Exploring the Polar Regions
Title | Exploring the Polar Regions PDF eBook |
Author | Harry S. Anderson |
Publisher | Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | 117 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 160413190X |
Starting with the final expedition of John Franklin, 19th-century England's most honored and respected Arctic explorer, the opening of the polar regions resulted in the establishment of the multitudes of research stations that produce observations, measurements, and data crucial to all areas of scientific inquiry. The first mariners to venture south signed on for voyages that lasted for years with no guarantee they would return. If they did come back from the frigid zones, it was with their health permanently damaged by bouts of scurvy and months of inadequate diet. Yet, there was never a shortage of eager, courageous men willing to replace the unfit. ""Exploring the Polar Regions, Revised Edition"" tells the story of polar exploration and the men who wittingly put themselves in danger to take on the unknown frozen straits. Coverage of this title includes: the mythical stories of a 'Great Southern Continent' and the numerous Spanish, French, and British explores who searched for it; a description of the race to the North Pole, including various explorers' theories on how to achieve this goal; Roald Amundsen's and Robert Scott's race to the South Pole in 1911 and 1912; how developments in equipment, machines, and communications changed exploration; and, Ernest Shackleton's epic voyage between 1914 and 1916 to Antarctica Aerial exploration of Antarctica.
Exploring Polar Regions
Title | Exploring Polar Regions PDF eBook |
Author | Judy Dodge Cummings |
Publisher | ABDO Publishing Company |
Total Pages | 146 |
Release | 2014-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1629680486 |
Throughout history, people have always explored new frontiers. Adventure, fame, and scientific discovery have all driven humans to forge into the unknown. This title examines the exploration of polar regions. Easy-to-read, engaging text takes readers to the Arctic and Antarctic, examines the explorers who journeyed to these frigid areas, and traces the development of the technology and techniques that made this exploration possible. Well-placed sidebars, vivid photos, helpful maps, and a glossary enhance readers' understanding of the topic. Additional features include a table of contents, a selected bibliography, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and essential facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Polar Exploration
Title | Polar Exploration PDF eBook |
Author | William Speirs Bruce |
Publisher | London : Williams and Norgate |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Antarctica |
ISBN |
General introduction to scientific exploration of polar regions, with sections on polar environment, land and sea ice, fauna and flora, aims and objects of exploration, etc.
Exploring the Polar Regions
Title | Exploring the Polar Regions PDF eBook |
Author | Jen Green |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 52 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780872264892 |
"Exploring the Polar Regions" describes the perils of Arctic and Antarctic travel, and the courage of the explorers who first mapped these frozen wastelands. It tells of the quest for the fabled Northwest and Northeast Passages through icy Arctic seas, of Peary's conquest of the North Pole, Shackleton's epic journey and the race for the South Pole. You will learn why these explorers set out, hazards they encountered along the way, what they discovered in the farthest reaches of the Earth, and more. Clear maps and superb reconstructions bring these journeys vividly to life.
United States Polar Exploration
Title | United States Polar Exploration PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Ralph Friis |
Publisher | Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN |
Twenty-six papers on history of U.S. polar exploration.
Red Arctic
Title | Red Arctic PDF eBook |
Author | John McCannon |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 255 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Arctic regions |
ISBN | 0195114361 |
McCannon also exposes the reality behind these exploits: chaotic blunders, bureaucratic competition, and the eventual rise of the GULAG as the dominant force in the North.
A Short History of Polar Exploration
Title | A Short History of Polar Exploration PDF eBook |
Author | Nick Rennison |
Publisher | Oldacastle Books |
Total Pages | 124 |
Release | 2014-05-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1843440911 |
An absorbing history, bringing explorers' tales vividly to life Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the men who went to Antarctica with Captain Scott, said "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been devised." Yet there has never been a shortage of volunteers willing to endure the bad times in pursuit of the glory that polar exploration sometimes brings. This compelling book tells the memorable stories of the men and women who have risked their lives by entering the white wastelands of the Arctic and the Antarctic, from the compelling tales of Scott, Shackleton, and Amundsen, to lesser known heroes such as Fridtjof Nansen and Robert Peary. This history also looks at the hold that the polar regions have often had on the imaginations of artists and writers in the last 200 years examining the paintings, films, and literature that they have inspired.