Who Saved Antarctica?: The Heroic Era of Antarctic Diplomacy, Jackson Andrew
Автор: Bunes Robert M. Название: Wind, Fire, and Ice: The Perils of a Coast Guard Icebreaker in Antarctica ISBN: 1493060341 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781493060344 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 35200.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Between 1955 and 1987, the United States Coast Guard Cutter Glacier was the largest and most powerful icebreaker in the free world. Consequently, it was often given the most difficult and dangerous Antarctic missions. This is the dramatic first-person account of its most legendary voyage. In 1970, the author was the Chief Medical Officer on the Glacier when it became trapped deep in the Weddell Sea, pressured by 100 miles of wind-blown icepack. Glacier was beset within seventy miles of where Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, was imprisoned in 1915. His stout wooden ship succumbed to the crushing pressure of the infamous Weddell Sea pack ice and sank, leading to an unbelievable two-year saga of hardship, heroism and survival. The sailors aboard the Glacier feared they would suffer Shackleton's fate, or one even worse. Freakishly good luck eventually saved the Glacier from destruction, but the story is told as the author, who was not part of the chain of command, experienced it. More imminent threats later occurred involving a three-hour inferno, as well as eight-story waves that drove the ship to the brink of disaster. Wind, Fire, and Ice is the story about a physician fresh-out-of-internship who naпvely assumes he is going to have an easy assignment and see numerous exotic ports. Instead, he experiences adventures and adversities beyond his imagination, as well as jarring conflicts with an obsessed captain.
Автор: Byrd Richard Evelyn Jr. Название: Discovery: The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition ISBN: 1442241667 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442241664 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 26740.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: From the moment Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr. first left Anarctica, he knew he would return. Both the scope of the strange land and the uncharted scientific promise it held were too much to leave behind forever. This second Antarctic journey proved as daring, eventful, and inspiring as any Byrd ever embarked upon.
Название: Terra Antarctica: Looking Into the Emptiest Continent ISBN: 1595348948 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781595348944 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 24780.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A dazzling portrait of a vast empty continent
Автор: Peder Название: Antarctica and the Humanities ISBN: 1137545747 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137545749 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 74530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The continent for science is also a continent for the humanities. Despite having no indigenous human population, Antarctica has been imagined in powerful, innovative, and sometimes disturbing ways that reflect politics and culture much further north. Antarctica has become an important source of data for natural scientists working to understand global climate change. As this book shows, the tools of literary studies, history, archaeology, and more, can likewise produce important insights into the nature of the modern world and humanity more broadly.
Автор: Antonello Alessandro Название: The Greening of Antarctica: Assembling an International Environment ISBN: 0190907177 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190907174 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 160170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Greening of Antarctica reveals how the geopolitical, intellectual, conceptual, and legal foundations of contemporary Antarctic environmental protection and imagination were formed in the crucial period between the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959 and the signing of the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources in 1980.
Автор: Day David Название: Antarctica: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) ISBN: 0190641312 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190641313 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 11610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: An accessible and unfortunately timely introduction to the world`s melting continent, Antarctica
Автор: Maddison Название: Class and Colonialism in Antarctic Exploration, 1750–1920 ISBN: 1138703699 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138703698 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 54090.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Between 1750 and 1920 over 15,000 people visited Antarctica. Despite such a large number the historiography has ignored all but a few celebrated explorers. Maddison presents a study of Antarctic exploration, telling the story of these forgotten facilitators, he argues that Antarctic exploration can be seen as an offshoot of European colonialism.
Автор: Howkins Adrian Название: Frozen Empires: An Environmental History of the Antarctic Peninsula ISBN: 0197533558 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780197533550 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 49490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Perpetually covered in ice and snow, the mountainous Antarctic Peninsula stretches southwardd towards the South Pole where it merges with the largest and coldest mass of ice anywhere on the planet. Yet far from being an otherworldly Pole Apart, the region has the most contested political history of any part of the Antarctic Continent. Since the start of the twentieth century, Argentina, Britain, and Chile have made overlapping sovereignty claims, while the United States and Russia have reserved rights to the entire continent. The environment has been at the heart of these disputes over sovereignty, placing the Antarctic Peninsula at a fascinating intersection between diplomatic history and environmental history. In Frozen Empires, Adrian Howkins argues that there has been a fundamental continuity in the ways in which imperial powers have used the environment to support their political claims in the Antarctic Peninsula region. British officials argued that the production of useful scientific knowledge about the Antarctic helped to justify British ownership. Argentina and Chile made the case that the Antarctic Peninsula belonged to them as a result of geographical proximity, geological continuity, and a general sense of connection. Despite various challenges and claims, however, there has never been a genuine decolonization of the Antarctic Peninsula region. Instead, imperial assertions that respective entities were conducting science for the good of humanity were reformulated through the terms of the 1959 Antarctic Treaty, and Antarctica's frozen empires remain in place to this day. In arguing for imperial continuity in the region, Howkins counters the official historical narrative of Antarctica, which rests on a dichotomy between bad sovereignty claims and good scientific research. Frozen Empires instead suggests that science, politics, and the environment have been inextricably connected throughout the history of the Antarctic Peninsula region--and remain so--and shows how political prestige in the guise of conducting science for the good of humanity continues to influence international climate negotiations.
"A remarkable book." Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the world's greatest living explorer.
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Antarctica 1911. Your commanding officer, dying of scurvy, orders you to leave him behind. To disobey a direct order is mutiny. To obey is to leave him to die. What would you do? This was a real situation. What they did will surprise and amaze you.
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Awards for When Your Life Depends on It:
Finalist: Wishing Shelf Awards: Non-Fiction
Finalist: Voice Arts Awards: Best Audiobook Narration: History
Winner First Place: Chanticleer International Book Awards I&I Non-Fiction
Автор: Byrd Richard Evelyn Jr. Название: Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic, the Flight to the South Pole ISBN: 1442241705 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442241701 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 26740.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Reprint of the original 1935 book published by G.P. Putnam and Sons.
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