Author: Anderson Galleries, IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
Two Summers in Greenland
Author: Andreas Christian Riis CarstensenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greenland
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A Catalogue of a Very Complete Collection of Books and Pamphlets Relating to the American Civil War 1861-5
Author: Francis Perego HarperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
The Statesman's Year-book
Author: Frederick MartinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1550
Book Description
Arctic Bibliography
Author: Arctic Institute of North AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 1558
Book Description
The Pre-Columbian Discovery of America by the Northmen
Author: B[enjamin Franklin] De CostaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts
Author: Matthew Fontaine MauryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
The Best Adventure and Exploration Stories Ever Told
Author: Stephen BrennanPublisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1626365032
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
An exciting collection of dangerous adventures and groundbreaking exploration, The Best Adventure and Exploration Stories Ever Told compiles the works of authors from all over the world and from the very distant past to recent eras. Popular and well-known authors such as Herman Melville, Jack London, Joseph Conrad, and Jules Verne are featured, as well as Homer’s mythic tales and Iceland’s mesmerizing sagas from the tenth and eleventh centuries. Nonfiction stories add a riveting, realistic aspect of adventure to the collection. These include accounts from Shackleton’s polar expeditions; early American stories from the famed Lewis and Clark; spellbinding accounts of Magellan’s perilous expeditions to uncharted areas; and many more no less exciting. The stories compiled in this priceless collection represent a thousand years of adventure, expedition, danger, and discovery. They inspire as well as awe, and readers will find themselves with an urge to follow in these great adventurers’ footsteps. Ancient and modern escapades placed side by side make this book perfect for all who crave the adrenaline of adventure and discovery. This title is part of Skyhorse’s respected The Best Stories series, each of which is selectively edited and handcrafted to include only the best stories from the best writers of the genre.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Francis Perego HarperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
North America
Author: Ascott Robert Hope MoncrieffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Antarctic Exploration Parallels for Future Human Planetary Exploration: A Workshop Report
Author: Stephen J. HoffmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Outer space
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Four Antarctic explorers (Charles Bentley, Richard Cameron, Mario Giovinetto, and Charles Swithinbank) were invited to a workshop at Johnson Space Center (JSC) to provide expert assessments of NASA's current understanding of future human exploration missions beyond low Earth orbit. At JSC, the explorers were given tours of development, training, and scientific facilities, as well as documentation of operational scenarios for future planetary exploration. This report records their observations about these facilities and plans in answers to a series of questions provided to them before the workshop.