An introduction to the geography, climate, and inhabitants of the polar regions at the top and the bottom of the earth where the North Pole and the South Pole are located.
Proceedings from a conference on the North Pole and region. 35 papers under the headings: geophysics, geography (3); oceanography, climatology (4); myths, history of circumpolar cartography (2), history of exploration (16th-20th centuries) ...
Did you know why the North and South Poles are icy and cold? Yo learns the sun shines brightly in the middle of the earth at the equator but not at the polar regions. What will Yo learn using his globe?
Zimno jak w piekle . Tak zimno jeszcze rano w namiocie nie było . -22 ° C i wiatr . Bez słońca . Zobaczymy , jak to będzie w dzień . Przydałoby się choć trochę słoneczka . Żartuję z Wojtkiem , że aby nadrobić czas , będziemy szli bez ...
A boy decides to do the research for his school report by visiting the Arctic and learning about polar bears in person, but when the bear gets a little too close, he does the smart thing and heads home.
Tracing poles and polarity back to sacred ancient civilizations, this book explores how the idea of a North Pole has given rise to utopias, satires, fantasies, paradoxes and nationalist ideologies, from the Renaissance to the Third Reich ...
"A first-person account of the 1986 dog-sled expedition to the North Pole, the first to reach the North Pole without resupply since Robert E. Peary in 1909. A new afterword brings readers up to date on team members' lives"--