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This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
In a tribute to the far latitudes, Gretel Ehrlich travels across Greenland, the largest island on earth. All but five per cent of the island is covered by a vast ice sheet, an enduring remnant of the last ice age. Despite a uniquely hostile environment, it has been inhabited continuously for thousands of years. Greenlanders retain many of their traditional practices: some still hunt...
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Surtsey: The New Island in the North Atlantic
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Author: Sigrdur Thorarinsson
Creator: Solvi Eysteinsson
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Publisher: The Viking Press
Category: Book
Publication Date: 1965
Number Of Pages: 54
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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...
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The Iceland Experience : Around in 80 vol.1
Shot mostly on location in Reykjavik, Iceland, The Iceland Experience features up and coming artists that have taken the unique landscape of their native land, and transformed it into cutting edge music. Ampop, The Funerals, Apparat Organ Quartet, and Singapore Sling follow in the footsteps of Bjork and Sigur Ros, by...
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Travels in the island of Iceland
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. II. JOURNAL OF SECOND EXCURSION. THE object of our second journey in Iceland, was to explore the peninsula on the western side of the island, which is terminated by the remarkable...
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