The Last Kings Of Thule
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The Last Kings Of Thule
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Author : Jean Malaurie
language : en
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Release Date : 1982
The Last Kings Of Thule written by Jean Malaurie and has been published by Jonathan Cape this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Social Science categories.
Les Derniers Rois De Thule The Last Kings Of Thule A Year Among The Polar Eskimos Of Greenland Translated By Gwendolen Freeman Etc
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Author : Jean Malaurie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Les Derniers Rois De Thule The Last Kings Of Thule A Year Among The Polar Eskimos Of Greenland Translated By Gwendolen Freeman Etc written by Jean Malaurie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with categories.
The Last Kings Of Thule
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Author : Jean Malaurie
language : en
Publisher: New York : Dutton
Release Date : 1982
The Last Kings Of Thule written by Jean Malaurie and has been published by New York : Dutton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Fiction categories.
Account of author's life with the Thule Eskimos, northwest Greenland, 1950-51. Library also has French edition (Paris: Union generale d'editions, 1965) and first English translation (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1956).
The Last Kings Of Thule
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Author : Jean Malaurie
language : en
Publisher: London : Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 1956
The Last Kings Of Thule written by Jean Malaurie and has been published by London : Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Eskimos categories.
English edition of Les derniers rois de Thule, (Paris, Plon, 1955.).
A Wretched And Precarious Situation In Search Of The Last Arctic Frontier
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Author : David Welky
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2016-11-01
A Wretched And Precarious Situation In Search Of The Last Arctic Frontier written by David Welky and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-01 with History categories.
A Booklist Best Literary Travel Book (2017) and Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book (2016) “A penetrating study of human character in a challenging environment. . . . [David Welky’s] seamless narrative, chilling at times and always thought-provoking, transports the reader to a time when the Arctic was virtually as harsh and inaccessible a place as the Moon or Mars.” —Natural History From a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, famed Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary spots a line of mysterious peaks dotting the horizon. In 1906, he names that distant, uncharted territory “Crocker Land.” Years later, two of Peary’s disciples, George Borup and Donald MacMillan, take the brave steps Peary never did: with a team of amateur adventurers and intrepid native guides, they endeavor to reach this unknown land and fill in the last blank space on the globe. What follows is hardship and mishap the likes of which none of the explorers could possibly have imagined. From howling blizzards and desperate food shortages to crime and tragedy, the explorers experience a remarkable journey of endurance, courage, and hope. Set in one of the world’s most inhospitable places, A Wretched and Precarious Situation is an Arctic tale unlike any other.
Divine Madness
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Author : Harry Eiss
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2011-08-08
Divine Madness written by Harry Eiss and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-08 with Religion categories.
Lila is Sanskrit for play, the play of the gods. It is the self-generating genesis of Bliss, created by Bliss for the purpose of Bliss. It is the uninhibited, impulsive sport of Brahman, the free spirit of creation that results in the spontaneous unfolding of the cosmos to be found in the eternity of each moment. It is beyond the confining locks and chains of reason, beyond the steel barred windows looking out from the cages of explanation, beyond the droning tick-tick-tick of the huge mechanical clocks of time. Come, let us enter the realm of the madman and the finely wrought threads of Clotho as they are measured out by Lachesis and cut by Atropos to create the great tapestry of life, including the intricate, intertwining designs of dementia with the trickster, the shaman, the scapegoat, the shadow, the artist and the savior. Come, let us join in the divine madness of the gods.
The Noonday Demon
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Author : Andrew Solomon
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-03-31
The Noonday Demon written by Andrew Solomon and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-31 with Self-Help categories.
WITH A NEW EPILOGUE BY THE AUTHOR Like Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, The Noonday Demon digs deep into personal history, as Andrew Solomon narrates, brilliantly and terrifyingly, his own agonising experience of depression. Solomon also portrays the pain of others, in different cultures and societies whose lives have been shattered by depression and uncovers the historical, social, biological, chemical and medical implications of this crippling disease. He takes us through the halls of mental hospitals where some of his subjects have been imprisoned for decades; into the research labs; to the burdened and afflicted poor, rural and urban. He talks to faith healers and voyages around the world in a quest for folk wisdom. He analyses the medications of today as well as reviewing the politics of diagnosis and treatment and, perhaps most significantly, he looks at the vital role of will and love in the process of recovery. **ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
Muskox Land
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Author : Lyle Dick
language : en
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Release Date : 2001
Muskox Land written by Lyle Dick and has been published by University of Calgary Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Muskox Land provides a meticulously researched and richly illustrated treatment of Canada's High Arctic as it interweaves insights from historiography, Native studies, ecology, anthropology, and polar exploration.
The Ice At The End Of The World
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Author : Jon Gertner
language : en
Publisher: Icon Books
Release Date : 2019-09-05
The Ice At The End Of The World written by Jon Gertner and has been published by Icon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-05 with Nature categories.
Greenland: a remote, mysterious, ice-covered rock with a population of just 56,000, has evolved from one of earth's last physical frontiers to its largest scientific laboratory. Locked within that vast 'white desert' are some of our planet's most profound secrets. As the Arctic climate warms, and Greenland's ice melts at an accelerating rate, the island is evolving into an economic and climatological hub, on which the future of the world turns. Journalist and historian Jon Gertner reconstructs in vivid, thrilling detail the heroic efforts of the scientists and explorers who have visited Greenland over the past 150 years - on skis, sleds, and now with planes and satellites, utilising every tool available to uncover the pressing secrets revealed by the ice before, thanks to climate change, it's too late. This is a story of epic adventures, populated by a colourful cast of scientists racing to get a handle on what will become of Greenland's ice and, ultimately, the world.
Into The Great Emptiness Peril And Survival On The Greenland Ice Cap
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Author : David Roberts
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2022-12-13
Into The Great Emptiness Peril And Survival On The Greenland Ice Cap written by David Roberts and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-13 with Nature categories.
The riveting story of one of the greatest but least-known sagas in the history of exploration from David Roberts, the “dean of adventure writing.” By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed “Gino”), a twenty-three-year-old British explorer, led thirteen scientists and explorers on an ambitious expedition to the east coast of Greenland and into its vast and forbidding interior to set up a permanent meteorological base on the icecap, 8,200 feet above sea level. The Ice Cap Station was to be the anchor of a transpolar route of air travel from Europe to North America. The weather on the ice cap was appalling. Fierce storms. Temperatures plunging lower than –50° Fahrenheit in the winter. Watkins’s scheme called for rotating teams of two men each to monitor the station for two months at a time. No one had ever tried to winter over in that hostile landscape, let alone manage a weather station through twelve continuous months. Watkins was younger than anyone under his command. But he had several daring trips to the Arctic under his belt and no one doubted his judgement. The first crisis came in the fall when a snowstorm stranded a resupply mission halfway to the top for many weeks. When they arrived at the ice cap, there were not enough provisions and fuel for another two-man shift, so the station would have to be abandoned. Then team member August Courtauld made an astonishing offer. To enable the mission to go forward, he would monitor the station solo through the winter. When a team went up in March to relieve Courtauld, after weeks of brutal effort to make the 130-mile journey, they could find no trace of him or the station. By the end of March, Courtauld’s situation was desperate. He was buried under an immovable load of frozen snow and was disastrously short on supplies. On April 21, four months after Courtauld began his solitary vigil, Gino Watkins set out inland with two companions to find and rescue him. David Roberts, “veteran mountain climber and chronicler of adventures” (Washington Post), draws on firsthand accounts and archival materials to tell the story of this daring expedition and of the epic survival ordeal that ensued.
