Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer - Brossura

Capelotti, P. J.

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ISBN 10: 1552387054 ISBN 13: 9781552387054

Casa editrice: Univ of Calgary Pr, 2013

Riassunto

Mentioned in BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24281727

Benjamin Leigh Smith discovered and named dozens of islands in the Arctic but published no account of his pioneering explorations. He refused public accolades and sent stand-ins to deliver the results of his work to scientific societies. Yet, the Royal Geographic Society's Sir Clements R. Markham referred to him as a polar explorer of the first rank.

Traveling to the Arctic islands that Leigh Smith explored and crisscrossing England to uncover unpublished journals, diaries, and photographs, archaeologist and writer P. J. Capelotti details Leigh Smith's five major Arctic expeditions and places them within the context of the great polar explorations in the nineteenth century.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

P. J. Capelotti is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Penn State University, Abington College. He is the author of more than a dozen books.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Calgary Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1552387054
• ISBN 13: 9781552387054
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 269