The Lands of Silence: A History of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration - Brossura

Markham, Clements R.

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ISBN 10: 1108076874 ISBN 13: 9781108076876

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Riassunto

Published posthumously in 1921, Markham's illustrated history draws on his extensive knowledge of contemporary polar explorers and expeditions.

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Descrizione del libro

Sir Clements R. Markham (1830–1916) served as president of the Royal Geographical Society and knew the prominent polar explorers of his day. Completed by the Cambridge geographer F. H. H. Guillemard (1852–1933), Markham's illustrated history, published posthumously in 1921, draws on his extensive knowledge of Arctic and Antarctic expeditions.

Contenuti

Preface; Part I. 1. The Arctic regions; 2. Ice and icebergs; 3. Tribes around the pole; 4. Ultima Thule; 5. First crossing of the threshold; 6. The Norsemen in Greenland; 7. Nicholas of Lynn - Zeno - medieval nautical instruments; 8. First English voyages to the north-east - Willoughby - Chancellor Burroughs - Pet; 9. Barentsz - Linschoten - De Veer; 10. Sir Martin Frobisher; 11. John Davis; 12. The merchant adventurers and Richard Hakluyt; 13. Greenland voyage of Hall and Baffin; 14. Early Spitsbergen voyages; 15. Early voyages to Hudson's Bay; 16. William Baffin; 17. Jens Eriksen Munk - Foxe and James - Wood; 18. Hans Egede and Danish Greenland; 19. The Hudson's Bay Company - Hearne and Mackenzie - Cook and Phipps; 20. Russian Arctic discoveries; 21. The British whale fishery and the Scoresbys; 22. Buchan and Ross; 23. Parry and his school; 24. Discovery of the north coast of America - Franklin - Richardson - Back - Dease - Simpson - Rae; 25. John Ross, James Ross, and the north magnetic pole; 26. The Franklin expedition; 27. The search for Franklin I; 28. The search for Franklin II; 29. Discovery of the fate of Franklin; 30. The east coast of Greenland - Scoresby - Clavering - Graah - Koldewey; 31. Spitsbergen - expeditions before 1872; 32. Franz Josef Land and its explorers; 33. The route by Smith Sound - Kane - Hayes - Hall - Nares - Markham; 34. Sir Allen Youn and the Pandora - Amundsen and the North West Passage; 35. Weyprecht's plan for synchronous observations - the Greely expedition; 36. The North East Passage - Nordenskiöld - Wiggins - De Long; 37. Greenland and its inland ice - Nordenskiöld, Nansen, Peary; 38. The trans-polar drift - Nansen and the voyage of the Fram; 39. The Parry archipelago - Sverdrup; 40. Attempts to reach the north pole - Cagni - Cook - Peary; 41. Koolemans Beynen and the voyages of the Willem Barentsz - Sir Martin Conway and Spitsbergen - Captain Bernier and Canadian Arctic lands; 42. East coast of Greenland - Danish expeditions; 43. Later Greenland explorations - Mikkelsen - Rasmussen - Koch; 44. Conclusion; Part II. 45. The great southern continent; 46. Captain Cook - Bellingshausen; 47. The South Shetlands - Foster - Weddell; 48. Enderby and his captains: Biscoe - Kempe - Balleny; 49. Dumont D'Urville and Wilkes; 50. First Antarctic voyage of Sir James Ross; 51. Second Antarctic voyage; 52. Third Antarctic voyage of Sir James Ross; 53. Antarctic oceanography; 54. Revival of Antarctic exploration; 55. Private expeditions - Borchgrevink - Gerlache - Nordenskiöld - Bruce - Drygalksi - Charcot - Filchner; 56. Preparations for the Societies' Antarctic expedition; 57. The Societies' Antarctic expedition - first year; 58. The Societies' Antarctic expedition - the Morning; 59. The Societies' Antarctic expedition - second year; 60. Shackleton's attempt to reach the pole; 61. Amundsen's journey to the south pole; 62. Mawson's expedition; 63. Captain Scott's last expedition; 64. Captain Scott's last expedition - the end; 65. Remaining Antarctic work; Chronology of polar voyages and explorations; Brief bibliography of polar voyages and travels; Index.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1108076874
• ISBN 13: 9781108076876
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 612
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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