Search Results for ‘Arctic’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Travel Writing’ - 11 matches found
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| Author: | Bear Grylls |
| Publisher: | Macmillan |
| Catalogue number: | 135918 |
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In June 2003, Bear Grylls and his team set out from Halifax, Nova Scotia, across the infamous Labrador Sea, one of the most treacherous stretches of water in the world. The team headed for the vast...
Shipwrecked on the Top of the World
| Author: | David Roberts |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Co |
| Catalogue number: | 130634 |
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In 1743 fourteen Walrus hunters from Russia were stranded on the icepack around Svalbard after a storm destroyed their ship. Marooned with minimal provisions but with their incredible endurance and...
| Author: | Elizabeth Kolbert |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Catalogue number: | 158572 |
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“The Ends Of The Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing On The Arctic and the Antarctic” features an international mix of classic first-person accounts of exploration, literary travelogues and works...
| Author: | Adam Jacot De Boinod |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Catalogue number: | 150604 |
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Did you know that people in Indonesia have a word that means "to take off your clothes in order to dance"? Or how many words the Albanians have for eyebrows and moustaches? Or the Dutch word for skimming...
The Polar World - The Unique Vision of Sir Wally Herbert
| Author: | Wally Herbert |
| Publisher: | Polarworld |
| Catalogue number: | 161794 |
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“The Polar World” captures the spirit of the Arctic and Antarctic as never seen before - through the eyes of Sir Wally Herbert, a man who is the bridge between the heroic age of exploration and modern...
| Author: | William Fiennes |
| Publisher: | Picador |
| Catalogue number: | 112793 |
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SHORTLISTED for the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Award
William Fiennes’ “The Snow Geese” is the profoundly moving account of both a physical and spiritual migration following snow geese in their spring journey...
| Author: | Adrian Flanagan |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Group |
| Catalogue number: | 171283 |
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In Over the Top, Adrian Flanagan recounts his journey as the first ever yachtsman to sail vertically around the world. One of the most difficult routes possible took Flanagan via Cape...
| Author: | Kenn Harper |
| Publisher: | Profile Books |
| Catalogue number: | 93733 |
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In this book the story of arctic exploration is told through the eyes of the Eskimos.
Minik and six other Inuit were taken from Greenland to New York in 1897. There they were put on display like circus...
| Author: | Richard Fortey |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Catalogue number: | 130574 |
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Fortey, a paleontologist by profession, has created an exceptional 'Intimate History' of the Earth. Adopting the role of enthusiastic guide, he leads the reader around and even into some of the world...
North-East Greenland 1908-60 - The Trapper Era
| Author: | Peter Schmidt Mikkelsen |
| Publisher: | Scott Polar Research Institute |
| Catalogue number: | 173025 |
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Peter Schmidt Mikkelsen’s North-East Greenland is a comprehensive survey of life in the polar north of the Arctic. Based on unpublished diaries and personal interviews with trappers and other pioneers...
| Author: | Sabine Baring-Gould |
| Publisher: | Signal |
| Catalogue number: | 132390 |
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Illustrated with Sabine Baring-Gould's own drawings, Iceland: Its Scenes and Sagas, is an entertaining and eccentric insight into a world of myth and legend as well as a classic of natural and human...
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At 66 1/2º north the sun never sets on the longest day of the year, yet never rises on the shortest. This is the Arctic Circle, encompassing a suprisingly large part of Europe, including northern Scandinavia, to the east of this the Kola Peninsula in Russia, Greenland to the west and the Norwegian-owned Svalbard archipelago 1,000 miles north of Norway.
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The Charlie Connelly Interview
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John Simpson, the renowned BBC world affairs editor,visited Stanfords in London to discuss his new book - Not Quite World’s End. John has graced our screens for 40 years in a career that has seen him reporting from the front line in various war-torn parts of the world...
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Ranulph Fiennes is one of Britain’s most famous expedition leaders. He found time in between adventures to stop into Stanfords to give some more insights into his fascinating life...
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