Ice Roads
Title | Ice Roads PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Canfield |
Publisher | Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2016-12-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1482457733 |
Not every road can be perfectly paved and dry. In fact, some roads are made of ice! These ice roads are needed to get supplies to faraway and often dangerous places where snow and ice are constant threats. From truckers battling wintry conditions to deliver construction supplies to people in places like Alaska simply trying to get to work on time, readers will love exploring how people use ice roads to safely drive from place to place. Through full-color photographs showing how these roads are made and maintained, readers take an inside look at some impressive transportation navigation in some of Earths deadliest places.
Denison's Ice Road
Title | Denison's Ice Road PDF eBook |
Author | Edith Iglauer |
Publisher | Harbour Publishing Company |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781550170412 |
In savage blizzards, blinding whiteouts and 60-below-zero temperatures, steel axles snap like twigs; brakes and steering wheels seize up; bare hands freeze when they touch metal. The lake ice cracks and sometimes gives way, so the roadbuilders drive with one hand on the door, ready to jump. John Denison and his crew waited for the coldest, darkest days of winter every year to set out to build a 520-kilometre road made of ice and snow, from Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories to a silver mine on Great Bear Lake, above the Arctic Circle - this is their story. Edith Iglauer was the first outsider ever to accompany them as they worked. This book, her chronicle of a gruelling, fascinating journey through Canada's north, has sold over 20,000 copies since its first publication in 1974.
Road Out of Winter
Title | Road Out of Winter PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Stine |
Publisher | MIRA |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2020-09-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1488056498 |
A teenage girl treks across a dangerous, frozen nation to reunite with her family in this Philip K. Dick Award–winning apocalyptic thriller. Wylodine comes from a world of paranoia and poverty. Her family grows marijuana illegally in order to survive. But now she’s been left behind in Ohio to tend the crop alone. Then spring doesn’t return for the second year in a row, bringing unprecedented, extreme winter. With grow lights stashed in her truck and a pouch of precious seeds, Wil begins a journey to join her family in California. But the icy roads and strangers hidden in the hills are treacherous. Gathering a small group of exiles on her way, she becomes the target of a volatime cult leader. Because she has the most valuable skill in the climate chaos: she can make things grow. Road Out of Winter offers a glimpse into an all-too-possible near future, with a chosen family forged in the face of dystopian collapse. Alison Stine’s acclaimed debut “blends a rural thriller and speculative realism into what could be called dystopian noir” (Library Journal, starred review).
Roads and Airfields
Title | Roads and Airfields PDF eBook |
Author | U.S. Army Engineer School |
Publisher | |
Pages | 730 |
Release | 1951 |
Genre | Military roads |
ISBN |
Roads and Airfields
Title | Roads and Airfields PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Department of the Army |
Publisher | |
Pages | 718 |
Release | 1957 |
Genre | Military roads |
ISBN |
Snow Roads and Runways
Title | Snow Roads and Runways PDF eBook |
Author | Gunars Abele |
Publisher | |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Civil engineering |
ISBN |
Roads and Airfields in Cold Regions
Title | Roads and Airfields in Cold Regions PDF eBook |
Author | Ted S. Vinson |
Publisher | ASCE Publications |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 1996-01-01 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9780784474129 |
This state-of-the-practice report on the design and development of roads and airfields is the eighth monograph in a series prepared by the Technical Council on Cold Regions Engineering of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Previous reports in the series covered such topics as frost action and its control embankment design, and arctic coastal processes. This book discusses such topics as: 1) Route-location/siting; 2) frost action; 3) design for permafrost conditions; 4) low temperature cracking; 5) maintenance; 6) use of geosynthetics; and 7) materials specifications and testing. This monograph contributes a substantial amount of new material to the Cold Regions Engineering series.