The Ice Desert
Author : Jules Verne
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Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,72 MB
Release : 1876
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Author : Jules Verne
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Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,72 MB
Release : 1876
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Author : Jules Verne
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Page : 251 pages
File Size : 23,20 MB
Release : 192?
Category : Adventure stories
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Author : Jules Verne
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Page : 223 pages
File Size : 25,52 MB
Release : 1904
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Author : Jules Verne
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Page : 478 pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 1876
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Author : Jules Verne
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 1800
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Author : Jon Gertner
Publisher : Random House
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 0812996631
A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change “Jon Gertner takes readers to spots few journalists or even explorers have visited. The result is a gripping and important book.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The Christian Science Monitor • Library Journal Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet that covers it is 700 miles wide and 1,500 miles long, and is composed of nearly three quadrillion tons of ice. For the last 150 years, explorers and scientists have sought to understand Greenland—at first hoping that it would serve as a gateway to the North Pole, and later coming to realize that it contained essential information about our climate. Locked within this vast and frozen white desert are some of the most profound secrets about our planet and its future. Greenland’s ice doesn’t just tell us where we’ve been. More urgently, it tells us where we’re headed. In The Ice at the End of the World, Jon Gertner explains how Greenland has evolved from one of earth’s last frontiers to its largest scientific laboratory. The history of Greenland’s ice begins with the explorers who arrived here at the turn of the twentieth century—first on foot, then on skis, then on crude, motorized sleds—and embarked on grueling expeditions that took as long as a year and often ended in frostbitten tragedy. Their original goal was simple: to conquer Greenland’s seemingly infinite interior. Yet their efforts eventually gave way to scientists who built lonely encampments out on the ice and began drilling—one mile, two miles down. Their aim was to pull up ice cores that could reveal the deepest mysteries of earth’s past, going back hundreds of thousands of years. Today, scientists from all over the world are deploying every technological tool available to uncover the secrets of this frozen island before it’s too late. As Greenland’s ice melts and runs off into the sea, it not only threatens to affect hundreds of millions of people who live in coastal areas. It will also have drastic effects on ocean currents, weather systems, economies, and migration patterns. Gertner chronicles the unfathomable hardships, amazing discoveries, and scientific achievements of the Arctic’s explorers and researchers with a transporting, deeply intelligent style—and a keen sense of what this work means for the rest of us. The melting ice sheet in Greenland is, in a way, an analog for time. It contains the past. It reflects the present. It can also tell us how much time we might have left.
Author : Dana Marton
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1472057589
Billionaire tycoon Akeem has loved his best friend’s little sister Taylor for years, yet now Taylor’s little boy has gone missing. The heir to a sheikhdom vows to bring her son home. Will it be enough to claim Taylor’s heart?
Author : W. John Hackwell
Publisher : Atheneum
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 27,50 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Introduces the history and geography of Antarctica and describes life on an Antarctic base and the type of scientific research that is done there.
Author : Jules Verne
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File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 1888
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Author : Chris Woodford
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Ecology
ISBN : 1432941720
Information about the animals and plants that typically make polar regions and tundra environments their homes.