Icebreaking Alaska

Author : Capt. Jeffrey D. Hartman USCG (ret)
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467131083
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Icebreaking Alaska written by Capt. Jeffrey D. Hartman USCG (ret) and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arctic is a place of great challenges and great rewards. A century ago, it was whale oil; today, it is motor oil. The increasing open water in the warmer months is attracting cruise ships to tour the Arctic. Significant offshore oil and natural gas deposits are of great interest to an oil-dependent economy. But the history of the Arctic is full of surprises for the unwary and the unprepared, despite native peoples having managed to live there for thousands of years. Oil spills or maritime emergencies can--and do--arise a long way off from assistance. Legendary Arctic storms are, if anything, becoming more intense and dangerous. All this is in an area inaccessible by roads or by sea except for icebreakers the majority of the year. It is of extreme interest to the US Coast Guard, charged with protecting seafarers, enforcing laws, and facilitating commerce.

Author : Jeffrey D. Hartman
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531675806
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Icebreaking Alaska written by Jeffrey D. Hartman and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arctic is a place of great challenges and great rewards. A century ago, it was whale oil; today, it is motor oil. The increasing open water in the warmer months is attracting cruise ships to tour the Arctic. Significant offshore oil and natural gas deposits are of great interest to an oil-dependent economy. But the history of the Arctic is full of surprises for the unwary and the unprepared, despite native peoples having managed to live there for thousands of years. Oil spills or maritime emergencies can--and do--arise a long way off from assistance. Legendary Arctic storms are, if anything, becoming more intense and dangerous. All this is in an area inaccessible by roads or by sea except for icebreakers the majority of the year. It is of extreme interest to the US Coast Guard, charged with protecting seafarers, enforcing laws, and facilitating commerce.

Author : Spike Walker
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466805382
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nights of Ice written by Spike Walker and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1999-02-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nights of Ice is a critically acclaimed account of the dangerous and harrowing job of fishing off of the treacherous, subzero Alaskan coastline. Spike Walker has spent more than a decade fishing in the subzero hell of Alaska's coastal waters. This collection--coming on the heels of his classic memoir Working on the Edge--is a testament to the courage of those who brave nature's wrath each fishing season, and to the uncontrolled power of nature herself.. The crewmen in Nights of Ice face a constant onslaught of roaring waves, stories-high swells, and life-stealing ice. Tested by the elements, these seamen battle for their vessels and their lives, on every page evincing a level of courage and a will to live seldom found elsewhere in modern society.

Author : Kelsey Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732735514
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alaska Ice Guide written by Kelsey Gray and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ice climbing guide for Alaska since 1989. 200+ routes from all around the state.

Author : Spike Walker
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312156111
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nights of Ice written by Spike Walker and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fishing off the treacherous sub-zero Alaskan coastline is one of the most harrowing and dangerous jobs in the world. Spike Walker, author of "Working on the Edge", brings the terror to life in these tales of men who live at the edge of survival. Through roaring waves, stories-high swells, and the constant onslaught of ice, the seamen in these stories battle nature's violent unpredictability.

Author : Nancy Gates
Publisher : Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.
ISBN 13 : 0882406523
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alaska Almanac written by Nancy Gates and published by Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to know Alaska inside and out, there is no better reference than THE ALASKA ALMANAC.. Updated annually with facts and figures on geography, history, economics, sports, cultures, and people of the Last Frontier, this information-packed volume is a must-have for Alaskans and visitors alike. Celebrating its thirtieth birthday this year, this handy little guide is chock-full of Alaskana, from the beautiful to the bizarre. As always, the wit and wisdom of Mr. Whitekeys continues to delight readers with his wacky-but-true Alaska factoids. Did you know . . . Arctic researchers on the northern tundra have reported up to 9,000 mosquito bites per minute. There are 166,000 moose in Alaska. Each one produces approximately 400 ""moose nuggets"" per day. Alaskans are the second highest per capita consumers of SPAM. in the nation. ""Gold nuggets about Alaska."" -- The Associated Press

Author : Kim Heacox
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493008684
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire written by Kim Heacox and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dual biography of two of the most compelling elements in the narrative of wild America, John Muir and Alaska. John Muir was a fascinating man who was many things: inventor, scientist, revolutionary, druid (a modern day Celtic priest), husband, son, father and friend, and a shining son of the Scottish Enlightenment -- both in temperament and intellect. Kim Heacox, author of The Only Kayak, bring us a story that evolves as Muir’s life did, from one of outdoor adventure into one of ecological guardianship---Muir went from impassioned author to leading activist. The book is not just an engaging and dramatic profile of Muir, but an expose on glaciers, and their importance in the world today. Muir shows us how one person changed America, helped it embrace its wilderness, and in turn, gave us a better world. December 2014 will mark the 100th anniversary of Muir’s death. Muir died of a broken heart, some say, when Congress voted to approve the building of Hetch Hetchy Dam in Yosemite National Park. Perhaps in the greatest piece of environmental symbolism in the U.S. in a long time, on the California ballot this November is a measure to dismantle the Hetch Hetchy Dam. Muir’s legacy is that he reordered our priorities and contributed to a new scientific revolution that was picked up a generation later by Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, and is championed today by influential writers like E.O. Wilson and Jared Diamond. Heacox will take us into how Muir changed our world, advanced the science of glaciology and popularized geology. How he got people out there. How he gave America a new vision of Alaska, and of itself.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SIPRE Report written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arctec Incorporated
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf written by Arctec Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Department of Homeland Security
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States Coast Guard Operations in Alaska written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Department of Homeland Security and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: