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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.
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 . This book was released on 1875 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Royal Geographical Society and the Arctic Expedition of 1875-76 by : Sir Clements Robert Markham
Download or read book The Royal Geographical Society and the Arctic Expedition of 1875-76 written by Sir Clements Robert Markham and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London by : Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Download or read book The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes list of members.
Download or read book Nansen written by Roland Huntford and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar exploration, the last act of territorial discovery before the leap into space began. Nansen was a prime illustration of Carlyle's dictum that 'the history of the world is but the biography of great men'. He was not merely a pioneer in the wildly diverse fields of oceanography and skiing, but one of the founders of neurology. A restless, unquiet Faustian spirit, Nansen was a Renaissance Man born out of his time into the new Norway of Ibsen and Grieg. He was an artist and historian, a diplomat who had dealings with Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, and played a part in the Versailles Peace Conference, where he helped the Americans in their efforts to contain the Bolsheviks. He also undertook famine relief in Russia. Finally, working for the League of Nations as both High Commissioner for Refugees and High Commissioner for the Repatriation of Prisoners of War, he became the first of the modern media-conscious international civil servants.
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 Supplement to thr Alphabetical Catalogue of the Liobrary of the Royal Geographical Society by : John Murray
Download or read book Supplement to thr Alphabetical Catalogue of the Liobrary of the Royal Geographical Society written by John Murray and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute by : Royal Empire Society. Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute written by Royal Empire Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute by : Royal Commonwealth Society. Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute written by Royal Commonwealth Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Zoological Society of London by : Zoological Society of London. Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Zoological Society of London written by Zoological Society of London. Library and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 1878 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography by : Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue by : Zoological Society of London. Library
Download or read book Catalogue written by Zoological Society of London. Library and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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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.
