Andrea Pitzer
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xi, 301 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The human story has always been one of perseverance-- often against remarkable odds. The most astonishing survival tale of all might be that of 16th-century Dutch explorer William Barents and his crew of sixteen, who ventured farther north than any Europeans before and, on their third polar exploration, lost their ship off the frozen coast of Nova Zembla to unforgiving ice. The men would spend the next year fighting off ravenous polar bears, gnawing...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
x, 466 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Reveals history of concentration camps from 1890s Cuba to China and North Korea during the Cold War, discussing their use for civilian relocation and exposing their role as dehumanizing sites for political repression that have claimed millions of lives.