Ninety Degrees North

Author : Fergus Fleming
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802197531
Total Pages : 699 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ninety Degrees North written by Fergus Fleming and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Barrow’s Boys offers a fascinating look at the exploration of the Arctic in the nineteenth century. Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, the Seattle Times, Publishers Weekly, and Time In the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole ran rampant. Was it an open sea? Was it a portal to new worlds within the globe? Or was it just a wilderness of ice? When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1845, explorers decided it was time to find out. In scintillating detail, Ninety Degrees North tells of the vying governments (including the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and Austria-Hungary) and fantastic eccentrics (from Swedish balloonists to Italian aristocrats) who, despite their heroic failures, often achieved massive celebrity as they battled shipwreck, starvation, and sickness to reach the top of the world. Drawing on unpublished archives and long-forgotten journals, Fergus Fleming recounts this riveting saga of humankind’s search for the ultimate goal with consummate craftsmanship and wit. “Barely a page goes by without the loss of a crew member or a body part . . . Fleming [is] a marvelous teller of tales—and a superb thumbnail biographer.” —The Observer “A fable of men driven to extremes by the lust for knowledge as epic as a Greek myth.” —Time

Author : Thomas McGuane
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 146685829X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ninety-Two in the Shade written by Thomas McGuane and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiring of the company of junkies and burn-outs, Thomas Skelton goes home to Key West to take up a more wholesome life. But things fester in America's utter South. And Skelton's plans to become a skiff guide in the shining blue subtropical waters place him on a collision course with Nichol Dance, who has risen to the crest of the profession by dint of infallible instincts and a reputation for homicide. Out of their deadly rivalry, Thomas McGuane has constructed a novel with the impetus of a thriller and the heartbroken humor that is his distinct contribution to American prose. "Full of surprises and rewards and an exhilaration one feels only rarely." Newsweek on Ninety-Two in the Shade.

Author : Paul Gilroy
Publisher : Soul Jazz Records
ISBN 13 : 9780957260030
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 90 Degrees of Shade written by Paul Gilroy and published by Soul Jazz Records. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calypso, Voodoo, Sunshine, Communism, Reggae, Colonialism, The Slave Trade, Rum, Revolution, Industry and Tourism - 100 years of the Caribbean image and identity is captured in this deluxe new hardback photography book. The image of the Caribbean is as much a creation of the outsider as it is the complex identity of its people - a melting pot of races created out of the participants in the 400 year slave trade - enforced Africans, indigenous Americans and their colonisers - French, Spanish, German, Dutch, English. The identity of the Caribbean stands at this intersection of tourism, the detritus of the slave trade, colonialism and tropicality. The regions politics span a hot bed of ideas and radicalism - from Castro's Cuba, communist thorn in the side of North America, to the violent right-wing dictatorship of Haiti's Papa Doc in the 1960s; from Manley's Jamaica in the 1970s to Eric Williams' Trinidad in the 1960s. This book is a deluxe large format hardback book featuring 100s of fascinating and unique photographs that span one hundred years of Caribbean history, culture, industry and more as well as the subsequent diaspora of its people to America, England and elsewhere. The photographs show the many ways in which the region is portrayed - from luscious and tropical backdrop of tourism and hedonism, to colonial outpost and revolutionary threat within North America's own backyard.

Author : Fergus Fleming
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802137944
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barrow's Boys written by Fergus Fleming and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes a series of nineteenth-century British expeditions into Africa, the Arctic, and Antarctica, chronicling the adventures of explorers who ventured into some of the most perilous unknown regions of the world.

Author : Fergus Fleming
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802197523
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sword and the Cross written by Fergus Fleming and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] searing story of France’s attempt to colonize the vast Sahara desert and of two unforgettable men who dedicated their lives to the effort.” —Rob Mitchell, The Boston Herald Whether writing of the Alps, the high seas, or the North Pole, Fergus Fleming has won acclaim as one of today’s most vivid and engaging historians of adventure and exploration. The Sword and the Cross takes us to the Sahara at the end of the nineteenth century, when France had designs on a hostile wilderness dominated by deadly Tuareg nomads. Two fanatical adventurers, Charles de Foucauld and Henri Laperrine, rose to the cause of their country’s national honor. Abandoning his decadent lifestyle as a sensualist and womanizer, Foucauld founded a monastic order so severe that during his lifetime it never had a membership of more than one. Yet he remained a committed imperialist and from his remote hermitage continued to assist the military. The stern career soldier Laperrine, meanwhile, founded a camel corps whose exploits became legendary. During World War I the Sahara’s fragile peace crumbled. In the desert mountains Foucauld paid a tragic price for his role as imperial pawn. Laperrine, by then recalled to the Western Front, returned to avenge his friend. “Fleming captures the hopelessness of the French efforts to conquer the Saharan expanse . . . Provides a vital lesson about the limits of power.” —Zachary Karabell, Los Angeles Times

Author : Jacques Wardlaw Redway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Elementary Geography written by Jacques Wardlaw Redway and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leon Orlando Wiswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globes and Maps in Elementary Schools written by Leon Orlando Wiswell and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Bright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0711254745
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North Pole / South Pole written by Michael Bright and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully-illustrated and with a fun and innovative flip-book format, the book provides the perfect way to explore and compare the extreme environments of the two Poles. Take a trip to the ends of the earth and discover the extreme environments of the North and South Poles. Find out which animals live where, what the weather and climate is like and the effect global warming is having. Beginning with the North Pole, the book introduces the geography and climate of the Arctic. Readers will discover how climate change is affecting sea ice and why multi-year ice is so important to walruses and polar bears. Find out what ice floes are and what lives under the ice. The many uses of the Arctic are explained, from the home it provides to whale hunters to the rocket and missile test sites it houses. And then flip the book over and you arrive in the South Pole... The famous race to reach the pole in 1911 is retold and readers will discover why the orca is the ultimate polar predator. The huge tabular icebergs, sub-glacial lakes, and ice chimneys of the Antarctic are brought to life in all their impressive glory, not to mention the sea spiders, 'death star' starfish and other undersea giants!

Author : Robert Joseph Sullivan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geography generalized; or, An introduction to the study of geography on the principles of classification and comparison written by Robert Joseph Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Sullivan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geography Generalized, Or, An Introduction to the Study of Geography on the Principles of Classification and Comparison, with Maps and Illustrations, and Introductions to Astronomy, History and Geology written by Robert Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: