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The Ice Master
Hyperion 2001; US$ 9.95The riveting story of the 1913 expedition of twenty-five people who sailed out of British Columbia in search of an undiscovered Arctic continent. But tragedy struck in January 1914 when an ice cap tore a hole in the vessel's hull, shipwrecking all on board. The castaways abandoned ship and suffered from battle starvation, snow blindness, exposure... more...
Landscape Development and Climate Change in Southwest Bulgaria (Pirin Mountains)
Springer 2010; US$ 99.99"Landscape Development and Climate Change in Southwest Bulgaria" aims to address some of the current limitations in our understanding of past Balkan climate and environment. High mountains and their ecosystems offer an outstanding opportunity for studies on the impact of climate change. The Balkan Mountains in Southeast Europe, situated at... more...
Mit Kurs auf Thule
Konrad Theiss Verlag 2011; US$ 21.73Hauptbeschreibung Draufgänger im rauen Nordwind »Gott schütze uns vor dem Zorn der Nordmänner!« war im Mittelalter ein verbreitetes Stoßgebet gegen die Schrecken der Meere. Vergleichsweise friedlich segelten andere Wikinger wie Leif Erikson in wagemutigen Expeditionen bis nach Amerika. Leif Erikson hat es vorgemacht, Kolumbus hat es nachgemacht... more...
Exotic Lands and Dodgy Places
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Ptd Ltd 2010; US$ 12.80Distant Lands and Dodgy Places chronicles the adventures of intrepid traveller Tan Wee Cheng ? from witnessing an Eskimo seal hunt in icy Greenland to meeting Chinese stranded in Paraguay and The Amazon, and arriving in chaotic Comoros just as a volcanic eruption threatens to blow the capital apart. Hot on the heels of his runaway success Hot Spots... more...
The Ambitions of Jane Franklin
Allen & Unwin 2013; US$ 22.72A genius at publicity before the term existed, Jane Franklin was a celebrity in the mid-19th century. This is her remarkable life, including her extensive travels, her years in Tasmania as the governor's wife, and her very public battle to save husban more...
Farthest North
Random House Publishing Group 2000; US$ 27.00In 1893 Nansen set sail in the Fram, a ship specially designed and built to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel with the sea's drift closer to the North Pole than anyone had ever gone before. Experts said such a ship couldn't be built and that the voyage was tantamount to suicide. This brilliant first-person... more...
American Empire
University of California Press 2003; US$ 39.95An American Empire, constructed over the last century, long ago overtook European colonialism, and it has been widely assumed that the new globalism it espoused took us "beyond geography." Neil Smith debunks that assumption, offering an incisive argument that American globalism had a distinct geography and was pieced together as part of a powerful... more...
Coming Home to China
University of Minnesota Press 2007; US$ 55.50In 2005, distinguished geographer Yi-Fu Tuan ventured to China to speak at an architectural conference, returning for the first time to the place he had left as a child sixty-four years before. In this enchanting volume, Tuans childhood memories and musings on the places he encountered during his homecoming are interspersed with new lectures, engaging... more...
Complex Locations
Wiley 2009; US$ 94.95This enlightening book makes visible the lives and works of women who played a critical role in the development of geography as an academic field. A rare and detailed analysis of the geographical work of 30 individual women geographers from 1850 to 1970 Includes oral histories from women who have held appointments in British universities since World... more...
Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscape
LSU Press 2009; US$ 35.00Perhaps one of the most distinctive and studied geographers of the twentieth century, Carl O. Sauer (1889?1975) had influence that extends well beyond the confines of any one discipline. With a focus on historical and cultural geography, Sauer?s essays have garnered praise from poets, natural historians, and social scientists alike who continue to... more...









