1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910715893703321

Titolo

Clerks -- State Department. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a list of clerks employed in that Department. February 14, 1856. -- Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : [publisher not identified], , 1856

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (3 pages) : tables

Collana

Ex. doc. / 34th Congress, 1st session. House ; ; no. 4

[United States congressional serial set ] ; ; [serial no. 844]

Soggetti

Revenue

Factory and trade waste

Wages

Clerks

Civil service

Messengers

Financial statements

Legislative materials.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Batch processed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.

FDLP item number not assigned.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789613403321

Autore

Rozell Ned <1963->

Titolo

Finding Mars [[electronic resource] /] / Ned Rozell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fairbanks, Alaska, : University of Alaska Press, c2011

ISBN

1-60223-123-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.)

Disciplina

551.3/84

Soggetti

Scientists - Japan

Permafrost - Research - Alaska

Alaska Climate

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Not like the other boys -- Fourth rock from the sun -- Wretched little port -- Empty spots -- Wind is the eskimo's friend -- Dare to fail -- Usually, you die -- Secret of the permafrost -- To the end of the Earth -- The wine-dark sea -- The night of winter -- Some kind of big changing.

Sommario/riassunto

Finding Mars is an interwoven tale of science, travel, and adventure, as science writer Ned Rozell accompanies permafrost researcher-and inveterate wanderer-Kenji Yoshikawa on a 750-mile trek by snowmobile through the Alaska wilderness. Along the way, Rozell learns about Yoshikawa's fascinating life, from his boyhood in Tokyo to the youthful wanderlust that led him to push a wheeled cart across the Sahara, ski to the South Pole, and take a sailboat into the frozen reaches of the Arctic Ocean, spending a winter frozen in the ice near Barrow. It's an always on-the-move account of a man driven n.