Four Against the Arctic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Four Against the Arctic write by David Roberts. This book was released on 2005-09-02. Four Against the Arctic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1743, four stranded Russian sailors survived the next six years in the Arctic with no provisions. Making a bow and arrows from driftwood--since there are no trees there--they survived on reindeer meat until another ship blown off course rescued them.
Shipwrecked on the Top of the World
Shipwrecked on the Top of the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shipwrecked on the Top of the World write by David Roberts. This book was released on 2003. Shipwrecked on the Top of the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is Roberts' quest to reconstruct one of the most amazing and inspirational survival story in history: the tale of how four 18th- century sailors endured six years on a barren Arctic island.
Four Degrees Celsius
Four Degrees Celsius - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Four Degrees Celsius write by Kerry Karram. This book was released on 2012-04-21. Four Degrees Celsius available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This dramatic story of the rescue of eight men on a prospecting mission in the Arctic covers a period of four suspenseful months in the fall of 1929. A rescue team, headed by bush pilot Andy Cruikshank, at a time when aviation was in its infancy, encountered harrowing experiences but finally completed its mission.
The Arctic Fury
The Arctic Fury - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Arctic Fury write by Greer Macallister. This book was released on 2020-12-01. The Arctic Fury available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A dozen women join a secret 1850s Arctic expedition—and a sensational murder trial unfolds when some of them don't come back. Eccentric Lady Jane Franklin makes an outlandish offer to adventurer Virginia Reeve: take a dozen women, trek into the Arctic, and find her husband's lost expedition. Four parties have failed to find him, and Lady Franklin wants a radical new approach: put the women in charge. A year later, Virginia stands trial for murder. Survivors of the expedition willing to publicly support her sit in the front row. There are only five. What happened out there on the ice? Set against the unforgiving backdrop of one of the world's most inhospitable locations, USA Today bestselling author Greer Macallister uses the true story of Lady Jane Franklin's tireless attempts to find her husband's lost expedition as a jumping-off point to spin a tale of bravery, intrigue, perseverance and hope.
The Future History of the Arctic
The Future History of the Arctic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Future History of the Arctic write by Charles Emmerson. This book was released on 2010-03-02. The Future History of the Arctic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Long at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map of the world, the Arctic has found its way to the center of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century: energy security and the struggle for natural resources, climate change and its uncertain speed and consequences, the return of great power competition, the remaking of global trade patterns In The Future History of the Arctic, geopolitics expert Charles Emmerson weaves together the history of the region with reportage and reflection, revealing a vast and complex area of the globe, loaded with opportunity and rich in challenges. He defines the forces which have shaped the Arctic's history and introduces the players in politics, business, science and society who are struggling to mold its future. The Arctic is coming of age. This engrossing book tells the story of how that is happening and how it might happen -- through the stories of those who live there, those who study it, and those who will determine its destiny.
