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Antarctica (Earth's Continents)
by Mary LindeenEARTH'S CONTINENTS lets you begin exploring Earth's seven continents. Learn about each continent's land, people, animals, and cultures just by turning the pages! Read all the books in the EARTH'S CONTINENTS series: Africa; Antarctica; Asia; Australia; Europe; North America; South America. Picture captions and descriptions present.
Antarctica: Escape from Disaster (Antarctica Ser. #Vol. 2)
by Peter LerangisTrapped in Antarctic ice, Jack Winslow and his sons fight to get homeIt has been nearly a year since Jack Winslow and his two sons, Colin and Andrew, set out to conquer Antarctica. While Colin and most of the crew stayed behind on the ship, Andrew made a dash for the South Pole, nearly dying in the process. When he returns to the Mystery, frostbitten and frail, the ship has become wedged between two ice floes. As the crew hacks at the ice with pick-axes, trying desperately to free the ship, the ice shifts, shattering the hull and giving the Winslows and their team just enough time to gather provisions before the Mystery plummets into the frigid water. Hundreds of miles of ice and sea stand between the Winslows and safety. As food becomes scarce, the crew begins grumbling of mutiny. Colin and Andrew are tired, hungry, and freezing cold—but their struggle for survival has only just begun. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Peter Lerangis including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s personal collection.
Antarctica in British Children’s Literature (Children's Literature and Culture)
by Sinead MoriartyFor over a century British authors have been writing about the Antarctic for child readers, yet this body of literature has never been explored in detail. Antarctica in British Children’s Literature examines this field for the first time, identifying the dominant genres and recurrent themes and tropes while interrogating how this landscape has been constructed as a wilderness within British literature for children. The text is divided into two sections. Part I focuses on the stories of early-twentieth-century explorers such as Robert F. Scott and Ernest Shackleton. Antarctica in British Children’s Literature highlights the impact of children’s literature on the expedition writings of Robert Scott, including the influence of Scott’s close friend, author J.M. Barrie. The text also reveals the important role of children’s literature in the contemporary resurgence of interest in Scott’s long-term rival Ernest Shackleton. Part II focuses on fictional narratives set in the Antarctic, including early-twentieth-century whaling literature, adventure and fantasy texts, contemporary animal stories and environmental texts for children. Together these two sections provide an insight into how depictions of this unique continent have changed over the past century, reflecting transformations in attitudes towards wilderness and wild landscapes.
Antarctica in Fiction: Imaginative Narratives of the Far South
by Elizabeth LeaneThis comprehensive analysis of literary responses to Antarctica examines the rich body of literature that the continent has provoked over the last three centuries, focussing particularly on narrative fiction. Novelists as diverse as Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula Le Guin, Beryl Bainbridge and Kim Stanley Robinson have all been drawn artistically to the far south. The continent has also inspired genre fiction, including a Mills and Boon novel, a Phantom comic and a Biggles book, as well as countless lost-race romances, espionage thrillers and horror-fantasies. Antarctica in Fiction draws on these sources, as well as film, travel narratives and explorers' own creative writing. It maps the far south as a space of the imagination and argues that only by engaging with this space, in addition to the physical continent, can we understand current attitudes towards Antarctica.
The Antarctica of Love
by Sara StridsbergThey say you die three times. The first time for me was when my heart stopped beating beneath his hands by the lake.The second was when what was left of me was lowered into the ground in front of Ivan and Raksha at Bromma Church. The third will be the last time my name is spoken on earth."A haunting portrait of the starkest meanings of love and family. Stridsberg's literary talent left me awestruck" Kate Reed Petty, author of True Story"A disturbingly beautiful book" ExpressenInni lives her life on the margins, but it is a life that is full and complex, filled with different shades of dark and light... Until she is brutally murdered one summer's day, on a lake shore at the heart of a distant, rain-washed forest.On the surface, this is the story of the moment her life is violently extinguished - a moment that will never end, not ever - but it is also about the time before, and about the lives that carry on afterwards. It's about her children, her parents, her childhood of neglect, her volatile adolescence, and the chain of choices, tragedies and accidents that lead her to a life on the streets and take her into the wrong crowd, the wrong places and, finally, the wrong car with the wrong person.Sara Stridsberg's new novel is about absolute vulnerability, brutality and isolation. At times disturbing, this is a devastating story of unexpected love, tenderness and light in the total darkness.Translated from Swedish by Deborah Bragan-Turner
Antarctica's Lost Aviator: The Epic Adventure To Explore The Last Frontier On Earth
by Jeff MaynardThe astonishing voyage of the first solo crossing of Antarctica by the unlikeliest of arctic explorers. By the 1930s, no one had yet crossed Antarctica, and its vast interior remained a mystery frozen in time. Hoping to write his name in the history books, wealthy American Lincoln Ellsworth announced he would fly across the unexplored continent. And to honor his hero, Wyatt Earp, he would carry his gun belt on the flight. The main obstacles to Ellsworth’s ambition were numerous: he didn’t like the cold, he avoided physical work, and he couldn’t navigate. Consequently, he hired the experienced Australian explorer, Sir Hubert Wilkins, to organize the expedition on his behalf. While Ellsworth battled depression and struggled to conceal his homosexuality, Wilkins purchased a ship, hired a crew, and ordered a revolutionary new airplane constructed. The Ellsworth Trans-Antarctic Expeditions became epics of misadventure, as competitors plotted to beat Ellsworth, pilots refused to fly, crews mutinied, and the ship was repeatedly trapped in the ice. Finally, in 1935, Ellsworth took off to fly from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea. A few hours after leaving, radio contact with him was lost and the world gave him up for dead. Antarctica’s Lost Aviator brings alive one of the strangest episodes in polar history, using previously unpublished diaries, correspondence, photographs, and film to reveal the amazing true story of the first crossing of Antarctica and how, against all odds, it was achieved by the unlikeliest of heroes.
Antares Dawn: 2019 Edition (Antares Trilogy #1)
by Michael McCollumWhen the supergiant star Antares exploded in 2512, the human colony on Alta found their pathway to the stars gone, isolating them from the rest of human space for more than a century.When a powerful warship materializes in the system without warning, the commanders of the Altan Space Navy are alarmed. They dispatch one of Alta’s most powerful ships to investigate, only to discover the unknown behemoth is battered and helmed by a dead crew.This is disturbing news for the Altans as the defeated battleship would have easily defeated the whole of the Altan navy on it’s own. And if that ship was able to stumble into the Altan system, so too could the force responsible for its destruction. Something must be done.
Antares Dawn
by Michael MccollumAfter the star Antares exploded,destroying the foldpoints that permitted travel to the stars, the Altan System was cut off from Human Space for more than a century. Then, in 2637 a huge spacegoing battleship ' flashed into the system. When the Altan Space Navy finally caught up with the behemoth, it found only a battered hulk and a few dead Earthmen. Something had clearly beaten the awesome Terran spacecraft in a battle to the death. And that was disturbing news indeed. For the dead battleship could easily have defeated the entire Altan system by itself. If it could blunder into the system, so could whatever had demolished it. / Something would have to be done...
The Antares Maelstrom (Star Trek: The Original Series)
by Greg CoxAn epic new Star Trek saga by New York Times bestselling author Greg Cox set during the original Five-Year Mission!The final frontier erupts into chaos as vast quantities of a rare energy source are discovered beneath the surface of Baldur-3, a remote planet beyond the outer fringes of Federation space. Now an old-fashioned &“gold rush&” is underway as a flood of would-be prospectors, from countless worlds and species, races toward the planet to stake their claim. The galactic stampede threatens the stability of neighboring planets and space stations, as widespread strife and sabotage and all-around pandemonium result in a desperate need for Starfleet assistance. Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise are dispatched to deal with the escalating crisis…which lies on the other side of a famously perilous region of space known as the Antares Maelstrom.
Antares Passage: 2019 Edition (Antares Trilogy #2)
by Michael McCollumAfter more than a century of isolation, the paths between stars are again open and the people of Alta in contact with their sister colony on Sandar. And yet, the opening of the foldlines has not been the pure blessing the Altans had supposed.The reestablishment of interstellar travel has brought with it news of the encroaching Ryall, an alien race whose goal is the extermination of humanity. If they are to avoid defeat at the hands of the alien forces, Alta must seek out the military might of Earth. The only suitable path, however, requires a journey into the heart of a supernova...
Antares Passage
by Michael MccollumFROM THE BACK COVER: Project Helldiver. After more than a century of isolation, the people of Alta were once again in contact with the rest of human space. But that reunion, led by Captain Richard Drake, spelled the end of civilization on Alta. For the people of the nearest star system were under siege by an alien race called the Ryall, whose only goal in life seemed to be the utter destruction of all Mankind. And it liked as if they might succeed. The only hope for these worlds lay with the greater military forces of Earth itself. But to reach Earth, they would have to take the one path not held by the Ryall, and that way passed through the Antares system, which was awash with the deadly radiation of a supernova. It was a risk they would have to take, and Richard Drake would lead the way into hell. This is the second in the Antares trilogy.
Antares Victory: 2019 Edition (Antares Trilogy #3)
by Michael McCollumAfter a century of warfare, humanity finally discovered the Achilles heel of the Ryall, their xenophobic reptilian foe. Spica – Alpha Virginis – is the key star system in enemy space. It is the hub through which all Ryall starships must pass, and if Alta and their allies can just capture and hold it, they will strangle the Ryall war machine and end its threat to humankind forever.It all seemed so simple in the computer simulations: Advance by stealth, attack without warning, strike swiftly with overwhelming power. Unfortunately, the logistics prove to be the easy part. With the key to victory in hand, Richard and Bethany Drake must temper the volatile role of human nature if they are to bring down the alien foe…
Antares Victory
by Michael MccollumFROM THE BACK COVER: After a century of warfare, humanity has finally discovered the Achilles heel of the Ryall, their xenophobic reptilian foe. Spica Alpha Virginis, is the key star system in enemy space. It is the hub through which all enemy starships must pass, and if humanity can only capture and hold it, they will strangle the war machine of their foes and forever end the Ryall threat. It all seemed so simple in the computer simulations: Advance by stealth, attack without warning, strike swiftly with overwhelming power. Unfortunately, conquering Spica proves the easy part. With the key to victory in hand, Richard and Bethany Drake discover that they must also conquer human nature if they are to bring down the alien foe.
Antbirds and Ovenbirds
by Alexander F. Skutch Dana GardnerAntbirds and ovenbirds, two of the five largest families of birds found only in the Western Hemisphere, have been among Alexander Skutch's favorites for more than six decades. In this book, he draws on years of observations to describe the life cycle of these fascinating birds, which inhabit Latin America from tropical Mexico to Tierra del Fuego. Skutch covers all aspects of the birds' lives, including the various species in each family, food and foraging, daily life, voice, displays and courtship, nests and incubation, and parental care. He also recounts anecdotes from his own experiences, creating vivid pictures of antbirds foraging for the insects Skutch stirs up on walks through the rainforest and of ovenbirds repairing the observation holes that he opens in their elaborate nests. As some of tropical America's least studied birds, antbirds and ovenbirds surely merit the extensive treatment given them here by one of our most distinguished senior ornithologists. Over fifty line drawings by noted bird artist Dana Gardner make this book a delight for both armchair and field naturalists.
Ante-nicene Fathers: Volume 9. The Gospel of Peter, The Diatessaron of Tatian, The Apocalypse of Peter, The Vision of Paul, The Apocalypses of The Virgin and Sedrach and More (Ante-nicene Fathers Ser.)
by Philip SchaffVolume 9: The Gospel of Peter, The Diatessaron of Tatian, The Apocalypse of Peter, The Vision of Paul, The Apocalypse of the Virgin, The Apocalypse of Sedrach, The Testament of Abraham, The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, The Narrative of Zosimus, The Epistles of Clement, The Apology of Aristides the Philosopher, The Passion of the Scillitan Martyrs, Epistle to Gregory and Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of John, Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew
Ante-nicene Fathers: Volume 8. The Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts And Epistles, The Clementina, Apocrypha, Decretals, Memoirs Of Edessa And Syriac Documents, Remains Of The First Ages (Ante-nicene Fathers Ser. #8)
by Philip Schaff Arthur CoxeVolume 8: The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs Excerpts of Theodotus Two Epistles Concerning Virginity Pseudo-Clementine Literature Apocrypha of the New Testament The Decretals Memoirs of Edessa And Other Ancient Syriac Documents Remains of the Second and Third Centuries
Ante-nicene Fathers: Volume IV: Fathers Of The Third Century: Tertullian, Part Fourth, Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen, Parts First And Second (Ante-nicene Fathers Ser. #4)
by Philip Schaff Arthur CoxeVolume IV. Fathers of the Third Century: Tertullian, Part Fourth, Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen, Parts First and Second
Ante-nicene Fathers: Volume 7. Fathers Of The Third And Fourth Centuries: Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching And Constitutions, Homily (Ante-nicene Fathers Ser.)
by Philip Schaff Arthur CoxeThe genius of Lactantius suffers a sad transformation when unclothed of vernacular and stripped of the idiomatic graces of his style. But the intelligent reader will be sure to compare this translation with the Latinity of the original, and to recur to it often for the enjoyment of its charming rhetoric, and of the high sentiment it so nobly enforces and adorns. This volume will be the favourite of the series with many. The writings of the Christian Tully alone make up more than half of its contents; and it is supremely refreshing to reach, at last, an author who chronicles the triumph of the Gospel [1] over "Herod and Pontius Pilate;" over the heathen in their "rage," and the people in their "vain imaginings;" over "the kings of the earth who stood up, and the rulers who were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ."
Ante-nicene Fathers: Volume 6. Fathers Of The Third Century: Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius The Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius And Minor Writers, Methodius, Arnobius (Ante-nicene Fathers Ser.)
by Philip Schaff Arthur CoxeIn this volume a mass of fragmentary material [1] has been reduced to method, and so harmonized as to present an integral result. The student has before him, therefore, (1) a view of the Christian Church emerging from the ten persecutions; (2) a survey of its condition on the eve of that great event, the (nominal) conversion of the empire; (3) an introduction to the era of Athanasius; and (4) a history of events that led to the calling of the first Catholic council at Nicæa.
Ante-nicene Fathers: Volume 5. Fathers Of The Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian (Ante-nicene Fathers Ser.)
by Philip Schaff Arthur CoxeThis fifth volume will be found a work complete in itself, simplex et Unum. At first, indeed, it might look otherwise. The formation of Latin Christianity in the school of North Africa seems interrupted by the interpolation, between Tertullian and his great pupil Cyprian, of a Western bishop and doctor, who writes in Greek. A little reflection, however, will suggest to the thoughtful student, that, even if our chronological plan admitted of it, we should divest the works of Cyprian of a very great advantage should we deprive them of the new and all-important light shed upon Cyprian and his conflicts with Stephen by the discovery of the Philosophumena of Hippolytus.
Ante-nicene Fathers: Volume III. Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian (Ante-nicene Fathers Ser. #3)
by Philip Schaff Alexander Roberts James Donaldson Arthur CoxeVolume III. Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian
Ante-nicene Fathers: Volume I. Apostolic Fathers With Justin Martyr And Irenaeus (Ante-nicene Fathers Ser.)
by Philip Schaff Alexander Roberts James Donaldson Arthur CoxeThis volume, containing the equivalent of three volumes of the Edinburgh series of the Ante-Nicene Fathers, will be found a library somewhat complete in itself. The Apostolic Fathers and those associated with them in the third generation, are here placed together in a handbook, which, with the inestimable Scriptures, supplies a succinct autobiography of the Spouse of Christ for the first two centuries. No Christian scholar has ever before possessed, in faithful versions of such compact form, a supplement so essential to the right understanding of the New Testament itself. It is a volume indispensable to all scholars, and to every library, private or public, in this country.
Ante-nicene Fathers: Volume II. Fathers Of The Second Century: Tatian, Theophilus Of Antioch, Athenagoras Of Athens, Clement Of Alexandria (Ante-nicene Fathers Ser.)
by Philip Schaff Alexander Roberts James Donaldson Arthur CoxeThe series was originally published between 1867 and 1873 by the Presbyterian publishing house T. & T. Clark in Edinburgh under the title Ante-Nicene Christian Library (ANCL), as a response to the Oxford movement's Library of the Fathers which was perceived as too Roman Catholic. The volumes were edited by Rev. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. This series was available by subscription, but the editors were unable to interest enough subscribers to commission a translation of the homilies of Origen.
The Ante-Room (Virago Modern Classics #295)
by Kate O'BrienIreland, 1880 and a prosperous, provincial family observes the three great autumnal feasts of the Church. As Teresa Mulqueen lies dying, her family gather round her and beneath this drama another, no less poignant, unfolds. Unmarried daughter Agnes awaits the return of her sister Marie-Rose and brother-in-law Vincent. She adores her sister, but secretly, pasionately, loves Vincent. And their marriage, she knows, is unhappy...Ahead lies a terrible battle between her uncompromising faith and the intensity of her love. In this delicately imagined novel, originally published in 1934, Kate O'Brien lays bare the struggles between personal need and the Catholic faith with the sympathy and insight which is the hallmark of her craft.
The Ante-Room
by Kate O'BrienIreland, 1880 and a prosperous, provincial family observes the three great autumnal feasts of the Church. As Teresa Mulqueen lies dying, her family gather round her and beneath this drama another, no less poignant, unfolds. Unmarried daughter Agnes awaits the return of her sister Marie-Rose and brother-in-law Vincent. She adores her sister, but secretly, pasionately, loves Vincent. And their marriage, she knows, is unhappy...Ahead lies a terrible battle between her uncompromising faith and the intensity of her love. In this delicately imagined novel, originally published in 1934, Kate O'Brien lays bare the struggles between personal need and the Catholic faith with the sympathy and insight which is the hallmark of her craft.