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UNINA9910795749403321 |
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Owen Barbara |
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The organ music of Johannes Brahms [[electronic resource] /] / by Barbara Owen |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
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Organ music - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. ), discography (p. ), and index. |
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UNINA9910779266603321 |
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Autore |
Coen Ross Allen |
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Breaking ice for Arctic oil [[electronic resource] ] : the epic voyage of the SS Manhattan through the Northwest Passage / / Ross Coen |
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Fairbanks, : University of Alaska Press, 2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Petroleum - Transportation - Alaska |
Tankers - United States - History |
Oil fields - Alaska |
Northwest Passage |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-204) and index. |
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Strike at Prudhoe Bay State no. 1 -- No cream puff -- Submarines, blimps, trains, and ships -- "Bienvenu dans ces eaux. Welcome to Canadian waters" -- A floating laboratory -- In the passage -- Through the passage -- What did the Manhattan prove? -- Roundtrip -- Epilogue. |
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In 1969, an icebreaking tanker, the SS Manhattan, was commissioned by Humble Oil to transit the Northwest Passage in order to test the logistical and economic feasibility of an all-marine transportation system for Alaska North Slope crude oil. Proposed as an alternative to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, the Manhattan made two voyages to the North American Arctic and collected volumes of scientific data on ice conditions and the behavior of ships in ice. Although the Manhattan successfully navigated the Northwest Passage-closing a five-hundred-year chapter of Arctic exploration by becoming. |
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