Polar World

Are you ready to set sail and explore the world like never before? Look no further than "Cruising the World", the ultimate guide to ocean cruising! In this thrilling eBook, you'll discover the joys of cruising on the open sea, from the sights and sounds of new ports of call to the wonders of marine life. You'll indulge in the delights of seafaring cuisine, and experience the thrills of oceanic adventure with activities like swimming, snorkeling, and scuba diving. But it's not just about the activities - cruising is also a romantic affair. You'll explore the potential for finding love and ...

Barely inhabited, the Arctic is an alien world to most of us. It also holds critical clues about the future of our planet. In The Hidden Life of Ice, Marco Tedesco invites us to Greenland, where he and his fellow scientists are doggedly researching the dramatic changes afoot. Following the arc of his typical day at work, Tedesco unearths the secrets in the ice - from evidence of long-extinct "polar camels" to the fantastically weird microorganisms. Tedesco weaves together the bald facts on climate change with poetic reflections on this endangered landscape and more.

Mountainland, the richest, proudest, and freest nation in the world, has resorted to forming a militia and creating incarceration camps to stem the influx of migrants… Fjordland, the most civilised, equal, and just nation in the world, is falling apart, unable to accommodate its newfound diversity… Meanwhile, life is getting worse on the Savannah and in the Jungle, with autocratic high-tech city-states and abundant cheap labour to exploit. Somewhere, amidst it all, only the rootless global technology organisations seem to prosper. Eskild, the sympathetic Brotherhood bear, expelled and ...

This is a brilliant dual biography charting British Robert Scott's and Norwegian Roald Amundsen's race to the South Pole during 1911-12. Huntuford's is the accepted, definitive account of the race and a reassessment of the two men. Thoroughly researched, revealing the adventures and misfortunes that befell them both, he describes the driving ambitions of the era, and the complex, often deeply flawed individuals who were charged with carrying them out.

Author Sylvia Meier brings to light her illness in "My Bipolar World" "My Bipolar World" is a compilation of Meier's recent books "Living Bipolar: Learning To Live With Bipolar Disorder," "Bipolar Bits: Manic Madness To Depressive Depths" and "Lotta Bipolar Bits: Survivors Diary Of Living Bipolar" which all discuss living with the disorder, and overcoming it. Discover within it's pages how to live with the disorder and the very real ups and downs associated with it. "My Bipolar World" is bipolar disorder like you've never seen it!

How do animals survive in planet Earth's most extreme regions? Snow, ice, and subzero temps make the North and South Poles nearly impossible places to live. But several animals from musk oxen to penguins call these regions home. Find out how their amazing behaviors and body parts have adapted to these harsh conditions.

It is the dreamland of most children in Europe and the Americas, and the mysterious home of the mythical Santa Claus, his devoted wife Mrs. Claus, the reindeer and the many elves who make Christmas toys each year. In many ways, the North Pole is the first geographical location many kids learn - if only because children over the age of three can manage to tell any interested adult that Santa Claus lives there.

When Johnson went to work for the US Antarctic Program (devoted to scientific research and education in support of the national interest in the Antarctic), he figured he'd find adventure, beauty, penguins, and lofty-minded scientists. Instead he found boredom, alcohol, and bureaucracy. As a dishwasher and garbage man at McMurdo Station, Johnson quickly shed his illusions about Antarctica.

What would the United States look like—what would it represent—if leadership suddenly put country before party, possibility before dogma, and created a vision of a better future and then executed against that vision? In this thought-provoking book, a new president takes the country to task—and reinvents government, healthcare, job creation, foreign relations, transportation infrastructure, and education, and with the help of her unlikely cabinet, shows the nation—and the world—what could be, rather than what is.

Six days after giving birth, a polar bear named Aurora got up and walked away from her den at the Columbus Zoo, leaving her tiny squealing cub to fend for herself. Hours later, Aurora still hadn’t returned. The cub was furless and blind, and with her temperature dropping dangerously, the zookeepers entrusted with her care felt they had no choice: They would have to raise one of the most dangerous predators in the world by hand. Over the next few weeks, a group of veterinarians and zookeepers worked around the clock to save the cub, whom they called Nora.

In Leading on the Edge, successful business speaker and consultant Rachael Robertson shares the lessons she learned as leader of a year-long expedition to the wilds of Antarctica.

The North Pole, originally published in 1910, makes available Robert E. Peary's own account of his expedition in the Arctic. It provides hotly contested evidence that remains an indispensable key in deciding who deserved the coveted title "Discoverer of the North Pole". It is also a gripping adventure story that is impossible to put down.

Here is the story of the infamous 1910 race to the South Pole, as told by its fearless yet desperate leader, Robert Falcon Scott. The New York Times called Scott's Last Expedition "A splendid record of heroism not soon to be forgotten."

Into the Frozen South, by Scout Marr, of the Quest. Originally published, September 1923, now in the public domain.

Fluffy emperor penguin chicks. Playful Arctic fox kits. Learn how polar babies survive frigid temperatures and how many of them change color to blend in with their snowy environments.

It is early spring and Polar Bear and her two cubs are growing hungry after spending the cold winter months in their den. Will Polar Bear be able to find and protect her hungry cubs? Find out as this exciting story unfolds! Reviewed by the Smithsonian Institution for accuracy, Polar Bear Horizon

Emotions run high in this true polar adventure. It's a story of triumph, harrowing danger, and outright adventure. In 2012, Aaron Linsdau left his entire life behind. He told his family and girlfriend that he wanted to pursue a dream to do something no other American had ever accomplished. He wanted to be the first to ski from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back without aid or support. Linsdau takes the listener to Antarctica.

Im März 1946 stellte sich der ehemalige deutsche Außenminister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, vor dem Internationalen Militärgerichtshof in Nürnberg den Fragen seines Verteidigers Dr. Martin Horn. Seine Ausführungen wurden mit Spannung erwartet, weil er aus eigenem Erleben über die weitgehend unbekannten und vor der Öffentlichkeit geheim gehaltenen diplomatischen Bemühungen der deutschen Seite im Vorfeld des Zweiten Weltkriegs berichten konnte.

"Was hat die Generation meines Vaters dazu bewegt, nur 20 Jahre nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg Adolf Hitler in einen neuen Krieg zu folgen?" Die Suche des Autors nach einer Antwort führt zu überraschenden Ergebnissen. Zusammenhänge werden deutlich, die bislang schlichtweg übergangen wurden. "Dieser Krieg", so Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof, "hatte viele Väter." Vieles in unserer deutschen Geschichte zwischen 1919 und 1939 ist ohne Kenntnis des zeitgleichen Geschehens in anderen Ländern nicht zu verstehen, zu eng greifen oft Wirkung und Wechselwirkung ineinander.

Interrompu un matin dans l'écriture de son prochain roman, Manuel Ortigosa, auteur à succès, trouve deux policiers à sa porte. Cela aurait pu n'être qu'un banal et triste accident - une voiture qui, au petit jour, quitte la route de façon inexpliquée. Mais le mort, Álvaro Muñiz de Dávila, est le mari de Manuel, et le chef d'une prestigieuse dynastie patricienne de Galice. Dans ce bout du monde aussi sublime qu'archaïque commence alors pour Manuel un chemin de croix, au fil duquel il découvre qu'Álvaro n'était pas celui qu'il croyait.