Forgotten Footprints Lost Stories In The Discovery Of
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Forgotten Footprints
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Author : John Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Parthian Books
Release Date : 2012-05-01
Forgotten Footprints written by John Harrison and has been published by Parthian Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-01 with Travel categories.
Forgotten Footsteps won Creative Non-Fiction Wales Book of the Year 2013. Following Wales' Book of the Year Award 2011 winning Cloud Road, comes Forgotten Footprints, a history of the Antarctic Peninsula, South Shetland Islands and the Weddell Sea, the most visited places in Antarctica. In 12 years John has visited over 40 times and guides and lectures on adventure cruise ships. He delivers a selection of highly readable accounts of the merchantmen, navy men, sealers, whalers, and aviators who, with scientists and adventurers drew the first ghostly maps of the white continent.
Forgotten Footprints Lost Stories In The Discovery Of
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Author : John HARRISON
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Forgotten Footprints Lost Stories In The Discovery Of written by John HARRISON and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
Antarctica
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Author : Doaa Abdel-Motaal
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2016-09-28
Antarctica written by Doaa Abdel-Motaal and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-28 with History categories.
The thawing Antarctic continent offers living space and marine and mineral resources that were previously inaccessible. This book discusses how revisiting the Antarctic Treaty System and dividing up the continent preemptively could spare the world serious conflict. The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements—collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS)—regulate the seventh continent, which is the only continent without a native human population. The main treaty within the ATS came into force in 1961 and suspended all territorial claims in Antarctica. The Antarctic Environmental Protocol followed in 1998 and prohibited any minerals exploitation in the continent. With this prohibition up for review in 2048, this book asks whether the Antarctic Treaty can continue to protect Antarctica. Doaa Abdel-Motaal—an expert on environmental issues who has traveled through the Arctic and Antarctic—explains that the international community must urgently turn its attention to examining how to divide up the thawing continent in a peaceful manner. She discusses why the Antarctic Treaty is unlikely to be an adequate measure in the face of international competition for invaluable resources in the 21st century. She argues that factors such as global warming, the growth in climate refugees that the world is about to witness, and the increasingly critical quest for energy resources will make the Antarctic continent a highly sought-after objective. Readers will come to appreciate that what has likely protected Antarctica so far was not the Antarctic Treaty but the continent's harsh climate and isolation. With Antarctica potentially becoming habitable only a few decades from now, revisiting the Antarctic Treaty in favor of an orderly division of the continent is likely to be the best plan for avoiding costly conflict.
Svalbard
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Author : Andreas Umbreit
language : en
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Release Date : 2013
Svalbard written by Andreas Umbreit and has been published by Bradt Travel Guides this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Travel categories.
A new edition of the most in-depth guide available to the most remote area of the Scandinavian Arctic, from ends-of-the-earth wilderness adventures to fascinating insight into the flora, fauna and natural landscapes. The perfect guide to the perfect bucket-list destination.
Svalbard
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Author : Roger Norum
language : en
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Release Date : 2018-05-03
Svalbard written by Roger Norum and has been published by Bradt Travel Guides this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-03 with Travel categories.
The Bradt guide to Svalbard (Spitsbergen), including Franz Josef Land and Jan Mayen, is a unique, standalone guidebook to this evocative Arctic archipelago, a place that is plunged into darkness for four months each year and where there are 4,000 snow scooters for a population of just 2,500. This new sixth edition has been thoroughly updated throughout and offers new material on everything from adventure tours to accommodation, environmental change to restaurants. Also covered are the restoration of Barentsburg and the opening of Svalbard's historic mines to visitors. Newly updated and amended, this edition reflects important recent changes in the archipelago, making it the perfect guide to a quintessential bucket-list destination. Possibly the most remote destination in the developed world, Svalbard is as off the beaten track as you can get in Europe today. A destination where there are more polar bears than people, Svalbard is the planet's most northerly settled land and the top (if not the end) of the world. It was on and around Svalbard that most of David Attenborough' Frozen Planet was filmed. A trip to Svalbard easily lends itself to notching up geographic superlatives (most northerly kebab, most northerly souvenir shop, etc) and adventurous travellers seek out experiences such as husky driving and hikes across the permafrost, charmed by the island law that requires everyone to carry a rifle anywhere outside of Longyearbyen, a constant reminder of Svalbard's 3,000-strong polar bear population. The main tourist period falls in Svalbard's brief summer, from June to August, when it's light around the clock and not very cold. However, increasingly popular for winter sports - especially because the next few years will enjoy unusually high Northern Lights activity - are the so-called 'light winter' months (March-May), when there is both sunlight and snow. The winter season itself (November/December-March) offers many possibilities for outdoor adventure - and the polar night is an experience in itself. Despite winter temperatures that can drop to over 40 below zero, Svalbard's glorious mountains, majestic fjords and sprawling valleys are the perfect setting for adventurous journeys out to the back of beyond, giving visitors a unique vantage point on a unique tourist destination. This brand-new edition of Svalbard provides all of the practical and background information you'll need to explore this wild place, turning the hostile into the hospitable. Bradt's Svalbard is written by Roger Norum, an expert in the region who writes regularly on northern Norway for the press and who teaches Norwegian language and translation at University College London. He is also a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, where he carries out research on the links between tourism, travel writing and environmental change in the European Arctic.
The Boundless Sea
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Author : David Abulafia
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2019-10-03
The Boundless Sea written by David Abulafia and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-03 with History categories.
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2020 A SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR For most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between peoples - for the spread of ideas and religion as well as commerce. This book traces the history of human movement and interaction around and across the world's greatest bodies of water, charting our relationship with the oceans from the time of the first voyagers. David Abulafia begins with the earliest of seafaring societies - the Polynesians of the Pacific, the possessors of intuitive navigational skills long before the invention of the compass, who by the first century were trading between their far-flung islands. By the seventh century, trading routes stretched from the coasts of Arabia and Africa to southern China and Japan, bringing together the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific and linking half the world through the international spice trade. In the Atlantic, centuries before the little kingdom of Portugal carved out its powerful, seaborne empire, many peoples sought new lands across the sea - the Bretons, the Frisians and, most notably, the Vikings, now known to be the first Europeans to reach North America. As Portuguese supremacy dwindled in the late sixteenth century, the Spanish, the Dutch and then the British each successively ruled the waves. Following merchants, explorers, pirates, cartographers and travellers in their quests for spices, gold, ivory, slaves, lands for settlement and knowledge of what lay beyond, Abulafia has created an extraordinary narrative of humanity and the oceans. From the earliest forays of peoples in hand-hewn canoes through uncharted waters to the routes now taken daily by supertankers in their thousands, The Boundless Sea shows how maritime networks came to form a continuum of interaction and interconnection across the globe: 90 per cent of global trade is still conducted by sea. This is history of the grandest scale and scope, and from a bracingly different perspective - not, as in most global histories, from the land, but from the boundless seas.
Alabama Footprints Immigrants
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Author : Donna R. Causey
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-02-04
Alabama Footprints Immigrants written by Donna R. Causey and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-04 with categories.
When independence from Britain was won in 1776, a great westward movement of Americans began. Historians refer to this movement west as the Great Migration. Tough it was only a territory, Alabama's population grew faster than any other state in the United States during the time. ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Immigrants includes some lost & forgotten stories of their experiences such as: The Birth of Twickenham Captain Slick - Fact or Fiction Vine & Olive Company The Death of Stooka President Monroe's Surprise Visit To Huntsville
Alabama Footprints Exploration
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Author : Donna R. Causey
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-03-05
Alabama Footprints Exploration written by Donna R. Causey and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-05 with History categories.
From the time of the discovery of America through the time of De Soto's daring expedition, restless, resolute, and adventurous men crossed oceans in pursuit of their destiny. From the story of the first Mardi Gras that took place in America through the American Revolution. Alabama Footprints relates lost and forgotten stories from Alabama's early days.
Alabama Footprints Statehood
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Author : Donna Causey
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-03-05
Alabama Footprints Statehood written by Donna Causey and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-05 with categories.
Once Alabama was admitted as a state of the United States of America on December 4, 1819, a great wave of immigrants from other states and countries came by flat-boats, pack-horses, covered wagons and ships to become the first citizens of the state. ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Statehood presents the times and conditions they faced in lost & forgotten stories which include: Who Controlled And Organized The New State of Alabama? Tuscaloosa Had Three Other Names Chandelier Falls & Capitol Burns Alabama Throws Parties For General LaFayette Francis Scott Key Was Sent to Alabama To Solve Problems
Alabama Footprints Confrontation
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Author : Donna R. Causey
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2015-11-03
Alabama Footprints Confrontation written by Donna R. Causey and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-03 with categories.
Prior to statehood, Alabama was a vast wilderness with a large Native American population. It is only natural that when new immigrants from other states arrived, conflicts over the land would arise. Soon, these small conflicts exploded into war. Alabama Footprints Confrontation is a collection of lost and forgotten stories that reveals why and how the confrontation between the Native American population and settlers developed into the Creek-Indian War as well as stories of the bravery and heroism of participants from both sides. Some stores include: Tecumseh Causes Earthquake Terrified Settlers Abandon Farms Survivor Stories From Fort Mims Massacre Hillabee Massacre Threat of Starvation Men Turn To Mutiny Red Eagle After The War