Author: Arctic Institute of North AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 1522
Book Description
The Story of Northland
Author: Alfred Hamish ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Auchland, N.Z. (Provincial District)
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Bear and the Northland
Author: Arthur G. SharpPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476649766
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the U.S. Coast Guard served as the Alaskan 911. Known then as simply the Revenue Cutter Service, it was comprised of skilled navigators, judges and law enforcement specialists tasked with preventing the frontier from descending into anarchy, and securing its status as a "cash cow" for the mainland states. This is the history of the early U.S. Coast Guard, with special focus on its former whalers-turned-cutters, the Bear and the Northland, and their voyages along the coast of Alaska, Hawaii and Greenland. Following the two vessels through history, chapters detail the diverse responsibilities that the "Coasties" had to face at the time, including capturing seal poachers and pirates, delivering babies, pulling natives' teeth and even engaging in combat with a German warship.
Arctic Bibliography
Author: Arctic Institute of North AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 1558
Book Description
The Geographical Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border
Author: Porter FoxPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393248860
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
“Romantic, urgent, valuable and appealing as hell.” —Andrew McCarthy, New York Times Book Review Writer Porter Fox spent three years exploring 4,000 miles of the border between Maine and Washington, traveling by canoe, freighter, car, and foot. In Northland, he blends a deeply reported and beautifully written story of the region’s history with a riveting account of his travels. Setting out from the easternmost point in the mainland United States, Fox follows explorer Samuel de Champlain’s adventures across the Northeast; recounts the rise and fall of the timber, iron, and rail industries; crosses the Great Lakes on a freighter; and traces the forty-ninth parallel from Minnesota to the Pacific Ocean. He weaves in his encounters with residents, border guards, Indian activists, and militia leaders to give a dynamic portrait of the northland today, wracked by climate change, water wars, oil booms, and border security.
Writing the Northland
Author: Barbara Stefanie GiehmannPublisher: Königshausen & Neumann
ISBN: 3826044592
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Expedition to the Antarctic Regions
Author: United States. Congress. House. AppropriationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
Author: A New Invasion of the South. Being a Narrative of the Expedition of the Seventy-first Infantry, National Guard, Through the Southern States, to New Orleans. February 24-March 7, 1881
Author: John F. CowanPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368857827
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
The End ... or ... a New Beginning?
Author: Helga GeePublisher: novum pro Verlag
ISBN: 3990649906
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Adam Brown, a British army Major in command of security for the British embassy in Beijing, learns of an impending Chinese nuclear strike against America. As all communications are compromised, Adam makes a coded call home for extraction - but as the flight he is sharing with a party of schoolgirls and their teachers crosses the Pacific, the clock runs out and IT happens. As a result the plane makes a forced landing onto a deserted island and they all have to work hard, not just to survive and to establish a new home, but to face up to the reality that it is in their hands to either die out or to make a future for themselves and humanity.