Antarctic Adventures

Author: John Barell
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1504366522
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 300

Book Description
Antarctic Adventures is more than a set of guidelines for how to take control of our lives through goal setting, decision making, and problem solving. It is also an approach to living a productive life characterized by inquiry, critical thinking, learning to pay attention to natural wonders, and being fully awake to lifes mysteries and opportunities. Based on the authors experiences exploring Antarctica, this book finds life lessons in the most renowned polar explorers as well as those like Sally Ride, who explored outer space, and successful men and women in sports and business.

Lost Antarctica

Author: James McClintock
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780230112452
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
The bitter cold and three months a year without sunlight make Antarctica virtually uninhabitable for humans. Yet a world of extraordinary wildlife persists in these harsh conditions, including leopard seals, giant squid, 50-foot algae, sea spiders, coral, multicolored sea stars, and giant predatory worms. Now, as temperatures rise, this fragile ecosystem is under attack. In this closely observed account, one of the world's foremost experts on Antarctica gives us a highly original and distinctive look at a world that we're losing.

The Crossing of Antarctica

Author: Sir Vivian Fuchs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 374

Book Description

Antarctic Adventure

Author: Raymond Edward Priestley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antarctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 598

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Eagle on Ice

Author: Patricia Potter Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780533159550
Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A remarkable story that focuses on the 1928-1930 adventures of nineteen-year-old Paul Siple, the Eagle Scout selected to go on Commander Richard E. Byrd's first expedition to Antarctica.

Destination

Author: Robert Swan
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9780439087773
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
Follows the British adventurer Robert Swan and two other explorers on an exciting and dangerous 900-mile trek to the South Pole, following in the footsteps of Swan's childhood hero, Robert Falcon Scott, who made the journey exactly seventy-four years earlier.

The Adventures of a South Pole Pig

Author: Chris Kurtz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547634552
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Flora the pig was born for adventure: "If it's unexplored and needs to get dug up, call me. I'm your pig," she says. The day Flora spots a team of sled dogs is the day she sets her heart on becoming a sled pig. Before she knows it, she's on board a ship to Antarctica for the most exhilarating--and dangerous--adventure of her life. This poignant novel of a purposeful pig is sure to become a favorite with any young readers who have ever dreamed of exploring the great beyond.

Admiral Richard Byrd

Author: Paul Rink
Publisher: Young Voyageur
ISBN: 0760354359
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
Richard Byrd, survived six months alone at a tiny base in the Antarctic winter. His story is an epic of courage and an indomitable will to live.

Crossing Antarctica

Author: Will Steger
Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
ISBN: 0897328965
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
In March 1990, Will Steger completed what no man had ever before attempted: the crossing of Antarctica, a total of 3,700 miles, on foot. Lured by the challenge and the beauty of Earth's last great wilderness, and determined to focus the world's attention on the frozen continent now that its ecological future hangs in the balance, Steger and his International Trans–Arctica team performed an extraordinary feat of endurance.

Storms, Ice, and Whales

Author:
Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780802821256
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 391

Book Description
First published in the Dutch East Indies in 1934 and later in The Netherlands, this account of ven der Does' nine-month journey aboard a whaler sailing to the Antarctic in 1923-24 provides details of the flora and fauna, including penguins and albatross, and describes such natural phenomena as the colors of the ice, the sea, and the sky. He also chronicles in detail the workings of the ship and describes the crew and their tasks. Ven der Does writes of the solitude as "Nowhere else in the world can one so deeply comprehend the meaning of endlessness as at the Pole, with its vast desolation."