Land Under The Pole Star
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Under The Pole Star
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Author : Alexander Richard Glen
language : en
Publisher: London : Methuen
Release Date : 1937
Under The Pole Star written by Alexander Richard Glen and has been published by London : Methuen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1937 with Arctic regions categories.
Narrative of expedition to Nordaustlandet.
Under A Pole Star
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Author : Stef Penney
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-11-03
Under A Pole Star written by Stef Penney and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-03 with Travel categories.
RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB 2017. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 COSTA NOVEL AWARD. 'A novel of huge scope with a tremendous sense of period and place' Costa judges 'A dazzling tale of romance and survival' Guardian Follow the path to the freezing north. Follow your ambition. Follow your heart Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve. Years later, in 1892, determination and chance lead her back to northern Greenland as a scientist at the head of a British expedition, defying the expectations of those who believe a woman has no place in that harsh world. Geologist Jakob de Beyn was raised in Manhattan. Yearning for wider horizons, he joins a rival expedition. Jakob and Flora's paths cross. It is a fateful meeting, where passion and ambition collide and an irresistible attraction is born. The violent extremes of the north obsess them both: perpetual night and endless day; frozen seas and coastal meadows, and the strange, maddening pull it exerts on the people trying to make their mark on its vast expanses - a pursuit of glory whose outcome will reverberate for years to come.
The Viking Discovery Of America
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Author : Helge Ingstad
language : en
Publisher: Breakwater Books
Release Date : 2000
The Viking Discovery Of America written by Helge Ingstad and has been published by Breakwater Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Faced with harsh conditions in their Greenland home, a group of Vikings took the reins of fate into their own hands. With incredible luck, skill and fortitude, they discovered lands filled with a profusion of wood, wild game and fertile land. In the sagas that grew from this discovery, the lands were given names that resonated with hope and promise. Almost 1000 years later, a husband and wife team united their talents. Intrigued by allusions in the ancient sagas to fabled Vinland, they considered the scholarship on Viking culture and technology; they studied maps and they researched intensively the prominent theories on Vinland's location. And finally their efforts bore fruit when a remote Newfoundland peninsula yielded up a soapstone spindle-whorl, a Viking ring pin, and what had to be the overgrown remnants of over a dozen Viking buildings.
Land Under The Pole Star
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Author : Helge Ingstad
language : en
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 1966
Land Under The Pole Star written by Helge Ingstad and has been published by New York : St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with America categories.
Norwegian explorer reconstructs all aspects of life in Norse communities founded by Eirik the Red about 1000 A.D.
On The Polar Star In The Arctic Sea
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Author : Luigi Amedeo di Savoia
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-05-22
On The Polar Star In The Arctic Sea written by Luigi Amedeo di Savoia and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-22 with History categories.
A 1903 account of the 1899-1900 Italian/Norwegian expedition, led by Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, towards the North Pole.
Norse In The North Atlantic
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Author : Ryan Sines
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-10-10
Norse In The North Atlantic written by Ryan Sines and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-10 with History categories.
Horned helmets. Pirates. Murderers. The Vikings are often depicted as fierce invaders who straddle the line between barbarians and civilized people. However, the Norse spread throughout Europe and Asia during the Middle Ages, taking with them new ideas. They discovered and settled the islands of Iceland and Greenland and tried to build their own idealized societies, free of the kings they left behind in Norway and Denmark. In Iceland the experiment worked and thrived while the settlement in Greenland failed. Using information gathered from archaeology and historical sources, Ryan Sines answers the question: What allowed Iceland to succeed while the last Greenlander died waiting for a supply ship that never came?
Erikson Eskimos Columbus
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Author : James Robert Enterline
language : en
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Release Date : 2003-05-01
Erikson Eskimos Columbus written by James Robert Enterline and has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-01 with History categories.
This revealing analysis of Medieval cartography and native American travel upends conventional narratives about discovering the New World. For generations, American schools have taught children that Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. But evidence shows that Leif Erikson set foot on the continent centuries earlier. As debate continues over which explorer deserves the credit, early maps of North America suggest that we may be asking the wrong questions. How did medieval Europeans have such specific geographic knowledge of North America, a land even their most daring adventurers had not yet discovered? In Erikson, Eskimos, and Columbus, James Robert Enterline presents new evidence that traces this knowledge to the cartographic skills of indigenous people of the high Arctic, who, he contends, provided the basis for medieval maps of large parts of North America. Drawing on an exhaustive chronological survey of pre-Columbian maps, including the controversial Yale Vinland Map, this book boldly challenges conventional accounts of Europe’s discovery of the New World.
North Pole
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Author : Michael Bravo
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2019-01-15
North Pole written by Michael Bravo and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Science categories.
The North Pole has long held surprising importance for many of the world’s cultures. Interweaving science and history, this book offers the first unified vision of how the North Pole has shaped everything from literature to the goals of political leaders—from Alexander the Great to neo-Hindu nationalists. Tracing the intersecting notions of poles, polarity, and the sacred from our most ancient civilizations to the present day, Michael Bravo explores how the idea of a North Pole has given rise to utopias, satires, fantasies, paradoxes, and nationalist ideologies across every era, from the Renaissance to the Third Reich. The Victorian conceit of the polar regions as a vast empty wilderness—a bastion of adventurous white males battling against the elements—is far from the only polar vision. Bravo paints a variety of alternative pictures: of a habitable Arctic crisscrossed by densely connected networks of Inuit trade and travel routes, a world rich in indigenous cultural meanings; of a sacred paradise or lost Eden among both Western and Eastern cultures, a vision that curiously (and conveniently) dovetailed with the imperial aspirations of Europe and the United States; and as the setting for tales not only of conquest and redemption, but also of failure and catastrophe. And as we face warming temperatures, melting ice, and rising seas, Bravo argues, only an understanding of the North Pole’s deeper history, of our conception of it as both a sacred and living place, can help humanity face its twenty-first-century predicament.
The Conquest Of The North Atlantic
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Author : Geoffrey Jules Marcus
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2007
The Conquest Of The North Atlantic written by Geoffrey Jules Marcus and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
The story of how the fearsome Atlantic Ocean was explored by early sailors, including the Vikings, whose brilliant navigation matched their bravery.
The Captain Of The Polestar And Other Tales
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Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2022-10-20
The Captain Of The Polestar And Other Tales written by Arthur Conan Doyle and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-20 with Fiction categories.
Reproduction of the original.