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Author | : Mike Wilkinson |
Publisher | : Gareth Morgan Books |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0986457477 |
A photographic book spanning the Southern Ocean from Snares, Campbell and Auckland Islands and on to the Ross Sea and Antarctic Continent. These regions are portrayed by beautiful sweeping high resolution colour photographs that capture the scale, remoteness and the wildlife as well as the remnants of the historic expeditions in ways not previously achieved.--Publisher.
Author | : Elizabeth Leane |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2012-06-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107020824 |
This first comprehensive exploration of literary responses to Antarctica maps the far south as a space of the imagination.
Author | : Amyr Klink |
Publisher | : Sheridan House, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1574092596 |
Amyr Klink, whose sailing exploits have made him a hero in Brazil, tells of his daring singlehanded circumnavigation below the Antarctic Convergence. Surfing the waves in his custom-built 50-foot "aluminum red truck," PARATII, Klink enjoys the quiet confidence that comes from proper planning, common-sense technology, and a lifelong fascination with the history of Southern Ocean sailing. A modern Moitessier, sailing before an Aerorig mast, Klink proves his seamanship handling tricky boat repairs while underway, navigating icebergs, negotiating gales and williwaws, and surfing gigantic waves.
Author | : Jonathan Franzen |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374710740 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Notable Book “So funny, so sage and above all so incandescently intelligent” (The Chicago Tribune), the New York Times bestseller Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder, a daring and penetrating book from “the most intelligent novelist of [his] generation” (The New Republic), Jonathan Franzen Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life. Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world--including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong. Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original characters--Californians and East Germans, good parents and bad parents, journalists and leakers--and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes. Purity is the most daring and penetrating book yet by one of the major writers of our time.
Author | : Roald Amundsen |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3861952564 |
Account of the thrilling race to the south pole. With an introduction by Fridtjof Nansen.
Author | : Abram Joseph Ryan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : American poetry |
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Author | : Nelson Mandela |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Cuba |
ISBN | : 9780795707674 |
"Two world renowned revolutionary icons, Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro, meet for the first time in Cuba 1991. This book is the collection of their speeches from that auspicious day. Speaking at a rally, Mandela credits Cuba\2019s military support and involvement in Angola, and comments on Cuba\2019s assistance to debilitate the US-backed South African army, which resulted in the acceleration in the fight to bring down the apartheid government. Castro acknowledges the contribution of South Africans to the worldwide fight for justice. Mandela and Castro regarded each other as mentors -- and the world regards them as icons. Historians, researchers and activists will be keenly interested in this book."--Publisher description.
Author | : Isabel Wilkerson |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 2011-10-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0679763880 |
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winnner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties. Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic.
Author | : United States. Navy Department |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
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Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : American literature |
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