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Matthiessen discusses a wide range of topics relating to Antarctica, including the geological and hydrographic forces that historically led to the formation of the continent in the first place, the history (and environmental politics) of southern whaling, the details of many of its native species, and the vexed question of global warming and ...
Etidorhpa belongs to a subgenre of fiction that shares elements of science fiction, fantasy, utopian fiction, and scientific (or pseudoscientific) speculation. [4] Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth is the most famous book of this type, though many others can be cited.
Journeys to the Ends of the Earth is a 1999 television series produced by the Discovery Channel. Its two-year production made it the most expensive adventure travel series ever commissioned in Australia. The series was co-created by Stuart Scowcroft with series producer by Tim Toni and co-produced by David Adams.
Earth Day is on April 22, but really, it should be every day—saving the planet should be a daily occurrence! From conservation to wildlife to politics, test your environmental and historical ...
Notes from an Apocalypse is an investigative book about the anxieties of a potential ecological and social collapse and the movements of survivalism that have followed. Mark O'Connell describes his experiences at the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, survival bunkers in South Dakota, an apocalyptic retreat in New Zealand, and with the environmentalist group Dark Mountain Project in the Scottish Highlands.
The dates given are those of the first publication in book form. Five Weeks in a Balloon (Cinq semaines en ballon, 1863) The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras, 1866) Journey to the Center of the Earth (Voyage au centre de la Terre, 1864, revised 1867) From the Earth to the Moon (De la terre à la lune, 1865)
To the Ends of the Earth is a trilogy of nautical novels—Rites of Passage (1980), Close Quarters (1987), and Fire Down Below (1989)—by British author William Golding.Set on a former British man-of-war transporting migrants to Australia in the early 19th century, the novels explore themes of class and man's reversion to savagery when isolated, in this case, the closed society of the ship's ...
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.