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Doom in the Deep: An Extraordinary Storm, a Miraculous Survival
It is one of the great tales of man against the elements. In February 1968, in a howling gale from the North Pole, fishermen fought desperately for their lives, hacking at the deadly ice that caked their vessels. Visibility was almost nil and communications only intermittent. When a wave swamped the hull of the trawler Ross Cleveland, she went down in minutes. It was reported...
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The Far-Farers: A Journey from Viking Iceland to Crusader Jerusalem
Just before the year 1000, a young Viking named Thorvald turned his back on the pagan gods of his fathers to preach the Christian gospel. But his Icelandic countrymen mocked and outlawed him. Abandoning his homeland, Thorvald embarked on an epic journey to the heart of all medieval world maps-Jerusalem. A thousand years later, Victoria Clark embarked on the same...
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Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic
O'Hanlon's book provides an account of danger, camaraderie, Greenland halibut, exotic seabirds, enormous fry-ups and a slightly mad - and very scared - English scientist set down among half-a-dozen tough Scotsmen....
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Skaftafell in Iceland - A Thousand Years of Change
The book is subdivided into three parts supplemented by eleven appendices. The first part attempts to explain Ragnars own sense of time and place and his relationship with his local and wider region. To do this, it is necessary to go back to Ingólfur Arnasons first landfall in AD 874 under the headland...
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A Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North
Large print edition of an informative travelogue of a truly adventurous and observative woman.
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