Fifty Years Below Zero A Lifetime Of Adventure In The Far North

Author : Charles D. Brower
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473381584
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifty Years Below Zero - A Lifetime Of Adventure In The Far North written by Charles D. Brower and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Charles D. Brower
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781436705172
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifty Years Below Zero written by Charles D. Brower and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Years Below Zero is an engrossing account by Charles Brower, the King of the Arctic, of his life in the north. Brower shares his knowledge of whaling, pioneering, and Alaska Native life and customs before statehood, chronicling a period of important and rapid change in Alaska history with moving depth, insight, and humor. His story is also full of high adventure and rich with details about he many vistors who became his friends--explorers, whalers, traders, missionaries, and everyone who for any reason came within reach of Brower's help and his cheer.

Author : Charles D. Brower
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Author : Charles D. Brower
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Author : Charles Brower
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9780464853527
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifty Years Below Zero written by Charles Brower and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2018-09-08 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brower had left San Francisco with the intention of making a short dash north on a whaling ship bound for the mythic Arctic Circle. Adventure had a way of following Charlie Brower. His initial landing turned into a fifty-year long ice-bound lifestyle. Once he stepped off the whaler and back onto dry, albeit frozen land, Brower took a job as master of the whaling station. But, though commerce brought him north, it was the people that helped keep him there for Charlie soon became fast friends with the native Inuit people. They taught him how to hunt seals on the ice, caribou on the tundra, and whales out on the sea. He learned their secrets, lived in their igloos, navigated in their kayaks and avoided being murdered in their feuds. Plus the young adventurer observed the great dramas of the Far North play out. He saw the last of the sailing ships disappear over the horizon, and watched the first airplane fly in. For fifty-seven years, through ice storms and northern lights, Charlie Brower maintained both this lonely outpost and his claim as "Uncle Sam's most northerly citizen." A book to remember, "Fifty Years Below Zero" is illustrated with photos by the author.

Author : Charles D. Brown
Publisher : Sanborn Press
ISBN 13 : 1406705284
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifty Years Below Zero - A Lifetime of Adventure in the Far North written by Charles D. Brown and published by Sanborn Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Charles D. Brower
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787204731
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifty Years Below Zero written by Charles D. Brower and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brower had left San Francisco with the intention of making a short dash north on a whaling ship bound for the mythic Arctic Circle. Adventure had a way of following Charlie Brower. His initial landing turned into a fifty-year long ice-bound lifestyle. Once he stepped off the whaler and back onto dry, albeit frozen land, Brower took a job as master of the whaling station. But, though commerce brought him north, it was the people that helped keep him there for Charlie soon became fast friends with the native Inuit people. They taught him how to hunt seals on the ice, caribou on the tundra, and whales out on the sea. He learned their secrets, lived in their igloos, navigated in their kayaks and avoided being murdered in their feuds. Plus the young adventurer observed the great dramas of the Far North play out. He saw the last of the sailing ships disappear over the horizon, and watched the first airplane fly in. For fifty-seven years, through ice storms and northern lights, Charlie Brower maintained both this lonely outpost and his claim as “Uncle Sam’s most northerly citizen.” A book to remember, “Fifty Years Below Zero” is richly illustrated throughout with photos by the author.

Author : Charles D. Brown
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ISBN 13 : 9781021171023
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : Charles Wohlforth
Publisher : North Point Press
ISBN 13 : 9781429923743
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Whale and the Supercomputer written by Charles Wohlforth and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 2005-05-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Whale and the Supercomputer, scientists and natives wrestle with our changing climate in the land where it has hit first--and hardest A traditional Eskimo whale-hunting party races to shore near Barrow, Alaska--their comrades trapped on a floe drifting out to sea--as ice that should be solid this time of year gives way. Elsewhere, a team of scientists transverses the tundra, sleeping in tents, surviving on frozen chocolate, and measuring the snow every ten kilometers in a quest to understand the effects of albedo, the snow's reflective ability to cool the earth beneath it. Climate change isn't an abstraction in the far North. It is a reality that has already dramatically altered daily life, especially that of the native peoples who still live largely off the land and sea. Because nature shows her footprints so plainly here, the region is also a lure for scientists intent on comprehending the complexities of climate change. In this gripping account, Charles Wohlforth follows the two groups as they navigate a radically shifting landscape. The scientists attempt to decipher its smallest elements and to derive from them a set of abstract laws and models. The natives draw on uncannily accurate traditional knowledge, borne of long experience living close to the land. Even as they see the same things-a Native elder watches weather coming through too fast to predict; a climatologist notes an increased frequency of cyclonic systems-the two cultures struggle to reconcile their vastly different ways of comprehending the environment. With grace, clarity, and a sense of adventure, Wohlforth--a lifelong Alaskan--illuminates both ways of seeing a world in flux, and in the process, helps us to navigate a way forward as climate change reaches us all.

Author : Buddy Levy
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250274451
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire of Ice and Stone written by Buddy Levy and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Outdoor Book Awards Winner The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world’s greatest living ice navigator. The expedition’s visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame.Just six weeks after the Karluk departed, giant ice floes closed in around her. As the ship became icebound, Stefansson disembarked with five companions and struck out on what he claimed was a 10-day caribou hunting trip. Most on board would never see him again.Twenty-two men and an Inuit woman with two small daughters now stood on a mile-square ice floe, their ship and their original leader gone. Under Bartlett’s leadership they built make-shift shelters, surviving the freezing darkness of Polar night. Captain Bartlett now made a difficult and courageous decision. He would take one of the young Inuit hunters and attempt a 1000-mile journey to save the shipwrecked survivors. It was their only hope. Set against the backdrop of the Titanic disaster and World War I, filled with heroism, tragedy, and scientific discovery, Buddy Levy's Empire of Ice and Stone tells the story of two men and two distinctively different brands of leadership—one selfless, one self-serving—and how they would forever be bound by one of the most audacious and disastrous expeditions in polar history, considered the last great voyage of the Heroic Age of Discovery.