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Author | : Natasha Rao |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2021-09-02 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780986093845 |
Chosen as the winner of the 2021APR/Honickman First Book Prize by Guggenheim Fellow Ada Limón, Natasha Rao's debut collection Latitude abounds with sensory delights, rich in colors, flavors, and sounds. These poems explore the complexities of family, cultural identity, and coming of age. By turns vulnerable and bold, Latitudeindulges in desire: "In my next life let me be a tomato/lusting and unafraid," Rao writes, "...knowing I'll end up in an eager mouth."
Author | : Samuel Dunn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 1778 |
Genre | : Latitude |
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Author | : Nicholas Crane |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2021-10-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1643137964 |
Latitude is a gloriously exciting tale of adventure and scientific discovery that has never been told before. Crane, the former president of the Royal Geographic Society, documents the remarkable expedition undertaken by a group of twelve European adventurer-scientists in the mid-eighteenth century. The team spent years in South America, scaling volcanoes and traversing jungles before they achieved their goal of establishing the exact shape of the Earth by measuring the length of 1 degree latitude at the equator. Their endeavors were not limited to this one achievement. Not only did their discovery open up the possibility for safe, accurate navigation across the seas, they also discovered rubber and quinine. With a narrative that reads like it was taken from the script of an adventure movie, Nicholas Crane brings to life a narrative that is a timely remind of how scientific discovery can change the world and our future. By knowing the shape of the earth we can create maps, survive the oceans, navigate the skies, and travel across the globe. Without latitude, maps and navigation wouldn’t be accurate, lives would have been lost, and exact locations of cities and rivers would never be known. After ten grueling years in search of a magic number, the survivors returned to Europe with their historical discovery and fueled the public’s interest in science. Twent-five years ago, Dava Sobel’s bestselling Longitude was a global publishing phenomenon, yet it told only one half of the story. With Latitude, this cornerstone piece of our shared history is now complete with this tale of a trip that changed the course of human civilization. Filled with raw excitement and danger, Latitude brings the challenges that faced these explorer-scientists to vivid life.
Author | : William Lax |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1821 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Latitude variation |
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Author | : John GOOD (Teacher of Mathematics.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1706 |
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Author | : Brian P. Wernicke |
Publisher | : Geological Society of America |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0813711762 |
Author | : N. D. FALCK |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1778 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Jill Fredston |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2002-10-10 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1429931108 |
Two by sea: a couple rows the wild coasts of the far north in Rowing to Latitude: Journeys Along the Arctic's Edge. Jill Fredston has traveled more than twenty thousand miles of the Arctic and sub-Arctic-backwards. With her ocean-going rowing shell and her husband, Doug Fesler, in a small boat of his own, she has disappeared every summer for years, exploring the rugged shorelines of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Spitsbergen, and Norway. Carrying what they need to be self-sufficient, the two of them have battled mountainous seas and hurricane-force winds, dragged their boats across jumbles of ice, fended off grizzlies and polar bears, been serenaded by humpback whales and scrutinized by puffins, and reveled in moments of calm. As Fredston writes, these trips are "neither a vacation nor an escape, they are a way of life." Rowing to Latitude is a lyrical, vivid celebration of these northern journeys and the insights they inspired. It is a passionate testimonial to the extraordinary grace and fragility of wild places, the power of companionship, the harsh but liberating reality of risk, the lure of discovery, and the challenges and joys of living an unconventional life.
Author | : sir Charles Frederick A. Shadwell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : Navigation |
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