Sentences with phrase «polar exploration»

It's an exhilarating account of one of the greatest episodes in the history of polar exploration and one of history's all - time great survival stories.

In «An Expedition to the Pole,» Dillard sets polar exploration next to the worship of a small Catholic parish to see what this juxtaposition might produce.

I first discovered Andrea Barrett through her haunting novel of 19th century polar exploration, The Voyage of the Narwhal.

MS Midnatsol is designed especially to bring polar exploration to all ages and learning levels.

The ship will carry 16 zodiacs in addition to 12 kayaks which have been installed to allow guests to experience kayak polar exploration.

These lines extend in other images of fields scored by ploughs and scenes of polar explorations of the early 1900s, including Edward Adrian Wilson's delicate, ghostly drawings of icebergs.

Life - size, full - color figures of often gruesome criminals are displayed in the cells which once housed them, right alongside histories of polar exploration and dry - as - dust railroad and postal exhibits.

«But modern exploration on Earth — polar exploration, Antarctic, climbing, even climbing Mount Everest — people do it in a very light fashion using technology, they're very creative and they take more risks in some cases.

Britain has a great history of polar exploration and science — a history of Scott and Shackleton, and many other explorers, who all had a close link to this city, home of the British Antarctic Survey and the Scott Polar Institute.

Technically this game has missed the last 15 years, but if you like science and polar exploration or more complex puzzles, you might like this game.

New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white - knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded Age.

The latest from the New York Herald Tribune states that the polar exploration ship Hansa is reported by a whaler as being crushed in sunk in the pack ice in its attempt to reach the North Pole; sunk at seventy degrees north latitude off Greenland.

Housing the world's most famous polar ship, The Fram Museum details the history of polar exploration, and the Viking Ship Museum allows you to get up close to two wonderfully preserved wooden Viking ships that date back to the 9th century.

Other references are more obscure: Rasputin's fingernails are presented in a vitrine in a chamber built like a tree house (you have to climb a ladder to get to it), and it is pretty difficult to concentrate on the vitrine of objects related to polar exploration, which are on loan from the Royal Geographic Society, because there's a DVD of The Cure's Greatest Hits blaring over it.

Before airplanes and satellite phones, polar exploration was a more dangerous undertaking than it is now.

But wait, others said, a polar exploration ship from the 19th...

But wait, others said, a polar exploration ship from the 19th century was truly the beginning of passive house.

As well as poring over records and surveys from polar explorations - which go back to Victorian times - the team collected specimens from the seas around the islands.