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The universe. [videorecording (DVD)] / by A&E Home Video (Firm); History Channel (Television network); New Video Group.;
Secrets of the Sun -- The Moon -- Mars: the red planet -- Spaceship Earth -- End of the Earth -- Mercury and Venus: The inner planets -- Jupiter: the giant planet.Narrated by Erik Thompson.Shot in hi-definition, and packed with state-of-the art CGI technology, this set introduces the best-selling franchise to a new audience.E.DVD ; full screen presentation ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Astronomy.; Comets.; Cosmology.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2009., A&E Home Video,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Searching for Franklin : new answers to the great Arctic mystery / by McGoogan, Ken,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Arctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern mystery. Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin's expeditions were monumental failures--the last one leading to more than a hundred deaths, including his own. Yet many still see the Royal Navy man as a heroic figure who sacrificed himself to discovering the Northwest Passage. This book, McGoogan's sixth about Arctic exploration, challenges that vision. It rejects old orthodoxies, incorporates the latest discoveries, and interweaves two main narratives. The first treats the Royal Navy's Arctic Overland Expedition of 1819, a harbinger-misadventure during which Franklin rejected the advice of Dene and Metis leaders and lost eleven of his twenty-one men to exhaustion, starvation, and murder. The second discovers a startling new answer to that greatest of Arctic mysteries: what was the root cause of the catastrophe that engulfed Franklin's last expedition? The well-preserved wrecks of Erebus and Terror--located in 2014 and 2016--promise to yield more clues about what cost the lives of the expedition members, some of whom were reduced to cannibalism. Contemporary researchers, rejecting theories of lead poisoning and botulism, continue to seek conclusive evidence both underwater and on land. Drawing on his own research and Inuit oral accounts, McGoogan teases out many intriguing aspects of Franklin's expeditions, including the explorer's lethal hubris in ignoring the expert advice of the Dene leader Akaitcho. Franklin disappeared into the Arctic in 1845, yet people remain fascinated with his final doomed voyage: what happened? McGoogan will captivate readers with his first-hand account of traveling to relevant locations, visiting the graves of dead sailors, and experiencing the Arctic--one of the most dramatic and challenging landscapes on the planet."-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Franklin, John, 1786-1847.; Great Britain. Royal Navy.; John Franklin Arctic Expedition (1845-1851); Explorers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Alone against the north : an expedition into the unknown / by Shoalts, Adam,1986-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Shoalts, Adam, 1986-; Discoveries in geography.; Explorers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The ice at the end of the world : an epic journey into Greenland's buried past and our perilous future / by Gertner, Jon,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Greenland: remote, mysterious, ice-covered rock, population 56,000, in the middle of the North Atlantic. Why do we care so much about it? Because locked within the the vast and frozen "white desert"--the nickname early explorers gave it--that covers eighty percent of the land are some of the most profound secrets of our planet--clues about where we've been, and where we might be headed. And now, with the ice sheet melting at an unprecedented rate, we are able, for the first time, to understand the story that lies within it, and what it can tell us about our future. In The Ice at the End of the World, Jon Gertner reconstructs in vivid, thrilling detail the heroic efforts of the scientists and explorers who have visited Greenland over the past 150 years--first on skis, then on sleds, and now, with planes and satellites, utilizing every technological tool available to uncover the secrets in the ice before it's too late. Much as he did with his depiction of solid-state engineers and laser scientists in his bestselling book The Idea Factory, Gertner chronicles the amazing advances, almost unfathomable hardships, technological leaps, and scientific achievements of Arctic researchers with a rich, transporting, deeply intelligent style that melds the compelling stories of a small cast of brilliant and eccentric individuals, with a keen, analytical eye toward what this work means for the rest of us"--
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Inuit / by Cuthbert, Megan,1984-; Jablonski-Jones, Martha.;
Includes Internet addresses (p. 23) and index.Explores the key aboriginal legends of the Inuit.LSC
Subjects: Inuit;
© c2014., Weigl Educational Pub. Ltd.,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Métis / by Cuthbert, Megan,1984-; Jablonski-Jones, Martha.;
Includes Internet addresses (p. 23) and index.Explores the key aboriginal legends of the Métis.LSC
Subjects: Métis;
© c2014., Weigl Educational Pub. Ltd.,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Haida / by Cuthbert, Megan,1984-; Jablonski-Jones, Martha.;
Includes Internet addresses (p. 23) and index.Explores the key aboriginal legends of the Haida.LSC
Subjects: Haida Indians;
© c2014., Weigl Educational Pub. Ltd.,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cree / by Cuthbert, Megan,1984-; Jablonski-Jones, Martha.;
Includes Internet addresses (p. 23) and index.Explores the key aboriginal legends of the Cree.LSC
Subjects: Cree Indians;
© c2014., Weigl Educational Pub. Ltd.,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Huron / by Cuthbert, Megan,1984-; Jablonski-Jones, Martha.;
Includes Internet addresses (p. 23) and index.Explores the key aboriginal legends of the Huron.LSC
Subjects: Wyandot Indians;
© c2014., Weigl Educational Pub. Ltd.,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Race to the Polar Sea : the heroic adventures and romantic obsessions of Elisha Kent Kane / by McGoogan, Kenneth,1947-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Fox, Margaret, 1833-1893.; Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857.; Explorers;
© 2008., HarperCollins,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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