Polar Regions 10

Le district polaire austral est formé d'un continent, l'Antarctide, plus vaste que l'Europe et centré, approximativement, sur le pôle Sud, que ceinture un anneau océanique continu, l'océan glacial A……続きを見る

Fridtjof Nansen, célèbre explorateur norvégien, nous emmène dans son incroyable aventure polaire à travers son livre 'Vers le pôle'. Ce récit captivant relate son expédition périlleuse vers les régi……続きを見る

In 1914, the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton announced an ambitious plan to lead the first trek across Antarctica via the South Pole. The expedition would prove fraught with adventureーand peril. S……続きを見る

British Antarctic Expedition 1910 – 1913. My interview with Captain Scott, he explained what would be expected of me. My principal job, he said, would be the erection of Winter Quarters for the Sout……続きを見る

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing” (The New York Times) true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awryーwith the ship frozen in ……続きを見る

Over the century between the first Oblate mission to the Canadian central Arctic in 1867 and the radical shifts brought about by Vatican II, the region was the site of complex interactions between I……続きを見る

Near the South Pole, on a rock surrounded by ice there is a small city called McMurdo Base. What is it like there? 続きを見る

Recent challenges to US maritime predominance suggests a return to great power competition at sea, and this new volume looks at how navies in previous eras of multipolarity grappled with similar cha……続きを見る

Alex Hills traveled Alaska by bush plane and snow machine, braving extreme weather and rough terrain to bring telephone service to small villages across the big state. Then he developed a new public……続きを見る

In the Anthropocene, the thawing of frozen earth due to global warming has drawn worldwide attention to permafrost. Contemporary scientists define permafrost as ground that maintains a negative temp……続きを見る

Aurora Australis stands as the first book ever produced in Antarctica, a monumental feat in the annals of polar exploration and literature. This collection, birthed amidst the icy expanse of Shackle……続きを見る

Fridtjof Nansen: In Nacht und Eis – Die Norwegische Polarexpedition 1893–1896 – Erster und zweiter Band | Über 1000 Seiten, mit 418 Fotos, Skizzen, Grafiken und Karten und 220 Fußnoten | Neu editier……続きを見る

Larry Audlaluk was born in Uugaqsiuvik, a traditional settlement west of Inujjuak in northern Quebec, or Nunavik. He was almost three years old when his family was chosen by the government to be one……続きを見る

The north polar regions lie within the Arctic circle, and at their center is the North Pole. The distance from the circle to the pole is more than fourteen hundred miles. Intense cold and the hardsh……続きを見る

Science in the Arctic changed dramatically over the course of the nineteenth century, when early, scattered attempts in the region to gather knowledge about all aspects of the natural world transiti……続きを見る

Arctic Changes: Past to Present in the Far North is an educational and entertaining book that persuades readers to think about and take seriously the changes occurring in the Arctic. This is a uniqu……続きを見る

The Karluk set out in 1913 in search of an undiscovered continent, with the largest scientific staff ever sent into the Arctic. Soon after, winter had begun, they were blown off course by polar stor……続きを見る

From the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhabited Arctic island In September 1921, four young men and ……続きを見る

Een Antarctische ontdekkingsreis – van de auteur van het veelgeprezen Het gedroomde Noorden 'Elke zin is raak. [...] Het geheel aan invalshoeken, dagboekaantekeningen en anekdotes maakt Niemandsland……続きを見る

Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years. Spanning northern regions of North America, through Greenland, Svalbard to Russia, this ……続きを見る

When Admiral Richard E. Byrd set out on his second Antarctic expedition in 1934, he was already an international hero for having piloted the first flights over the North and South Poles. His plan fo……続きを見る

An entertaining and informative voyage through cultural fantasies of the North, from sea monsters and a mountain-sized magnet to racist mythmaking. Scholars and laymen alike have long projected thei……続きを見る

Between 1955 and 1987, the United States Coast Guard Cutter Glacier was the largest and most powerful icebreaker in the free world. Consequently, it was often given the most difficult and dangerous ……続きを見る

Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the borders of Russia and the Soviet Union, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural ……続きを見る

Jackie Ronne reclaims her rightful place in polar history as the first American woman in Antarctica. Jackie was an ordinary American woman whose life changed after a blind date with rugged Antarctic……続きを見る

**Now a major Netflix film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) The harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal account of two mismatched Arctic explorers who banded……続きを見る

In this new collection, Kenn Harper shares tales of Inuit and Christian beliefs and how these came to coexistーand sometimes clashーin the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During this period, Ang……続きを見る

At the height of the Korean War in 1952, a budding young historian was drafted into the U.S. Army just as the Pentagon was organizing a top-secret, scientific expeditionary unit, the Transportation ……続きを見る

Secondo il racconto Frö, re di Svezia, invase la Norvegia, ne uccise il sovrano, Synardus, e rinchiuse le donne del suo casato, tra cui Lathgertha, in un bordello per umiliarle pubblicamente. Saputo……続きを見る

Melting sea ice and rumbling volcanoes. Sled dogs racing through unnamed valleys. These were the images that came to mind when Molly Rettig moved to Fairbanks, Alaska to work as a reporter at the lo……続きを見る