Think South
Автор: Cathy de Moll
Год издания: 0000
What does it take to move forty dogs, three sleds, twenty tons of food and gear, and six men from all over the world across nearly four thousand of the coldest miles on earth? Cathy de Moll, the executive director of the 1990 International Trans-Antarctica Expedition, introduces the wild cast of characters who made it happen, on the ice and off: leaders Will Steger and Jean-Louis Etienne, who first met accidentally, on the way to the North Pole; Valery Skatchkov, the Soviet bureaucrat who supplied a "hot" Russian airplane; Yasue Okimoto, who couldn't bear to leave headquarters in Minnesota while her boyfriend was on the ice; Qin Dahe, the Chinese member of the team, who didn't know how to ski; the millions of children who followed the expedition in schools around the world, learning about the fragility and ferocity of the seventh continent; and many others.<br /><br />These stories of near misses and magical coincidences are as suspenseful and compelling as the expedition's headlines—and they have never been told. But they also reflect the greatest lesson of the project: the international cooperation that was needed for the expedition's success is every bit as essential for the preservation of Antarctica today.
An account of travels into the interior of Southern Africa, in the years 1797 and 1798
Автор: John Barrow
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «An account of travels into the interior of Southern Africa, in the years 1797 and 1798 : including cursory observations on the geology and geography of the southern part of that continent, the natural history of such objects as occurred in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms, and sketches of the physical and moral characters of the various tribes of inhabitants surrounding the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope. To which is annexed, a description of the present state, population, and produce of that extensive colony / by John Barrow».
Travels and adventures in the Persian provinces on the southern banks of the Caspian Sea
Автор: James Baillie Fraser
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «Travels and adventures in the Persian provinces on the southern banks of the Caspian sea : with an appendix, containing short notices of the geology and commerce of Persia / by James B. Fraser».
An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. Vol. 2
Автор: William Mariner
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean : with an orig. grammar a. vocabulary of their language : in 2 vol. Vol. 2».
An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. Vol. 1
Автор: William Mariner
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean : with an orig. grammar a. vocabulary of their language : in 2 vol. Vol. 1».
Account of the war in Spain and Portugal, and in the south of France
Автор: John Thomas Jones
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «Account of the war in Spain and Portugal, and in the south of France : from 1808, to 1814 inclusive / by John T. Jones».