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1) First light
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Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Peter and his family arrive in Greenland for his father's research, he stumbles upon a secret his mother has been hiding from him all his life, and begins an adventure he never imagines possible.
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 15
Language
English
Description
To save the world and our future, Sigma Force must embark on a dangerous odyssey into an ancient past whose horrors are all too present in this page-turning thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins that combines cutting-edge science, historical mystery, mythology, and pulse-pounding action.
For eons, the city of Troy—whose legendary fall was detailed in Homer's Iliad—was believed to be
...Author
Series
Konrad Simonsen novels volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An ice melt reveals the body of a girl half-naked and tied up, buried hundreds of miles from any signs of life. She has lain alone, hidden in an ice cap in Greenland's arctic circle, for twenty-five years. When Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen is flown in to investigate this horrific murder, it triggers a dark memory-- he realizes this was not the killer's only victim. Disturbing details about the moral standing of some of Denmark's...
5) Greenland
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Learn about the people, history and culture of Greenland.
6) Cold earth
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A team of six archaeologists from the United States, England, and Scotland assembles at the beginning of the Arctic summer to unearth traces of the lost Viking settlements in Greenland. But as they sink into uneasy domesticity, there is news of an epidemic back home, and their communications with the outside world fall away. Facing a Greenland winter for which they are hopelessly ill-equipped, Nina, Ruth, Catriona, Jim, Ben, and Yianni, knowing that...
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English
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Five friends attempt to find themselves in the nightlife of Greenland's capital city in this "audacious and honest, sorrowful and triumphant" debut novel (NPR).
In a collection of blurry nights and bleary mornings after, Greenlandic author Niviaq Korneliussen weaves together the coming of age of five young people in the city of Nuuk.
Fia has recently sworn off men only to discover that the woman she wants is unavailable. Her brother Inuk is forced...
8) The last ice
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
For centuries, Inuit in the Arctic have lived on and around the frozen ocean. Now, as climate change is rapidly melting the sea ice between Canada and Greenland, development here threatens to upset the delicate balance between their communities, land and wildlife.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"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,...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Danish
Description
On a three-masted schooner packed with artists, scientists and ambitions worthy of Noah or Columbus, a crew sets sail for the end of the world: the rapidly melting massifs of Northeast Greenland. It is an epic journey, with the brave explorers on board encountering polar bear nightmares, Stone Age playgrounds and entirely new species. But in their meetings with these new and unknown parts of the world, the crew is also confronted with the existential...
17) Iceland
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Series
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English
Description
A new, thoroughly updated edition of Bradt's Iceland, recipient of the Lowell Thomas Award (the highest travel writing award available in the United States) providing more context for individual places than any other guidebook, plus honest, investigative hotel and restaurant reviews that hide nothing. Based on 20 years of personal and business travel, exploration and adventure all around the country, Bradt's Iceland is in-depth, well-researched and...
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English
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The remarkable story of Gudrid, the female explorer who sailed from Iceland to the New World a millennium ago. Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details...
19) Reykjavik
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Series
Language
English
Description
This edition of the Bradt guide to Reykjavik by expert author Andrew Evans combines what to see and do with maps, walking and cycling tours, one-day tour recommendations, historical and cultural perspectives and suggestions for hotels, guest houses, restaurants, cafés and bars as well as detailed information on city transport, shopping, other activities and out-of-town recommendations. It is written in an engaging and colourful style that sets out...
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English
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The sea animals have disappeared, and people are starving. An old couple, once great shamans, are asked to journey to the Mother of the Sea to find out what happened to the animals. But the journey is dangerous and the old woman does not know if she will be able to please the Mother of the Sea and convince her to free the animals the people of her community so desperately need. The Mother of the Sea is an important character in Inuit traditional stories...
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