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Book Synopsis The Royal Geographical Society and the Arctic Expedition of 1875-76 by : Clements Robert Markham
Download or read book The Royal Geographical Society and the Arctic Expedition of 1875-76 written by Clements Robert Markham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1877, this report on the progress of an Arctic expedition demonstrates the approaches adopted in the nineteenth century.
Download or read book Muskox Land written by Lyle Dick and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muskox Land provides a meticulously researched and richly illustrated treatment of Canada's High Arctic as it interweaves insights from historiography, Native studies, ecology, anthropology, and polar exploration.
Book Synopsis The Arctic in the British imagination 1818–1914 by : Rob David
Download or read book The Arctic in the British imagination 1818–1914 written by Rob David and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arctic region has been the subject of much popular writing. This book considers nineteenth-century representations of the Arctic, and draws upon an extensive range of evidence that will allow the 'widest connections' to emerge from a 'cross-disciplinary analysis' using different methodologies and subject matter. It positions the Arctic alongside more thoroughly investigated theatres of Victorian enterprise. In the nineteenth century, most images were in the form of paintings, travel narratives, lectures given by the explorers themselves and photographs. The book explores key themes in Arctic images which impacted on subsequent representations through text, painting and photography. For much of the nineteenth century, national and regional geographical societies promoted exploration, and rewarded heroic endeavor. The book discusses images of the Arctic which originated in the activities of the geographical societies. The Times provided very low-key reporting of Arctic expeditions, as evidenced by its coverage of the missions of Sir John Franklin and James Clark Ross. However, the illustrated weekly became one of the main sources of popular representations of the Arctic. The book looks at the exhibitions of Arctic peoples, Arctic exploration and Arctic fauna in Britain. Late nineteenth-century exhibitions which featured the Arctic were essentially nostalgic in tone. The Golliwogg's Polar Adventures, published in 1900, drew on adult representations of the Arctic and will have confirmed and reinforced children's perceptions of the region. Text books, board games and novels helped to keep the subject alive among the young.
Book Synopsis The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden, R. A., The Naturalist in H. M. S. Alert, 1875-1876 by : Trevor Levere
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.
Book Synopsis Imagining the Arctic by : Huw Lewis-Jones
Download or read book Imagining the Arctic written by Huw Lewis-Jones and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to convince their contemporaries of the merits of polar voyages. Much of exploration was in fact theatre: a series of performances to capture public attention and persuade governments to finance ambitious proposals. The achievements of explorers were promoted, celebrated, and manipulated, whilst explorers themselves became the subject of huge attention. Huw Lewis-Jones draws upon recovered texts and striking images, many reproduced for the first time since the nineteenth century, to show how exploration was projected through a series of spectacular visuals, helping us to reconstruct the ways that heroes and the wilderness were imagined. Elegantly written and richly illustrated, Imagining the Arctic offers original insights into our understanding of exploration and its pull on the public imagination.
Download or read book The Arctic Grail written by Pierre Berton and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scores of nineteenth-century expeditions battled savage cold, relentless ice and winter darkness in pursuit of two great prizes: the quest for the elusive Passage linking the Atlantic and the Pacific and the international race to reach the North Pole. Pierre Berton's #1 best-selling book brings to life the great explorers: the pious and ambitious Edward Parry, the flawed hero John Franklin, ruthless Robert Peary and the cool Norwegian Roald Amundsen. He also credits the Inuit, whose tracking and hunting skills saved the lives of the adventurers and their men countless times. These quests are peopled with remarkable figures full of passion and eccentricity. They include Charles Hall, an obscure printer who abandoned family and business to head to a frozen world of which he knew nothing; John Ross, whose naval career ended when he spotted a range of mountains that didn't exist; Frederick Cook, who faked reaching the North Pole; and Jane Franklin, who forced an expensive search for her missing husband upon a reluctant British government. Pierre Berton, who won his first Governor General's award for The Mysterious North, here again gives us an important and fascinating history that reads like a novel as he examines the historic events of the golden age of Arctic exploration.
Book Synopsis Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 1 by : Peter J Kitson
Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 1 written by Peter J Kitson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.
Book Synopsis Exploring Polar Frontiers [2 volumes] by : William James Mills
Download or read book Exploring Polar Frontiers [2 volumes] written by William James Mills and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-12-11 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the entire history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration, from the voyage of Pytheas ca. 325 B.C. to the present, in one convenient, comprehensive reference resource. Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia is the only reference work that provides a comprehensive history of polar exploration from the ancient period through the present day. The author is a noted polar scholar and offers dramatic accounts of all major explorers and their expeditions, together with separate exploration histories for specific islands, regions, and uncharted waters. He presents a wealth of fascinating information under a variety of subject entries including methods of transport, myths, achievements, and record-breaking activities. By approaching polar exploration biographically, geographically, and topically, Mills reveals a number of intriguing connections between the various explorers, their patrons and times, and the process of discovery in all areas of the polar regions. Furthermore, he provides the reader with a clear understanding of the intellectual climate as well as the dominant social, economic, and political forces surrounding each expedition. Readers will learn why the journeys were undertaken, not just where, when, and how.
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London by : Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Empire of Ice by : Edward J. Larson
Download or read book An Empire of Ice written by Edward J. Larson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the pioneering Antarctic expeditions of the early twentieth century within the context of a larger scientific, social, and geopolitical context.
Book Synopsis Manuscripts in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England by : Scott Polar Research Institute
Download or read book Manuscripts in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England written by Scott Polar Research Institute and published by New York : Garland Pub.. This book was released on 1982 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details of the manuscripts held by the Scott Polar Research Institute which include many journals of expeditions to the arctic and antarctic.
Book Synopsis General Index to the Proceedings by : Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Download or read book General Index to the Proceedings written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Discovery and Exploration: The Old World by : Alan Edwin Day
Download or read book Discovery and Exploration: The Old World written by Alan Edwin Day and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Admiral Albert Hastings Markham by : Frank Jastrzembski
Download or read book Admiral Albert Hastings Markham written by Frank Jastrzembski and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a 19th-century adventurer who battled pirates, hunted buffalo, sailed the Arctic, and was “one of the most arresting figures of his time” (The Globe). Few men have lived such an extraordinary life as Admiral Albert Hastings Markham. Besides dedicating five decades of his career to Britain’s Royal Navy, Markham was a voracious reader, prolific writer, keen naturalist, and daring explorer. He battled Chinese pirates during the Second Opium War and Taiping Rebellion; chased down Australian blackbirding ships in the South Pacific; trekked to within 400 miles of the North Pole; hunted buffalo and visited Indian reservations in the United States; observed a bloody war in South America; canoed Canada’s remote Hayes River; and explored the icy waters of Baffin Bay and the Arctic Ocean archipelago of Novaya Zemlya. At the time of his death in 1918, The Globe declared that Markham had been “one of the most arresting figures of his time.” While Markham’s life was filled with adventure, it was also marred by tragedy. Regrettably, Markham is best remembered for his role in the sinking of HMS Victoria in 1893. This one incident has tarnished his legacy until now. This book follows Markham through his adventures and misfortunes—and reassesses the life of this forgotten yet fascinating admiral.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of Wilberforce Eames (of the New York Public Library)... by : Wilberforce Eames
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Wilberforce Eames (of the New York Public Library)... written by Wilberforce Eames and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of Wilberforce Eames ... by : Wilberforce Eames
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Wilberforce Eames ... written by Wilberforce Eames and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Royal Society of Canada. Symposium Publisher :Royal Society of Canada = Société royale du Canada ISBN 13 : Total Pages :392 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis A Century of Canada's Arctic Islands, 1880-1980, 23rd Symposium by : Royal Society of Canada. Symposium
Download or read book A Century of Canada's Arctic Islands, 1880-1980, 23rd Symposium written by Royal Society of Canada. Symposium and published by Royal Society of Canada = Société royale du Canada. This book was released on 1981 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the 23rd Symposium of the Royal Society of Canada, held in Yellowknife, N.W.T. in August 1980. Papers include reports by natural scientists on their investigations and inventories, examinations of Inuit culture, and reports on the effectiveness of Canadian administration and management of the environment.
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