The Anare Antarctic Dog Drivers Manual

Author : Rod Ledingham
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514498022
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anare Antarctic Dog Driver’S Manual written by Rod Ledingham and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual has been written to gather together as much expertise available on the fine art of dog driving. It is intended as a practical manual for the care and running of the Mawson Station dogs. Each experienced individuals ideas on the subject of dog travel and driving vary to a greater or lesser degree, and therefore, some options will be given. However, in some areas, it is most important that expeditioners use the same techniques to ensure that the dogs are able to be driven safely and efficiently by different drivers. Some practices which may spoil the teams, such as running in front of leading the dogs, have to be discouraged and only used in tricky situations.

Author : Bernadette Hince
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643102329
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Antarctic Dictionary written by Bernadette Hince and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2000-11-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s most isolated continent has spawned some of the most unusual words in the English language. In the space of a mere century, a remarkable vocabulary has evolved to deal with the extraordinary environment and living organisms of the Antarctic and subantarctic. Here, for the first time, is a complete guide to the origin and definitions of Antarctic words. Like other historical dictionaries, The Antarctic Dictionary gives the reader quotations for each word. These quotations are the life-blood of the dictionary — more than 15 000 quotations from about 1000 different sources give the reader a unique insight into the way the language of Antarctica has evolved. The reader will find out what it means to be slotted, the shortcomings of homers, the joys of a donga and the hazards of a growler. The Antarctic Dictionary has been meticulously researched, and will appeal to all those who have been to the frozen continent or have ever dreamed of going there. It will also appeal to those fascinated by the development of language. With a forward by Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

Author : Mike Dumbleton
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 0857981978
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meet... Douglas Mawson written by Mike Dumbleton and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including the great Antarctic explorer, Sir Douglas Mawson. Douglas Mawson led the first Australian expedition to the Antarctic. Meet Douglas Mawson tells the story of how Mawson survived the dangers and challenges of the frozen continent. From Ned Kelly to Saint Mary MacKillop; Captain Cook to the ANZACS and Douglas Mawson, the Meet ... series of picture books tells the exciting stories of the men and women who have shaped Australia's history.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antarctic written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wendy Sharpe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957937420
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wendy Sharpe's Antarctica written by Wendy Sharpe and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
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Download or read book Search written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dave Long
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ISBN 13 : 9780646151991
Total Pages : 200 pages
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Download or read book Knowing Australian Volkswagens written by Dave Long and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 662 pages
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Download or read book Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112050443578 and Others written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Fraser
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1608445941
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Curious Than Cautious written by Peter Fraser and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Trekking Around Australia and Beyond" is a tale of a challenge that included a visit into the "Dead Heart" of the continent where there is little life to be seen. Come meet Aborigines still living their Old Stone Age ways. There was just enough sustainable life for the earliest form of human culture to eek out an existence hunting lizards, grubs, perhaps a snake or rabbit, a few birds and rarely a "roo." Watch my companions hunt kangaroos where cattle graze at two square miles per head. Pass through an area about a fifth the size of the USA with enough herbage for sheep and for small towns to sprout. It is not until the fringes of the coast that there is enough green to satisfy the needs of a population. This adventure tale brings the reader from the most primitive human culture to the exhilarating surfing life on the southeast coast. Peter Fraser was born and raised on Long Island, New York. The random courses selected at Cornell University: languages, arts, history, geology and sociology, qualified him for a B.A. in Anthropology. After earning a M. S. in Education at Hofstra College, he taught in three states where there was nearby skiing, and in Arizona for the ranch lifestyle where he coached cowboy polo. Vacations supplied the time for travel which he pursued avidly. After solo trips around Europe to broaden his background, he decided to hitch-hike the Pan American Highway, from Venezuela along the west coast of South America to Bolivia and back. At this level he met the people who lived there and shared their lifestyle. It was great adventure, but survival was never a certainty. Only incredible good luck brought him back alive. This book concerns his nine month visit to Australia and back to New York through south Asia and the Near East.

Author : Regina W. Daly
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ISBN 13 : 9781852971045
Total Pages : 360 pages
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Download or read book The Shackleton Letters written by Regina W. Daly and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest Shackleton was obsessed by the Antarctic. He had written to his sister saying 'You can't think what it is like to walk over places where no man has walked before.' He was disappointed at his showing during Scott's Discovery Expedition-he had collapsed and spent much of the time as a passenger - and possibly felt that Scott had to a degree blamed him for the ultimate failure of the expedition.He wanted to be first to the South Pole, partly for the glory but also because he felt he had to redeem himself after Scott sent him back on the relief ship in 1903, because of his "ill health". Raising the money for another expedition was fraught with difficulties but in 1907 he finally set sail, aboard the Nimrod. Here, gathered together for the first time, are 156 letters and telegrams exploring the inner thoughts of an heroic man with far-reaching dreams. His emotions are revealed through personal correspondence with Scott, Dr. Edward Wilson, Sir Clements Markham and many others. They give an insight not only into the mind and character of this great explorer but into the internal politics of the time. The author details the history leading up to the expedition, through the trials of the year on the ice and the various journeys and then the return to England and the reception they received from the public, the press and such as the Royal Geographic Society. Correspondence covering the dismissal of Captain England, Shackleton's 'bequests' in the event of his non-return from his attempt to reach the Pole and his worries about the financial situation are included and the last section of the book reproduces Shackleton's intimate letters to his wife, Emily, and to Elspeth Beardmore, for whom he had a deep affection.