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Forty Years on Ice: A Lifetime of Exploration and Research in the Polar Regions

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Description:From the front end-paper of the dustjacket:“Exploration is perhaps the oldest pursuit of modern man. Despite the continuing investigation of our solar system and beyond, terrestrial exploration is by no means complete. The last forty years have seen a huge increase in our knowledge of the most remote and inaccessible areas of our planet. Charles Swithinbank is a glaciologist who has had more places named after him than any living explorer and whose pioneering polar expeditions are detailed here for the first time. This thrilling first-hand account describes the circumnavigation of Baffin Island by icebreaker; travelling in the largest ship ever to penetrate the ice of the Northwest Passage; sailing under the ice of the North Pole in Britain’s first ever nuclear submarine; and the extensive exploration of the coldest, highest, and driest continent; Antarctica.Vividly illustrated with eighty colour photographs, Forty Years on Ice brings to the reader the sheer beauty of the landscapes through which these incredible journeys were made, and allows a glimpse of the unique vision which drives the scientist to continue to explore this world’s most extreme terrain.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Forty Years on Ice: A Lifetime of Exploration and Research in the Polar Regions. To get started finding Forty Years on Ice: A Lifetime of Exploration and Research in the Polar Regions, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: The Book Guild Ltd (Sussex, England)

Release: 1998

ISBN: 1857762614

Description: From the front end-paper of the dustjacket:“Exploration is perhaps the oldest pursuit of modern man. Despite the continuing investigation of our solar system and beyond, terrestrial exploration is by no means complete. The last forty years have seen a huge increase in our knowledge of the most remote and inaccessible areas of our planet. Charles Swithinbank is a glaciologist who has had more places named after him than any living explorer and whose pioneering polar expeditions are detailed here for the first time. This thrilling first-hand account describes the circumnavigation of Baffin Island by icebreaker; travelling in the largest ship ever to penetrate the ice of the Northwest Passage; sailing under the ice of the North Pole in Britain’s first ever nuclear submarine; and the extensive exploration of the coldest, highest, and driest continent; Antarctica.Vividly illustrated with eighty colour photographs, Forty Years on Ice brings to the reader the sheer beauty of the landscapes through which these incredible journeys were made, and allows a glimpse of the unique vision which drives the scientist to continue to explore this world’s most extreme terrain.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Forty Years on Ice: A Lifetime of Exploration and Research in the Polar Regions. To get started finding Forty Years on Ice: A Lifetime of Exploration and Research in the Polar Regions, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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