Summary: Documents a Danish expedition by a team of scientists to hitherto unexplored fjords in northeast Greenland, which, due to the seasonal melting of glacial ice due to global warming, are now accessible for a few weeks a year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Ehrlich, Gretel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 998.2 EHRGertner, Jon
Summary: "A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change. Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet that covers it is 700 miles wide and 1,500 miles long, and is composed of nearly three quadrillion tons of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 559.8 GERMikkelsen, Ejnar
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.82 MIKBjorklund, Ruth
Summary: Despite its name, Greenland isn’t very green. Rather, it is covered almost entirely in rock, ice, and snow. And though it is the world’s largest island, few people live there. Readers will find out what it is like to live in Greenland’s remote communities. They will also get a look at the country’s interesting history, see which kinds of plants and animals live there, and much more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 998 BJORoberts, David
Summary: "The riveting story of one of the greatest but least-known sagas in the history of exploration from David Roberts, the "dean of adventure writing." By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.8 ROBStrøksnes, Morten Andreas
Summary: In the great depths surrounding the remote Lofoten islands in Norway lives the Greenland shark. Twenty-six feet in length and weighing more than a tonne, it can live for 200 years. Its fluorescent green, parasite-covered eyes are said to hypnotise its prey, and its meat is so riddled with poison that, when consumed, it sends people into a hallucinatory trance. Armed with little more than their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STROKSNES, MORTEN STRSummary: This documentary features two accomplished female cavers as they dive through beautiful caves in Mexico, Greenland, and within the walls of the Grand Canyon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JOUZuckoff, Mitchell.
Summary: In Nov. 1942 a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap, the B-17 sent on the search-and-rescue mission got caught in a storm and also crashed, miraculously all nine men aboard surrived. A second rescue operation was launched, but the plane, the Grumman Duck, flew into a storm and vanished. The survivors of the B-17 spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harpercollins 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5429 ZUCAlley, Richard B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.609 ALLSummary: See the amazing places and people of this remote land. Formerly known as Lonely Planet series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Escapi New Media Studio 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "An exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., April 29, 2000-September 5, 2000."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Institution Press in association with the National Museum of Natural History 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.013 VIKGrant, Neil.
Summary: Presents the saga of the Norse explorer who settled Greenland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 998.2 GRAAlexander, Bryan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crescent Books 1988
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 998 ALEHerbert, Marie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.8 HERTanumihardja, Patricia
Summary: Take a trip around the world to see amazing islands that have formed on Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.42 TANGreenland, Caroline.
Summary: Contains two volumes in one book - Polar bears written by Caroline Greenland; Skunks written by Laima Dingwall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grolier Enterprises, Inc. 1997
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1 available in J Non Fic Series, Call number: J 591Summary: Presents the phenomenon of the polar lights from various aspects. The film crew for this international production shot in Norway, Greenland, Canada, Alaska and New Zealand.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017