WHAT NOT TO DO WHEN VENTURING TO THE POLES (especially when you're the first British woman to try it) * Decide to take up the challange in a haze of alchohol one New Year's Eve * Crash the BBC global email system with your fundraising requests * Do no training whatsoever prior to departure, except the odd aerobics class * Pack 300 Malboro Lights into your sled * Fail to put on the requisite 3 stone to help stave off cold and hunger * Forget to buy any gloves so stop off at Snow and Rock on High St Ken for a pair on the way to the airport * Ignore finger going black with frostbite to avoid making a fuss * Get so drunk in the plane to the North Pole that Canada refuses you entry as an undesirable alien * Forget to eat or sleep for three days before setting off Catharine Hartley did all these things and still made it to both poles. TO THE POLES WITHOUT A BEARD tells her hilarious and incredible story.
Daerah kutub
本书分为北极篇和南极篇两部分,记录了"雪龙"船在一年间执行中国第三次北极科学考察和第二十五次南极科学考察的实事点滴,穿插以往中外极地考察史上的重大事件及极地科普知识 ...
Using a question and answer format, focuses on life at the north and south poles, the animals that flourish there, the men who exploded then, and the past and future of the Arctic and Antarctic.
A collection of true adventure stories and retellings of remarkable journeys, all based around the Poles. The volume seeks to encourage even the most reluctant reader to pick up a book.
Very seldom have I experienced so clearly defined the connection between the artist and what he sees, feels, and does with the work itself."--Robert Redford
"Account of the 22-month voyage by Brazilian navigator Klink on a sailboat from Rio de Janeiro to the Antarctic Peninsula and on to the northern Spitsbergen Islands through Capetown.
This is Klink's account of a figure-of-eight solo voyage from Brazil to the South Pole, across to Cape Town; then up to the North Pole and finally, after 22 months at sea, back to Brazil.
Presents information on the location, climate, people, animal life, and environmental aspects of polar lands. Includes a multimedia disk containing activities, puzzles, and games.
Polar Lands
In this book, full of facts, illustrations, cartoons and images, we visit the lands and animals and people of the coldest parts of Earth.