Author: Peter Lund SimmondsPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Arctic Regions, and Polar Discoveries During the Nineteenth Century
Author: Peter Lund SimmondsPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions
Author: Adrian HowkinsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108627951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
The Cambridge History of the Polar Regions is a landmark collection drawing together the history of the Arctic and Antarctica from the earliest times to the present. Structured as a series of thematic chapters, an international team of scholars offer a range of perspectives from environmental history, the history of science and exploration, cultural history, and the more traditional approaches of political, social, economic, and imperial history. The volume considers the centrality of Indigenous experience and the urgent need to build action in the present on a thorough understanding of the past. Using historical research based on methods ranging from archives and print culture to archaeology and oral histories, these essays provide fresh analyses of the discovery of Antarctica, the disappearance of Sir John Franklin, the fate of the Norse colony in Greenland, the origins of the Antarctic Treaty, and much more. This is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history of our planet.
Arctic Explorations and Discoveries During the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Mosheim SmuckerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
Book Description
Polar Pioneers
Author: M. RossPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773565035
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
In 1818 John Ross led an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage. He got as far as Baffin Bay, but when he reached the only practicable entrance to the passage he declared it to be no more than a bay enclosed by mountains. In subsequent years he was widely derided for that error and carried the scars of public and professional humiliation for the rest of his life. In 1829 he mounted a private expedition to search for the passage, during which he became trapped in the Canadian Arctic and survived a four-year ordeal of isolation and hardship. He proved that whatever his shortcomings as an explorer, he could never be accused of lacking courage. James Clark Ross was one of the most experienced and respected explorers of his day. He led or took part in eight expeditions to the Arctic, including John Ross' 1818 and 1829 expeditions and three with the great explorer William Edward Parry. He also led a highly successful scientific expedition to the Antarctic in 1839-43. His many important discoveries included locating the North Magnetic Pole, and he ensured the presence of the Ross family name throughout both polar regions: Ross Island, Ross Ice Shelf, and Ross Sea in the Antarctic; James Ross Strait, Ross Bay, Ross Point, and Rossøya in the Arctic. Drawing on family papers and extensive research, M.J. Ross traces the careers of these two very different men, highlighting their achievements and defeats, and presents a detailed picture of their private lives.
The Arctic Regions
Author: P. L. SimmondsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385203848
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Catalogue of Books in the South Boston Branch Library of the Boston Public Library
Author: Boston Public Library. South Boston BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Arctic Explorations and discoveries during the nineteenth century, being detailed accounts of the several expeditions to the North Seas ... conducted by Ross, Parry, Back, Franklin, M'Clure and others. Including the first Grinnell expedition under Lieutenant De Haven, and the ... effort of Dr. E. K. Kane in search of Sir John Franklin. Edited and completed by S. M. Schmucker
Author: Samuel Moshaim SCHMUCKERPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 6
Author: Gowan DawsonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 104024405X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters.
Tracing the Connected Narrative
Author: Janice CavellPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442691697
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
By the 1850s, journalists and readers alike perceived Britain's search for the Northwest Passage as an ongoing story in the literary sense. Because this 'story' appeared, like so many nineteenth-century novels, in a series of installments in periodicals and reviews, it gained an appeal similar to that of fiction. Tracing the Connected Narrative examines written representations of nineteenth-century British expeditions to the Canadian Arctic. It places Arctic narratives in the broader context of the print culture of their time, especially periodical literature, which played an important role in shaping the public's understanding of Arctic exploration. Janice Cavell uncovers similarities between the presentation of exploration reports in periodicals and the serialized fiction that, she argues, predisposed readers to take an interest in the prolonged quest for the Northwest Passage. Cavell examines the same parallel in relation to the famous disappearance and subsequent search for the Franklin expedition. After the fate of Sir John Franklin had finally been revealed, the Illustrated London News printed a list of earlier articles on the missing expedition, suggesting that the public might wish to re-read them in order to 'trace the connected narrative' of this chapter in the Arctic story. Through extensive research and reference to new archival material, Cavell undertakes this task and, in the process, recaptures and examines the experience of nineteenth-century readers.
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