Vagrant Viking
Title | Vagrant Viking PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Freuchen |
Publisher | London : Victor Gollancz |
Pages | 474 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | Adventure and adventurers |
ISBN |
Vagrant Viking
Title | Vagrant Viking PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Freuchen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 1954 |
Genre | Pacific Ocean |
ISBN |
Hark! A Vagrant
Title | Hark! A Vagrant PDF eBook |
Author | Kate Beaton |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 2020-05-28 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1473585279 |
Since Kate Beaton appeared on the comics scene in 2007 her cartoons have become fan favourites and gathered an enormous following, appearing in the New Yorker, Harper and the LA Times, to name but a few. Her website, Hark! A Vagrant, receives an average of 1.2 million hits a month, 500 thousand of them unique. Why? Because she's not just making silly jokes. She's making jokes about everything we learned in school, and more. Praised for their expression, intelligence and comic timing, her cartoons are best known for their wonderfully light touch on historical and literary topics. The jokes are a knowing look at history through a very modern perspective, written for every reader, and are a crusade against anyone with the idea that history is boring. It's pretty hard to argue with that when you're laughing your head off at a comic about Thucydides. They also cover whatever's on her mind that week - be it the perils of city living or the pop-cultural infiltration of Sex and the City, featuring an array of characters, from a mischievous pony, to reinvented superheroes, to a surly teen duo who could be the anti-Hardy-Boys. Perceptive, sharp and wonderfully irreverent, Hark! A Vagrant is as informative as it is hilarious, and a comic collection to treasure.
Vagrant Viking My Life and Adventures - Scholar's Choice Edition
Title | Vagrant Viking My Life and Adventures - Scholar's Choice Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Freuchen |
Publisher | Scholar's Choice |
Pages | |
Release | 2015-02-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781298032232 |
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The Book of Unconformities
Title | The Book of Unconformities PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Raffles |
Publisher | Verse Chorus Press |
Pages | 415 |
Release | 2022-04-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1891241745 |
From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present. Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, and understanding. In this endlessly inventive, riveting book, Raffles enters these gaps, drawing together threads of geology, history, literature, philosophy, and ethnography to trace the intimate connections between personal loss and world historical events, and to reveal the force of absence at the core of contemporary life. Through deeply researched explorations of Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattan's Lenape, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived in New York City along with six Inuit adventurers in 1897, Raffles shows how unconformities unceasingly incite human imagination and investigation yet refuse to conform, heal, or disappear. A journey across eons and continents, The Book of Unconformities is also a journey through stone: this most solid, ancient, and enigmatic of materials, it turns out, is as lively, capricious, willful, and indifferent as time itself.
Polar Manual
Title | Polar Manual PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Naval Medical School, Bethesda, Md. Department of Cold Weather Medicine |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Arctic medicine |
ISBN |
Arctic Mirage
Title | Arctic Mirage PDF eBook |
Author | Winton U. Solberg |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2019-10-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1476679959 |
In 1913, an expedition was sent to the Arctic, funded by the American Museum of Natural History, the American Geographical Society and the University of Illinois. Its purpose was twofold: to discover whether an archipelago called Crocker Land--reportedly spotted by an earlier explorer in 1906--actually existed; and to engage in scientific research in the Arctic. When explorers discovered that Crocker Land did not exist, they instead pursued their research, made a number of important discoveries and documented the region's indigenous inhabitants and natural habitat. Their return to America was delayed by the difficulty of engaging a relief ship, and by the danger of German submarines in Arctic waters during the World War I.