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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on history, anthropology, accounts of exploration, and observation, Hugh Raffles undertakes a journey to places north--to investigate the uncertain survival and unsettling presence of ancient stones and the alluring glimpse that these stones open into lives and meanings now faded from view. He travels to Iceland, to the once standing Odin Stone in the Orkney Islands, to the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides, to the coal mines of Spitsbergen,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between humans and the natural world where two great economic ideologies converge. Along the Bering Strait, through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia, Bathsheba Demuth explores an ecosystem that has long sustained human beings. Yet when Americans and Europeans arrived with self-serving ideas of human progress, the Chukchi and Seward Peninsulas and...
44) The sea wolf
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Classics. Humphrey Van Weydon is on his way to San Francisco when his ship crashes into another boat in the fog. Fate lands him on board a sealing schooner, The Ghost, bound for Japan, under the command of the hated Captain Wolf Larsen.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Sam finds himself involved in a dangerous adventure when he and his new friends, brother and sister Ben and Zara, set off for the Arctic to try and rescue the siblings' great-uncle and five other professors from the mad scientist holding them prisoner.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Sea ice and the midnight sun, flaming aurora and endless winter night--the arctic of traveler's tales and romantic novels is the unattainable dream of a vast and desolate world--the last imaginary place on Earth. Now, in this fascinating volume, renowned archeologist Robert McGhee lifts the veil to reveal the true Arctic. Combining anthropology, history, and personal memoir, this book dispels romanticized notions of the Arctic as a world apart, exotic...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"[The author] leads readers ... through the landscape, history, literature and politics of the North, from the wrongheaded theories of the ancients to diplomatic intrigues on the Arctic's borderlands, the brutality of the Soviet gulag archipelago, and the region's emergence as a strategically important source of energy."--Jacket p. [2].
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A memoir from permafrost scientist Katey Walter Anthony on her pioneering research studying methane emissions in Arctic lakes-which has made significant contributions to the climate change dialogue-as well as her search for family, faith, and belonging, on her journey to becoming a scientist"--
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"As the Earth's climate continues to warm, the permafrost melts, glaciers are receding and ice patches are shrinking. It is a unique time on our planet, one that has resulted in a treasury of preserved organic material (e.g., caribou droppings and human and animal remains) and inorganic artifacts (e.g., tools and clothing) is being revealed by the big melt, providing us with entirely new information about how people and animals lived up to several...
55) City of ice
Author
Series
City trilogy (Laurence Yep) volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
From the islands of Hawaii, Scirye and her loyal companions pursue the villainous Mr. Roland and evil dragon Badik all the way to the city of Nova Hafnia in the icy Arctic Circle, to prevent Roland from obtaining the power to alter the universe.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A shift of power is taking place at the top of the world. The Arctic is undergoing a dramatic change, and with this change one iconic Arctic hunter may soon have to give way to another as solid ice turns to open sea. The polar bear, once king of the North, needs ice to stalk its prey. Killer whales, or orca, on the other hand, are unable to hunt in an ocean locked in ice. As the ice increasingly disappears, the tables have turned. Polar bears are...
57) Liebre polar
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids Jumbo, an imprint of Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Any animal that lives in the Arctic is tough! This title looks into how the Arctic hare survives such cold and unforgiving conditions, what it eats, and more. The book is complete with large colorful photographs and a more facts section.
Author
Publisher
PowerKiDS Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The animals that call the Arctic home are animals who love the cold. They're made for it! As Earth's temperatures rise and global warming worsens, Arctic animals will have fewer places to call home. Inside this colorful and important volume, readers will see numerous threatened Arctic animals and learn why they are suffering. The book includes general information about what it means to be on the scale of threatened species, followed by specific examples....
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