Author: George Strong NaresPublisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The Official Report of the Recent Arctic Expedition
Author: George Strong NaresPublisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The Official Report of the Recent Arctic Expedition
Author: Captain NaresPublisher: Shelley Press
ISBN: 9781446081150
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
House of Commons Debates, Official Report
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden, R. A., The Naturalist in H. M. S. Alert, 1875-1876
Author: Trevor LeverePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000682382
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
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.
The Official Report of the Recent Arctic Expedition
Author: George Strong NaresPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Report of the Committee Appointed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to Inquire Into and Report on the Recent Arctic Expeditions in Search of Sir John Franklin
Author: Great Britain. Admiralty. Arctic CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Abstract of the Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society
Author: Liverpool Geological SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society
Author: Technical Report
Author: Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frozen ground
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Catalogue of the British Section of the International Exhibition of the Book Industry & Graphic Arts
Author: Great Britain. Board of Trade. Exhibitions BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description