Polar Regions 4

Extrait : "Le 20 avril 1875, un certain nombre de gros bourgeois se trouvaient réunis dans une salle de l'auberge des Trois-Tulipes, à la Haye. Cette salle, spacieuse et bien éclairée, était ornée d……続きを見る

The Northwest Passage proved so elusive for so long that many sailors and explorers believed it didn't actually exist. A sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Arctic archi……続きを見る

When you're in the North Pole, how would you know where the South Pole is? This is a trick question because everything in the North Pole actually points South! Open the pages of this educational boo……続きを見る

What are the animals that survive the cold in the arctic tundra? Open the pages of this educational book to find out! The pictures included in this book, accompanied by simple texts, will definitely……続きを見る

Where is the North Pole? How about the South Pole? This book will teach your child more than just directions. It will also introduce the life forms found on each poles. The use of pictures that are ……続きを見る

Penguins are fantastic creatures. They have a unique familial system, wherein the mother hunts for food while the father warms the egg. What's even more interesting is how they find a partner and "m……続きを見る

How does the human mind transform space into place, or land into landscape? For more than three decades, William L. Fox has looked at empty landscapes and the role of the arts to investigate the way……続きを見る

Why would Doug Hall follow in Robert Peary's 1909 sled tracks to the North Pole, despite the grueling terrain and temperatures between 15 and 62 degrees below zero? His goal was to resurrect the spi……続きを見る

This book deals with a part of the book "The origin of the Indo-Europeans", which is associated with hydronyms of the territories adjacent to the Russian North. The book contains the names of rivers……続きを見る

Over a period of five years, the BBC took groups to the world’s most inhospitable places for Serious Jungle, Serious Amazon, Serious Desert, Serious Andes and Serious Arctic. This is what they had t……続きを見る

Come and explore Antarctica, only imaginatively! This educational book features Antarctica in all its diversity. Here, you can learn about all the amazing wildlife there, as well as the environment ……続きを見る

This is the guide that will bring you to the best sights, fun activities, great hotels, dining places and shopping areas – all the vital things that you need is present in this brief, but comprehens……続きを見る

Johnson’s savagely funny [book] is a grunt’s-eye view of fear and loathing, arrogance and insanity in a dysfunctional, dystopian closed community. It’s like M*A*S*H on ice, a bleak, black comedy.”ー……続きを見る

Antarctica is the end of the world but the beginning of an amazing adventure. Everything you need to know about traveling to the South Pole is included in this reference, including how, when, why, a……続きを見る

L’expédition antarctique belge ou expédition Belgica, menée par Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery de 1897 à 1899, à bord de la Belgica, est la première expédition à hiverner dans la région Antarctique. C……続きを見る

This book celebrates the Arctic, exploring the natural history that has so inspired generations. Early travellers to the Arctic brought back tales of amazing creatures and of the endurance required ……続きを見る

The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. It was led by Robert Falcon Scott and had various scie……続きを見る

Am 12. Juli 2017 hat der Autor eine Radtour ans Nordkapp begonnen. 70 Tage später hat er sein Ziel erreicht. Was er alles auf seiner Reise erlebt und gesehen hat findet man in Tagebuchform in diesem……続きを見る

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Antarcticais your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await ……続きを見る

As seen on TV! The Ice Pilots follows renegade Arctic airline Buffalo Airways, and pilots who defy the cold and the competition by using WWII era propeller planes likes the DC-3 to haul vital fuel, ……続きを見る

TIERRAS DEL NORTE, Viaje por Alaska y el Yukón, es la crónica de un recorrido por estos parajes con la historia, la naturaleza y el descubrimiento personal como hilo conductor. El viaje sigue inicia……続きを見る

Stories from outposts of the Southern Ocean, the windiest, roughest, most isolated and most important ocean on the planet. Venture to the deep south and you will experience a world like no other – f……続きを見る

From the fall of 1962 to the spring of 1963, my husband, Ed, our five children and myself lived in an Eskimo village on the vast tundra land of Alaska. We were thousands of miles from our suburban h……続きを見る

Rosemary Dunn Moeller grew up devouring books by Thor Hyerdahl, Tim Severin, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Herman Melville, and others whose reports of life at sea bested novels and films. In Northwest Af……続きを見る

JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED NATURAL HISTORY BOOK A scientist experiences primordial wonders and the wisdom of solitude in one of Earth’s wildest and most endangered places Greenland, one ……続きを見る

As senior surgeon on board Discovery, Dr. Reginald Koettlitz played a vital role in the heroic period of polar exploration when Nansen, Amundsen, Shackleton and Scott dominated the headlines. He was……続きを見る

Captain Woodfield made 20 seasonal voyages to the Antarctic on three research ships between 1955 and 1974. Starting as a Junior Deck Officer he worked for The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey wh……続きを見る

Spitsbergen is the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago which is situated between the Greenland and Barents Seas, approximately 600 miles from the North Pole. In the 16th century the islands w……続きを見る

Al vele jaren lang dacht ik over een expeditie naar de Noordelijke IJszee. Met de Fram wilde ik een nieuwen tocht ondernemen door de IJszee, namelijk door in het ijs af te drijven naar de pool, begi……続きを見る

Nepal is a great place for quirky travelers because it is a melting pot of many diverse ethnic groups and religions. This "Rooftop of the World" is also known for hosting more festivals than anywher……続きを見る