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Total Pages : 624 pages
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Download or read book Arctic Expedition written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Literary World written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 636 pages
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Download or read book The Illustrated London News written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Queensland. Parliament. Library
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Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Analytical and Classified Catalogue of the Library of the Parliament of Queensland written by Queensland. Parliament. Library and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 428 pages
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Download or read book The Literary World written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 436 pages
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Download or read book Army and Navy Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Trevor Levere
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000682382
Total Pages : 520 pages
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Download or read book The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden, R. A., The Naturalist in H. M. S. Alert, 1875-1876 written by Trevor Levere and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Arctic Expedition of 1875–6 was the first major British naval expedition to the high Arctic where science was almost as important as geographical exploration. There were hopes that the expedition might find the hypothetical open polar sea and with it the longed-for Northwest Passage, and it did reach the highest northern latitude to date. The Royal Society compiled instructions for the expedition, and selected two full-time naturalists (an unusual naval concession to science), of whom one, Henry Wemyss Feilden, proved a worthy choice. Feilden was a soldier, who fought in most of the wars in his lifetime, including the American Civil War, on the Confederate side. On board HMS Alert, he kept a daily journal, a record important for its scientific content, but also as a view of the expedition as seen by a soldier, revealing admiration and appreciation for his naval colleagues; he performed whatever tasks were given to him, including the rescue of returning sledge parties stricken by scurvy. He also did a remarkably comprehensive job in mapping the geology of Smith Sound; some of his work, on the Cape Rawson Beds, was the most reliable until the 1950s. He was an all-round naturalist, and a particularly fine geologist and ornithologist. He was not just a collector; he pondered the significance of his findings within the context of the best modern science of his day: in zoology, Charles Darwin on evolution; in botany, Hooker on phytogeography, and in geology, Charles Lyell’s system. He illustrated his journal with his own sketches, and also enclosed the printed programmes of popular entertainments held on the ship, and verses for birthdays and sledging (there was a printing press onboard). The journal gives a vigorous impression of a ship’s company well occupied through the winter, then increasingly active in sledging and geographical discovery in spring, before the scurvy-induced decision to head home in the summer of 1876. After his return, Feilden had dealings with many scientists and their institutions, finding homes for and meaning in his collections.
Author : Sir Clements Robert Markham
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Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Antarctic Obsession written by Sir Clements Robert Markham and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the British National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-'04 by Sir Clements Markham, President of the Royal Geographical Society at the time, and organizer of the expedition. Includes information on the history of Antarctic expeditions, maps, photographs, lists and biographies of personnel, instructions, equipment required for the voyage.
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Total Pages : 386 pages
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Download or read book The Illustrated London Almanack written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mike Vouri
Publisher : University of Washington Press
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Total Pages : 124 pages
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Download or read book Outpost of Empire written by Mike Vouri and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The occupation of San Juan Island by the Royal Marines between 1860 and 1872 marked the last time "redcoats" would be stationed in lands south of the 49th parallel. Following the nearly disastrous "Pig War" crisis, their primary mission with their U.S. Army counterparts was keeping the peace on an island considered ripe for the taking by Britons and Americans alike. Drawing on historical, archaeological and photographic research, Outpost of Empire offers an intriguing glimpse of a frontier garrison in the Victorian age. Mike Vouri is the San Juan National Park historian and author of The Pig War.
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 : W. J. Gordon
Publisher : anboco
ISBN 13 : 3736416342
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Round About the North Pole written by W. J. Gordon and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the many books about the Polar regions there is none quite like this, dealing with the gradual progress of exploration towards the north along the different areas of advance within the Arctic Circle. The subject is always interesting, for few regions have been the scene of more persistent effort and exciting adventure and unexpected gains from the unknown, particularly in the earlier days when the endeavour to find the northern passages to the east and west led to the beginning of our foreign trade. It is often asked, "What is the use of further Arctic discovery?" No one knows. Nor did any one know the use of most discoveries before they were made. When Eric landed in Greenland he was not in search of cryolite for aluminium. When Cabral sailed to Porto Seguro he knew nothing of the incandescent gas-mantle. When Oersted looped the live wire round the magnetic needle he was not bent on founding electrical engineering. And when Linnæus noticed the sleep of plants he had no intention of providing a substitute for a clock in high latitudes where, though vithe sunshine is continuous during the summer, the plants within the Circle sleep as in the night time, their sleeping leaves telling the traveller that midnight is at hand. Men have made up their minds to reach the Pole, and thither they will go. What they will find when they get there may not promise to be much, but what they have found round about it has been enough to influence considerably the history of the world. W. J. G.
Author : Helen Saunders Wright
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
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Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Great White North written by Helen Saunders Wright and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1910 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of arctic exploration from earliest times to 1909 is derived from accounts from the expeditions.
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Total Pages : 566 pages
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Download or read book Arctic Expedition. Journals and Proceedings written by Great Britain. Admiralty and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Cyril Field
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465574379
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book The British Navy Book written by Cyril Field and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Ernest Shackleton
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ISBN 13 : 9780140296204
Total Pages : 411 pages
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Download or read book In the Heart of the Antarctic written by Sir Ernest Shackleton and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frustrated by his experiences on an expedition led by Captain Robert Scott, explorer Ernest Shackleton, in 1907, launched his own attempt to reach the South Pole. At the mercy of a hostile continent it was to become the most extreme test of endurance imaginable. This is his thrilling account of that expedition.
