كتاب
At the mercy of the winds
| العنوان: | At the mercy of the winds |
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| المؤلفون: | Hempleman-Adams, David, 1956- |
| المساهمون: | Uhlig, Robert. |
| بيانات النشر: | London : Bantam, 2001. |
| سنة النشر: | 2001 |
| وصف مادي: | xiii, 315 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Ballooning. |
| Subject Person: | Hempleman-Adams, David, 1956-, Strindberg, Nils, 1872-1897., Andrée, Salomon August, 1854-1897., Fraenkel, Knut (Knut Hjalmar Ferdinand), 1870-1897. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | North Pole -- Description and travel., North Pole -- Aerial exploration., Arctic regions -- Aerial exploration. |
| الوصف: | AT THE MERCY OF THE WINDS tells the extraordinary stories of both journeys. Featuring up-to-the-minute drama from David's own expediton and original photographs and documents from the Swedish voyage, it is the ultimate adventure book as, alone in the skies above a frozen and harshly beautiful landscape, David battled against the elements to fulfil the drama of three Swedith explorers a century earlier, and become the first man to balloon to the North Pole. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Acknowledgements -- Introduction by Ian McEwan -- Prologue -- Discovery: White island, Norwegian Arctic, 5 August, 1930 -- Spark: Canadian High Arctic, 1 April, 1998 -- Plan: London, England, 29 Jully, 1895 -- Groundwork: Spitsbergen, Norway, 25 January, 2000 -- Rivalry: Virgohamna, Norwegian High Arctic, 14 August, 1896 -- Engagement: Stockholm, Sweden, October 1896 -- Countdown: Spitsbergen, Norway, May 2000 -- Departure: Virgohamna, Norwegian High Arctic, 21 June, 1897 -- Voyage: Arctic Ocean, 11 July, 1897 -- Flight: Arctic Ocean, 29 May, 2000 -- Trek: Arctic Ocean, 14 July, 1897 -- Downfall: Arctic Ocean, 4 August, 1897 -- Pole: Arctic Ocean, 31 May, 2000 -- Agony: White Island, Norwegian Arctic, 2 October, 1897 -- Homecoming: Arctic Ocean, 1 June, 2000 -- Author's note -- Appendix 1: Cause of death -- Appendix 2: Equipment -- Index. |
| Original Identifier: | ocm47985275 ocm48102972 G680 .H46 2001 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-593-04747-7 0-593-04747-8 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Map on lining papers. Includes index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.008751032.4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780593047477 0593047478 |
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