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Author : Elisha Kent Kane
Publisher : London : T. Nelson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Arctic Explorations in Search of Sir John Franklin written by Elisha Kent Kane and published by London : T. Nelson. This book was released on 1885 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elisha Kent Kane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331876229
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (762 download)
Download or read book Arctic Explorations, Vol. 1 written by Elisha Kent Kane and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Arctic Explorations, Vol. 1: The Second Grinnell Expedition, in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55 Having purchased the stereotype plates of the "First Grinnell Expedition," by Dr. Kane, we have improved it by the addition of many new illustrations, together with a fine steel portrait of Sir John Franklin, and a sketch of his life, extracted from Allibone s forthcoming Dictionary of Literature and Authors. We will hereafter issue the volume in a style to correspond with the present work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Scott Cookman
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780471042150
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Ice Blink written by Scott Cookman and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elisha Kent Kane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Arctic Explorations written by Elisha Kent Kane and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Mangles
Publisher : London : F. and J. Rivington
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Papers and Despatches Relating to the Arctic Searching Expeditions of 1850-51-52 written by James Mangles and published by London : F. and J. Rivington. This book was released on 1852 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elisha Kent Kane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331885962
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (859 download)
Download or read book Arctic Explorations, Vol. 2 written by Elisha Kent Kane and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Arctic Explorations, Vol. 2: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55 "January 6, 1855, Saturday. - If this journal ever gets to be inspected by other eyes, the color of its pages will tell of the atmosphere it is written in. We have been emulating the Esquimaux for some time in every thing else; and now, last of all, this intolerable temperature and our want of fuel have driven us to rely on our lamps for heat. Counting those which I have added since the wanderers came back, we have twelve constantly going, with the grease and soot everywhere in proportion. "I can hardly keep my charts and registers in any thing like decent trim. Our beds and bedding are absolutely black, and our faces begrimed with fatty carbon like the Esquimaux of South Greenland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Hester Blum
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478004487
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The News at the Ends of the Earth written by Hester Blum and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 search for the Northwest Passage to early twentieth-century sprints to the South Pole, polar expeditions produced an extravagant archive of documents that are as varied as they are engaging. As the polar ice sheets melt, fragments of this archive are newly emergent. In The News at the Ends of the Earth Hester Blum examines the rich, offbeat collection of printed ephemera created by polar explorers. Ranging from ship newspapers and messages left in bottles to menus and playbills, polar writing reveals the seamen wrestling with questions of time, space, community, and the environment. Whether chronicling weather patterns or satirically reporting on penguin mischief, this writing provided expedition members with a set of practices to help them survive the perpetual darkness and harshness of polar winters. The extreme climates these explorers experienced is continuous with climate change today. Polar exploration writing, Blum contends, offers strategies for confronting and reckoning with the extreme environment of the present.
Author : John Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22 written by John Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions written by John Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Day
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081086519X
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Passage written by Alan Day and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006-01-03 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Northwest Passage was repeatedly sought for over four centuries. From the first attempt in the late 15th century to Roald Amundsen's famous voyage of 1903-1906 where the feat was first accomplished to expeditions in the late 1940s by the Mounties to discover an even more northern route, author Alan Day covers all aspects of the ongoing quest that excited the imagination of the world. This compendium of explorers, navigators, and expeditions tackles this broad topic with a convenient, but extensive cross-referenced dictionary. A chronology traces the long succession of treks to find the passage, the introduction helps explain what motivated them, and the bibliography provides a means for those wishing to discover more information on this exciting subject.
Author : Kane Elisha Kent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780259724841
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Arctic Explorations in Search of Sir John Franklin written by Kane Elisha Kent and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Mangles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332228843
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (288 download)
Download or read book Papers and Despatches Relating to the Arctic Searching Expeditions of 1850-51-52 written by James Mangles and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Papers and Despatches Relating to the Arctic Searching Expeditions of 1850-51-52: Together With a Few Brief Remarks as to the Probable Course Pursued by Sir John Franklin The Section which accompanies the Pamphlet is a tenth part of the Admiralty Chart of the North Polar Sea; consequently, ten such would include the whole area of the Arctic Regions. The simple method of working the keys (see the five examples given) is the same as that devised for the suggested "Universal Illustrated Geography And Hydrography." In the large work, no more difficulty would he experienced in ascertaining the precise position of any required place in the world, generally, than is here encountered in discovering - by means of the Keys, Beechey Island, Cape Herschel, Cape Sir John Franklin, or any other point included in our Arctic List. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Elisha Kent Kane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108041418
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Arctic Explorations written by Elisha Kent Kane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-29 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1856, this two-volume work describes the second Grinnell expedition (1853-5) in search of Sir John Franklin.
Author : Kirsten Hastrup
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000952908
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Early Ethnography in the American Arctic written by Kirsten Hastrup and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a portrait of early ethnographic work in the American Arctic, with a focus on understanding the mutual constitution of the Inuit and their early ethnographers. It draws mainly on a rich repository of written testimonies from the early twentieth century, the ‘great ethnographic period’ when new scholarly interest in the region took off. Supplementing the movements and observations of whalers, traders, and missionaries, the early chroniclers offered new knowledge of Inuit life. Although their descriptions of the Inuit bear the marks of their time, the texts have left a deep mark on later developments and contributed to a long-lasting view of human life in the Arctic. The chapters show the infiltration of lives and landscapes, of thoughts and materials, of Inuit and ethnographers. The book will be relevant to anthropologists as well as historians, geographers, and others with an interest the Arctic region and Indigenous studies.
Author : Shane McCorristine
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787352455
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book The Spectral Arctic written by Shane McCorristine and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships.
Author : Elisha Kent Kane
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528792580
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack - From the History of the First U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin written by Elisha Kent Kane and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1845, British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin (1786–1847) embarked on his third and final expedition into the Canadian Arctic to force the Northwest Passage. After two years with no word, a £20,000 reward was offered to anyone who could find the expedition, leading to many rescue attempts. Two such attempts were undertaken by Elisha Kent Kane (1820–1857), American explorer and United States Navy medical officer. Despite contracting scurvy and suffering greatly during his 1853 attempt, he continued on and went further north than any other explorer had managed. Kane was eventually forced to relinquish the icebound brig “Advance” on May 20, 1855 and spent the next 83 days marching to Upernavik carrying the invalids—losing but one man on the perilous journey. “Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack” contains Kane's personal account of his courageous but ill-fated rescue mission, detailing the perilous conditions they had to endure and how they were able to survive against all odds in the Arctic wasteland. Highly recommended for those with an interest in Arctic exploration and history in general. Read & Co. History is republishing this classic memoir now in a brand new edition complete with an introductory biography by John Knox Laughton.
Author : Glenn M. Stein
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476622035
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Discovering the North-West Passage written by Glenn M. Stein and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1850 to 1854, the ambitious Commander Robert McClure captained the HMS Investigator on a voyage in search of the missing Franklin Expedition, which sailed from England into the Arctic in 1845 to map the last uncharted section of the North-West Passage. The Investigator and her consort the Enterprise were to pass through the Bering Strait from the west but a Pacific storm separated them, never to meet again. Obsessed with traversing the passage, McClure pressed on and HMS Investigator spent three years trapped in pack ice in Mercy Bay before the crew abandoned ship on foot. This book chronicles the voyage in detail. McClure and his relationships with his officers are at the heart of the story of the arduous journey, vividly illustrated by the paintings of Lt. Samuel Cresswell.
