Hardcover, First Edition, 1993, Ohio State University Press, 418 pp. Very good DUST JACKET, two minute closed tears in d.j., d.j. in mylar cover, clean volume, contents include 12 maps, list of abbreviations, glossary, bibliography, and index, profusely illustrated with b/w line drawings. 7"x10"

SILAS: THE ANTARCTIC DIARIES AND MEMOIR OF CHAR

BULL, COLIN

Biographies & Memoirs

Ohio State University Press

This collection of journals, memoirs, and letters tells the remarkable story of Robert Falcon Scott's last journey to the Antarctic, as seen through the eyes of Charles S. Wright, the expedition's physicist and glaciologist. When Captain Scott left Britain in 1910 on his second and last Antarctic expedition, he took with him the most comprehensive party of scientists yet to visit the continent. Among them was Charles Wright, a young Canadian. During the thirty-month expedition, Wright proved to be a keen observer, keeping an account of the adventure in his diaries and letters. Detailing both his scientific discoveries and his reactions to the hardships and wonders of the expedition, Wright's story culminates in the dramatic search for and discovery of Scott and two other members of the party who perished on their return to their base camp from an expedition to the Pole. Wright's diaries, illustrated in brilliant detail by his daughter Pat F. Wright, have been edited by Pat Wright and by polar explorer and glaciologist Colin Bull. They provide an insider's view of a significant adventure in advancement of polar scientific discovery. Colin Bull, dean emeritus at The Ohio State University, has conducted extensive glaciological and geophysical research in the Antarctic and the Arctic over the last forty years. Pat F. Wright is a nature artist and owns a wildlife artists' gallery on Saltspring Island, British Columbia.

Silas: The Antarctic Diaries and Memoir of Charles S. Wright

Literature & Fiction

Wright, Pat F

Essays & Correspondence

Innocents in the Dry Valleys: An Account of the Victoria Univesity of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, 1958-59

History

World

Victoria University Press

This book describes why your life - is the way it is! Why things never seem to change and go the way that you would like them to go, no matter how positive you are about them. Why all your hopes and wishes never materialise, and life just seems to plod on in the same old way. You may look around and see things in other peoples lives that you would like in yours, and wonder why they have them, seemingly effortlessly? Whether its health, wealth, success, love, power, or any other that is missing, you don't have it, and you don't think that you have the power to bring it forth. This book shows you how to find what is controlling your life, and how to change it, so you can have whatever you desire. How you are lost in your own beliefs that, then form your reality. How to find happiness, where to look for it! How to let go of the baggage and see what is really going on! Find out 'Who' and 'What' you are, and 'Why' you are here! Find out the nature of Good and Evil, and why they both have to exist, and how they are actually 'One'. The nature of ill Health and how to extract yourself from it, while revealing how you were lost in it! How to remove yourself from dis-empowerment and the dis-empowerment of Religion. How Eternal life is what - you are! How you view your life now, not only changes you 'future', but also your 'Past'. How to set yourself free, and get back to being 'Happy' by default, and much, much more...

Whose Reality: How to have the life you have always wanted!

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

In the summer of 1958, physicist Colin Bull, along with a biologist and two undergraduate geology students from Victoria University of Wellington, launched an exploration of the Dry Valleys of Victoria Land, Antarctica—the first of what has become an annual expedition spanning the past fifty years. With Innocents in Dry Valleys Bull recounts the story of that first, shoestring expedition, bringing a dry wit—and a clear appreciation of youthful bravado—to accounts of adverse conditions, recurrent dangers, funding snafus, and bureaucratic meddling. Innocents in Dry Valleys is a winning account of a landmark expedition, sure to interest scientists and armchair explorers alike.

Innocents in the Dry Valleys: An Account of the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, 1958-59

Arctic & Antarctica

University of Alaska Press

Innocents in the Arctic: The 1951 Spitsbergen Expedition

Driven by the desire for scientific discovery and adventure, ten naive young men ventured north to the nearly uninhabited, ice-covered island of Spitsbergen in 1951. Scientific progress ensued, but so did misfortunes wrought by calamitous weather, an unworthy ship, and an entertaining but ill-informed approach to arctic survival.Innocents in the Arctic chronicles this Birmingham University expedition with an absorbing combination of wit and historical insight. Compiled from diaries, scientific field notes, and the author's memories, it documents an important period in polar exploration following the social upheaval of World War II. It also brings to life the labors of arctic travel before modern technology: the Birmingham researchers hauled their own sledge and communicated with hand-scrawled notes pinned to their leaky canvas tents. Despite these difficulties, the expedition was a scientific success and helped to unravel a geological puzzle--why were relatively recent fossils entombed within rocks that were twice as old? The answers to this question and others contributed to an understanding of the evolution of the North Atlantic.The members of the Spitsbergen Expedition saw themselves as fallible and human, and their struggles create a compelling alternative to traditional polar heroism. Bull's realistic, insider story of scientific adventure will appeal to polar enthusiasts, armchair historians, and anyone who remembers what it was like to be young and daring.

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Europe

Europese Bibliotheek B.V., Uitgeverij Boekhandel A

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