular horse aint even seen you yet. Oren jerked up his elbows and drew back in alarm from his own ...
( Category: Westerns August 30,2017 )
mobi | | 2011-01-08 | Author:Cormac - Border Trilogy 03 Mccarthy [Mccarthy, Cormac - Border Trilogy 03]

III WHEN HE CROSSED at the top of the draw he smelled what the horse had been smelling. A reek of carrion wafted up on some vector of the cooling ...
( Category: Westerns August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:Mary Pope Osborne [Osborne, Mary Pope]

The sides of your nose and ears are made out of cartilage. Cartilage feels like bone, but it’s not as hard. Because cartilage is more flexible, sharks can turn quickly ...
( Category: Animals August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2001-10-09 | Author:Pierre Berton [Berton, Pierre]

4 Failed heroes The eleven-year search for the lost ships elevated Sir John Franklin to the pantheon of Arctic sainthood. To the New York Times, he was “one of the ...
( Category: World August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1998-05-12 | Author:Cormac McCarthy [McCarthy, Cormac]

Sure. All hell's goin to bust loose. That's right. That particular horse aint even seen you yet. Oren jerked up his elbows and drew back in alarm from his own ...
( Category: Westerns August 26,2017 )