The Lure of Unknown Lands
Author : Frederick George Jackson
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 1935
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN :
Author : Frederick George Jackson
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 1935
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN :
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Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 18,49 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 0595214738
Author : Rose Wilder Lane
Publisher : Laissez Faire Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 1943
Category : Authority
ISBN : 1621290115
Author : Mark Nuttall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2306 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 2005-09-23
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1136786805
With detailed essays on the Arctic's environment, wildlife, climate, history, exploration, resources, economics, politics, indigenous cultures and languages, conservation initiatives and more, this Encyclopedia is the only major work and comprehensive reference on this vast, complex, changing, and increasingly important part of the globe. Including 305 maps. This Encyclopedia is not only an interdisciplinary work of reference for all those involved in teaching or researching Arctic issues, but a fascinating and comprehensive resource for residents of the Arctic, and all those concerned with global environmental issues, sustainability, science, and human interactions with the environment.
Author : Isobel P. Williams
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 35,40 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1445680823
A difficult man, a brilliant scientist, a brave explorer. William Speirs Bruce's contribution to polar research is greater than that of Scott or Shackleton.
Author : William Leslie King
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 27,45 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Church history
ISBN :
Author : Glyn Williams
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 17,7 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0300182201
DIV On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the “long eighteenth century,” naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic and perhaps lucrative flora and fauna unknown at home, these men set out eagerly to collect and catalogue, study and document an uncharted natural world./div DIV /div DIV This enthralling book is the first to describe the adventures and misadventures, discoveries and dangers of this devoted and sometimes eccentric band of explorer-scholars. Their individual experiences are uniquely their own, but together their stories offer a new perspective on the extraordinary era of Pacific exploration and the achievements of an audacious generation of naturalists. Historian Glyn Williams illuminates the naturalist’s lot aboard ship, where danger alternated with boredom and quarrels with the ship’s commander were the norm. Nor did the naturalist’s difficulties end upon returning home, where recognition for years of work often proved elusive. Peopled with wonderful characters and major figures of Enlightenment science—among them Louis Antoine de Bouganville, Joseph Banks, John Reinhold Forster, Captain Cook, and Charles Darwin—this book is a gripping account of a small group of scientific travelers whose voyages of discovery were to change perceptions of the natural world./div
Author : Renata Tyszczuk
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 11,52 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783039103249
In this book the author explores the representational strategies of the modern period and their relation to political life through the story of Stanislas Leszczynski, architect king and roi bienfaisant, 'a king that does good'. The ingredients of his story are compelling. They include: an exiled king (who makes a cameo appearance in Voltaire's Candide and corresponds with Rousseau); a collection of writings that include aphorisms, political treatises, and a utopian novel; gardens that include a grotto of eighty-six life-size automata and an experimental village of courtiers; and architecture and landscapes that traverse the contested boundaries of central Europe, imaginary constructions of the orient, and the borderlines between fact and fiction. These come together to make a distinctive account of the transitional period in eighteenth-century culture. Stanislas' architectural and literary works were rooted in an acceptance of the uncertainty of the world more characteristic of the story. His 'hope of a better age' emerges as an endeavour - through the writing and the architecture - to find one's own meaning in history as well as a model for the good life. His story suggests a way of exploring what this struggle still entails today.
Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher :
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN :
Author : Roland Huntford
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 2012-08-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1405520329
Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar exploration, the last act of territorial discovery before the leap into space began. Nansen was a prime illustration of Carlyle's dictum that 'the history of the world is but the biography of great men'. He was not merely a pioneer in the wildly diverse fields of oceanography and skiing, but one of the founders of neurology. A restless, unquiet Faustian spirit, Nansen was a Renaissance Man born out of his time into the new Norway of Ibsen and Grieg. He was an artist and historian, a diplomat who had dealings with Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, and played a part in the Versailles Peace Conference, where he helped the Americans in their efforts to contain the Bolsheviks. He also undertook famine relief in Russia. Finally, working for the League of Nations as both High Commissioner for Refugees and High Commissioner for the Repatriation of Prisoners of War, he became the first of the modern media-conscious international civil servants.