Author: Arctic Institute of North America. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Arctic Institute of North America. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Alaska and adjacent Canada, Arctic Canada, North Atlantic Islands
Author: American Geographical Society of New York. Department of Exploration and Field ResearchPublisher:
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Category : Glaciers
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Polar Human Biology
Author: O. G. EdholmPublisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 1483165078
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Polar Human Biology documents the proceedings of the SCAR/IUPS/IUBS Symposium on Human Biology and Medicine in the Antarctic held at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England on September 19-21, 1972. This book compiles review papers of expeditions conducted by several scientists, demonstrating the multidisciplinary aspects of the work carried out in both polar regions. The first portion of the compilation describes the problems encountered by Antarctic expeditions in the 1930s and today, which illustrates the tremendous changes in the way in which Antarctic expeditions operated then and now. Following the review papers, medical and dental aspects are also described, including a brief discussion on microbiology. The final section of this book deals with psychological and behavioral aspects, indicating that the interpretation of physiological studies of the effects of cold on man would be greatly helped by knowledge of the psychological effects of the polar situation. This text is a good reference for students or individuals conducting research on human and marine biology in the Antarctic regions.
A History of Antarctic Science
Author: Gordon Elliott FoggPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521361132
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
This is the first book to draw together a history of science in Antarctica.
Environment of the Greenland Ice Cap
Author: Donald W. HoguePublisher:
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Category : Greenland
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Bibliography on the Climate of Greenland
Author: Thomas A. BenderPublisher:
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Category : Climatology
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Arranged alphabetically within ten year groups.
Higher and Colder
Author: Vanessa HeggiePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022665091X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
During the long twentieth century, explorers went in unprecedented numbers to the hottest, coldest, and highest points on the globe. Taking us from the Himalaya to Antarctica and beyond, Higher and Colder presents the first history of extreme physiology, the study of the human body at its physical limits. Each chapter explores a seminal question in the history of science, while also showing how the apparently exotic locations and experiments contributed to broader political and social shifts in twentieth-century scientific thinking. Unlike most books on modern biomedicine, Higher and Colder focuses on fieldwork, expeditions, and exploration, and in doing so provides a welcome alternative to laboratory-dominated accounts of the history of modern life sciences. Though centered on male-dominated practices—science and exploration—it recovers the stories of women’s contributions that were sometimes accidentally, and sometimes deliberately, erased. Engaging and provocative, this book is a history of the scientists and physiologists who face challenges that are physically demanding, frequently dangerous, and sometimes fatal, in the interest of advancing modern science and pushing the boundaries of human ability.
Manuscripts in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England
Author: Scott Polar Research InstitutePublisher: New York : Garland Pub.
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Details of the manuscripts held by the Scott Polar Research Institute which include many journals of expeditions to the arctic and antarctic.
Shackleton's Dream
Author: Stephen HaddelseyPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752477722
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
In November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton watched horrified as the grinding ice floes of the Weddell Sea squeezed the life from his ship, Endurance . Caught in the chaos of splintered wood, buckled metalwork and tangled rigging lay Shackleton's dream of being the first man to complete the crossing of Antarctica. Shackleton would not live to make a second attempt – but his dream endured. Shackleton's Dream tells for the first time the story of the British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary. Forty years after the loss of Endurance, they set out to succeed where Shackleton had so heroically failed. Using tracked vehicles and converted farm tractors in place of Shackleton's man-hauled sledges, they faced a colossal challenge: a perilous 2,000-mile journey across the most demanding landscape on the planet. This epic adventure saw two giants of twentieth-century exploration pitted not only against Nature at her most hostile, but also against each other. Planned as a historic (and scientific) continental crossing, the expedition would eventually develop into a dramatic 'Race to the South Pole' – a contest as controversial as that of Scott and Amundsen more than four decades earlier.
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