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Where is Antarctica?
\"Antarctica, the earth's southernmost continent, was virtually untouched by humans until the 19th century. This [book] introduces readers to the world's coldest, driest, and windiest continent\"--Provided by publisher.
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Roald Amundsen et la course au pôle Sud
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Roald Amundsen et la course au pôle Sud en moins d'une heure!
La fin du XIXe siècle marque le commencement de la conquête des pôles. Faisant naître une véritable compétition internationale, la course aux pôles servira de cadre aux exploits de Roald Amundsen. Passionné par le monde polaire, ce marin norvégien est le premier homme à avoir atteint le pôle Sud et franchit les deux passages entre l'Atlantique et le Pacifique nord. En révolutionnant les connaissances scientifiques mondiales sur les régions arctiques grâce à ses performances, il devient l'un des plus grands conquérants du froid. Ce livre vous permettra d'en savoir plus sur:
• La vie de l'explorateur
• Le contexte politique et social de l'époque
• Ses expéditions (cartes à l'appui)
• Les répercussions de ses expéditions Le mot de l'éditeur:
« Dans ce numéro de la collection « 50MINUTES | Grandes Découvertes », Mélanie Mettra nous fait découvrir en une vingtaine de pages une des personnalités les plus emblématiques de la conquête des pôles: Roald Amundsen. Devancé par deux explorateurs dans la course au pôle Nord, celui-ci n'hésite pas à changer ses plans en dernière minute pour se lancer à l'assaut du pôle Sud, surprenant tout le monde. Mais son exploit est entaché par de nombreuses controverses et par la mort de l'un de ses concurrents. »
Stéphanie Dagrain À PROPOS DE LA SÉRIE 50MINUTES | Grandes Découvertes
La série « Grandes Découvertes » de la collection « 50MINUTES » aborde plus de cinquante explorations territoriales qui ont bouleversé notre connaissance du monde. Chaque livre a été pensé pour les lecteurs curieux qui veulent faire le tour d'un sujet précis en allant à l'essentiel, et ce en moins d'une heure. Nos auteurs mêlent les faits historiques et les analyses aux nouvelles recherches pour rendre accessibles des siècles d'histoire.
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Black whiteness : Admiral Byrd alone in the Antarctic
An account of Admiral Richard Byrd's stay alone in a small shack during an Antarctic winter.
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Frozen in Time
No other continent on Earth has undergone such radical environmental changes as Antarctica. In its transition from rich biodiversity to the barren, cold land of blizzards we see today, Antarctica provides a dramatic case study of how subtle changes in continental positioning can affect living communities, and how rapidly catastrophic changes can come about. Antarctica has gone from paradise to polar ice in just a few million years, a geological blink of an eye when we consider the real age of Earth. Frozen in Time presents a comprehensive overview of the fossil record of Antarctica framed within its changing environmental settings, providing a window into a past time and environment on the continent. It reconstructs Antarctica's evolving animal and plant communities as accurately as the fossil record permits. The story of how fossils were first discovered in Antarctica is a triumph of human endeavour. It continues today with modern expeditions going out to remote sites every year to fill in more of the missing parts of the continent's great jigsaw of life.
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Ernest Shackleton
A picture-book biography of Ernest Shackleton, who, when he \"was young ... longed for a life of adventure. After a career in the Merchant Navy, he joined a landmark expedition to try to reach the South Pole for the first time in history. Although he had to go home early, he never gave up. His own expeditions set new records for the closest anyone had ever been to the South Pole, and he is remembered now as a courageous and inspirational leader\"--Publisher marketing
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Surviving Antarctica : Ernest Shackleton
\"Explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew hoped to be first to cross Antarctica from sea to sea, until their ship became trapped in the ice and began to sink. Survivors endured more than five-hundred days in extreme conditions before being rescued.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Who was Ernest Shackleton?
\"As a boy he preferred reading sea stories to doing homework and, at age 16, became an apprentice seaman. Subsequently, Ernest Shackleton's incredible journeys to the South Pole in the early 1900s made him one of the most famous explorers of modern times. His courage in the face of dangerous conditions and unforeseeable tragedies reveal the great leader that he was. His historic 1914 journey aboard the Endurance has all the drama of an action movie\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Endurance expedition
Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, the Endurance was crushed, creating the need to travel across the ocean to safety.
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