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161) The greatest polar expedition of all time: the Arctic mission to the epicenter of climate change
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Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"A captain's tell-all about the world's largest Arctic expedition--an illuminating account of seafaring adventure, Arctic natural history, and cutting-edge climate science. The book about the Mosaic Expedition: as seen in the documentary film Arctic Drift, Atmospheric scientist Markus Rex recounts the monumental Arctic expedition he captained for one year in this gripping and authoritative book. A groundbreaking step towards understanding the climate...
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Haunted America, a divison of The History Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
An unbelievable account of ghosts, long-legged beasts, and things that go bump in the night in the historic Colorado mining town and its environs.
Home to the last gold rush in America, Teller County attracted a slew of peculiar characters. And many never left. A Victor Hotel regular named Eddie met his untimely death when he tumbled down the elevator shaft. A female apparition clad in Victorian clothing appears on the stairs of the Palace Hotel....
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Tracing the footsteps of Shackleton, Sandy Winterbottom embarked on an epic six-week tall-ship voyage from Uruguay to Antarctica. At the mid-way stop in South Georgia, her pristine image of the Antarctic was shattered when she discovered the tragic legacy of twentieth century industrial-scale whaling. Enraged by what she found, she was quick to blame the men who undertook this wholescale slaughter, but then she stumbled upon the grave of an eighteen-year-old...
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Publisher
AdventureKEEN
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Newly revised and updated, this best-selling independent guide to Walt Disney World presents in-depth reviews, ratings and details, from hotels and resorts to dining, rides and venues, helping you enjoy every minute of your vacation.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Acclaimed travel writer Rick Antonson sets his adventurous compass on Mount Ararat, exploring the region's long history, religious mysteries, and complex politics. Mount Ararat is the most fabled mountain in the world. For millennia this massif in eastern Turkey has been rumored as the resting place of Noah's Ark following the Great Flood. But it also plays a significant role in the longstanding conflict between Turkey and Armenia. Author Rick Antonson...
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University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A warm, witty memoir of a young family's rugged adventure living in the newly established Big Bend National Park in the 1940s.
A woman who went West with her husband in the 1840s must have expected hardships and privation, but during the 1940s, when Etta Koch stopped off in Big Bend with her young family and a twenty-three-foot travel trailer in tow, which they named Porky, the Road Hog, she anticipated a brief, civilized camping trip between her...