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1) Arctic drift
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming . . . a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia . . . a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war . . . NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there's a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to...
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English
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"A dozen women join a secret 1850s Arctic expedition--and a sensational murder trial unfolds when some of them don't come back ... Eccentric Lady Jane Franklin makes an outlandish offer to adventurer Virginia Reeve: take a dozen women, trek into the Arctic, and find her husband's lost expedition. Four parties have failed to find him, and Lady Franklin wants a radical new approach: put the women in charge. A year later, Virginia stands trial for murder....
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English
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"Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845?whose two ships and crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice?with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the incredible discovery of the flagship?s wreck in 2014. Paul Watson, a Pulitzer Prize?winning journalist who was on the icebreaker that led the discovery expedition, tells a fast-paced historical adventure story: Sir John Franklin and...
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English
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"Michael Palin brings the fascinating story of the Erebus and its occupants to life, from its construction as a bomb vessel in 1826 through the flagship years of James Clark Ross's Antarctic expedition and finally to Sir John Franklin's quest for the holy grail of navigation-a route through the Northwest Passage, where the ship disappeared into the depths of the sea for more than 150 years. It was rediscovered under the arctic waters in 2014. Palin...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 83 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The West begins as the whole world to the people who live there. It becomes a New World when Europeans arrive, a world shaken by incompatible visions. And almost three centuries later, when Lewis and Clark venture west to find a Northwest Passage, this world becomes the testing-ground for a young nation's continent-spanning dream.
7) Torn
Author
Series
The missing volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
345 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Time travelers Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 to rescue missing child John Hudson, son of the explorer Henry Hudson, but just as the mutiny on the Discovery is supposed to start, Jonah and Katherine's knowledge of history is tested once again, and they fear that more is at stake than just one boy's life. Author's note includes facts about Henry Hudson's explorations.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xvi, 441 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Documents the experiences of nineteenth-century adventurers who searched for the Northwest Passage, describing the sixteenth-century myths that inspired their pursuits and the ways in which many met tragic ends when confronting the harsh Arctic elements.
11) The rifles
Author
Series
Seven dreams volume 5
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
411 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
12) Passage
Publisher
Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1845, celebrated British explorer Sir John Franklin, along with his crew of 128 men, set sail from England in search of a fabled passage west. None of them were ever seen again. A search party found no evidence of any crew or wreckage. The mystery was eventually solved by John Rae, and they were so horrific that a public campaign was begun to discredit Rae.
Publisher
AMC Film Holdings
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (473 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, follow the British Royal Navy's perilous voyage into unchartered territory as the crew attempts to discover the Northwest Passage. Faced with treacherous conditions, limited resources, dwindling hope and fear of the unknown, the crew is pushed to the brink of extinction. Frozen, isolated and stuck at the end of the earth, it highlights all that can go wrong when a group of men, desperate to survive, struggle not only with...
14) Arctic explorations: the Second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, 54, 55
Author
Series
Lakeside classics volume 94
Publisher
Lakeside Press
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
lix, 447 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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