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41) Blood island
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
You are the key biologist aboard a research vessel named Albatross III, headed into the Pacific from San Francisco. Midway through your 5-day voyage, the crew reveals their anxiety about your destination: Blood Island. It is a legendary place, difficult to reach and with a propensity for conflict, murder, and insanity logged during the rare visits to its shores. As if that wasn't enough, Blood Island is also home to a life-threatening volcano with...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Volcanologist and filmmaker Clive Oppenheimer offers here a seemingly impossible tour, showing readers places difficult to access, even before one considers climbing a volcano. Oppenheimer worked closely with North Korean researchers in a scientific mission to study Mount Paektu, a volcano name sung in national anthems on both sides of the Demilitarized Zone. He ventured through Chad to the Tibesti Mountains; their most emblematic volcano, Emi Koussi,...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Part high-seas adventure, part examination of the Age of Exploration, this account of Captain James Cook's last voyage in 1776 charts how his overt and covert missions came to a head on the island of Hawaii and left behind a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day.
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Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
It was to be the greatest and most elaborate Arctic expedition in history, with the largest scientific staff ever taken on such a journey. Its leader, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, was celebrated for his studies of Eskimo life and, with this mission, hoped to find the evidence that proved his staunchly held belief that there was a last unexplored continent, hidden beneath the vast polar ice cap. In June 1913, the HMCS Karluk set sail from the Esquimalt Naval...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence. Between these two events old authorities collapsed, Luther's Reformation divided churches, and various discoveries revealed the ignorance of the ancient Greeks and Romans. A new, empirical worldview had arrived, focusing now on observation, experiment, and mathematical reasoning. This book takes us along on the great voyage of discovery that ushered...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton led an expedition across Antarctica in 1914. Did you know that science played a big role in this dangerous journey? Learn how weather patterns affected the explorer in Antarctica. Find out the science behind Shackleton's ship, The Endurance . And discover how modern technology is being used to find out even more about this adventure more than 100 years later"--
49) The fly trap
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The Fly Trap is a meditation on the unexpected beauty of small things and an exploration of the history of entomology itself. What drives the obsessive curiosity of collectors to catalog their finds? What is the importance of the hoverfly? As confounded by his unusual vocation as anyone, Sj����berg reflects on a range of ideas--the passage of time, art, lost loves--drawing on sources as disparate as D. H. Lawrence and the fascinating and nearly...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Description
"This entertaining collection of essays from professional scientists and naturalists provides an enlightening look at the lives of field biologists with a passion for the hidden world of nocturnal wildlife. Into the Night explores the harrowing, fascinating, amusing, and largely unheard personal experiences of scientists willing to forsake the safety of daylight to document the natural history of these uniquely adapted animals. Contributors tell of...
Author
Series
Memoirs of Lady Trent volume 2
Pub. Date
c2014.
Description
Three years after her fateful journeys through the forbidding mountains of Vystrana in which she lost her husband, Lady Isabella Trent defies family and convention to embark on an expedition to the savage, war-torn continent of Eriga, home of such exotic draconian species as the grass-dwelling snakes of the savannah, arboreal tree snakes and, most elusive of all, the legendary swamp-wyrms of the tropics. The expedition is not an easy one. Accompanied...
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Series
Sigma Force volume 1
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 24
Description
An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum - a devastating blast that sets off alarms in clandestine organizations around the world, as the race begins to determine how it happened, why it happened, and what it means.
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Series
Secret explorers volume 7
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Meet the Secret Explorers - a band of brainiac kids from all around the world. Everyone in this group of young experts has a speciality, from outer space to dinosaurs, and each story follows a character who gets chosen for a "secret exploration". In this fun, fact-filled children's book, engineering expert Kiki and Connor the marine biologist are sent on a mission to the Arctic. There they discover a research vessel studying the effects of climate...
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Pub. Date
2000.
Description
Account of British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's epic adventure to the South Atlantic and the first crossing of the Antarctic continent. Half a continent away from its intended base, the ship Endurance was crushed in the ice. For five months, Shackleton and his men were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world.