Every autumn, Icelandic farmers travel into the country’s interior to collect their sheep from the summer pastures. This process has remained unchanged for centuries and the search is still conducted primarily by horse or on foot. For the past 25 years, Icelandic photographer Axelsson (born 1958) has observed farmers on their roundups in one of the most difficult …
High Latitudes: The Incredible True Story of an Arctic Journey
In High Latitudes, Farley Mowat chronicles for the first time the hazardous journey he took across northern Canada in 1966. He hoped to write a book that would let northern people speak for themselves and that would expose the speciousness of the political idea that the North was a bloody great wasteland” with no people in it, and …
Antarctica Satellite [Laminated] (National Geographic Reference Map)
A striking view of Antarctica’s terrain, compiled from 4,500 satellite scans. Additional inset maps show surface elevation, ice sheet thickness, velocity of ice flow, and sea ice movement and windflow.Map is printed on premium quality paper stock, laminated, rolled, and packaged in a clear plastic sleeve.Map Scale = 1:9,200,000Sheet Size = 31.25″ x …
Shards of Ice is about Antarctica, the death of a beloved husband and grief. Written in fragments, Shards of Ice interweaves experiences of the author’s trips to Antarctica – the first was soon after her husband died – and stories of the early explorers, in the form of snapshots rather than linear history. There is a section on the …
A hundred years ago, Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out for the South Pole. They never made it. Within sight of land, the ship ran into dangerous waters filled with chunks of ice. Then the sea froze around them! There was no hope of rescue. Could Shackleton find a way to save himself and his men? “Well-written …
The US Antarctic meteorite collection exists due to a cooperative program involving the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Smithsonian Institution. Since 1976, meteorites have been collected by a NSF-funded field team, shipped for curation, characterization, distribution, and storage at NASA, and classified and stored for long term at the Smithsonian. …
Special Forces Survival Guide: Desert, Arctic, Mountain, Jungle, Urban
Review of the author’s Encyclopedia of Survival Techniques (2000): This could prove to be a mighty handy volume. Recommended. –Library Journal Written by a former member of the British Territorial Army, Special Forces Survival Guide arms readers with the survival techniques used by special forces units around the world. …
Is this the end of Jack Danielson?Jack Danielson has spent the last year risking everything to save the oceans and the Amazon. Now, he’s more than ready to get back to a normal life and spend some quality time with his girlfriend. Too bad the world has other plans. Wrenched away once more from the woman he loves, …
An account of one couple’s life on a remote island beyond the Polar Front, a tale to rival the exploits of the great nineteenth-century explorers. After twenty-five years of cruising the world’s oceans, renowned blue-water sailors Pauline and Tim Carr found themselves being drawn to the lonely places of the higher latitudes to experience earth’s last, scarcely touched …
Ushuaia to Antarctica – Drake Passage Map: Polar Voyage Log Map
65 x 95 cm – 1:5.000.000 – 100 gram DRAKE PASSAGE MAP – Polar Voyage Log MapThe ship voyage from South America to the Antarctic Peninsula is a travel of a lifetime. After two days navigating on a sea of miles deep with the strongest and wildest currents and winds, the traveler arrives to a paradise for people …