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A Diary Kept While With The Peary Arctic Expedition Of 1896
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Author : Benjamin Hoppin
language : en
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Release Date : 1897
A Diary Kept While With The Peary Arctic Expedition Of 1896 written by Benjamin Hoppin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Arctic regions categories.
Hoppkins was a mineralogist who accompanied Peary on his 1896 Arctic expedition, the aim of which was to search for minerals, fossils, a previously seen meteorite, and to visit Greenland. The ship used on the voyage was the Hope, sailing out of St. John's under Commander Peary and Captain John Bartlett of Brigus, with several experts from different fields and a crew also comprised mainly of Newfoundlanders.
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Author : B. Hoppin
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Release Date : 2015-08-04
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Excerpt from A Diary Kept While With the Peary Arctic Expedition of 1896 The baggage of the party from Cornell University was in Sydney, stored in a building on Harrington's wharf, and the party itself came soon afterwards. Professor Tarr was in charge, Professor Gill, assistant, and students Mr. Watson, Mr. Kindle, Mr. Martin and Mr. Bonesteel. The School of Technology of Boston was represented by Professor Alfred Burton, Prof. George Barton and Mr. Russell W. Porter; besides these were Mr. Phillips, of Harvard University, and Mr. Dodge of New Hampshire. The chief officers of the Expedition were Lieut. R. E. Peary, U. S. N. commanding, and Captain John Bartlett, of Brigus, Newfoundland, in command of the steamer Hope. Mr. Operti, an artist of New York, also accompanied the Expedition, and Mr. M. A. Hansen, of the American Museum of Natural History, Central Park, New York, a colored gentleman of African connections who had been to the Arctic Regions twice before with Lieut. Peary, and Mr. Hugh J. Lee of, Meriden, Ct., who had been with Lieut. Peary before. From Baddeck, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, came Mr. Alexander H. Sutherland; Mr. George Hollifield, of Halifax; and Mr. Benjamin Hoppin, of New Haven, Conn. The Expedition had interest taken in it by the American Museum, Museum of Natural History, New York, Central Park, 77th St. and 8th avenue, and was aided by Mr. Morris K. Jessup, President of the Museum. The elections had just passed in Canada, the parties had met in an interesting manner. The Sydney time could be found at Sydney. There was a heavy rain on one of the first days of the week, but fair weather had set in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Author : B. Hoppin
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Release Date : 1900
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Author : Benjamin Hoppin
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Ab Bookman S Weekly
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Release Date : 1989-05
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Bibliography Of American Imprints To 1901 Date Index
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Release Date : 1993
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The North Pole Its Discovery In 1909 Under The Auspices Of The Peary Arctic Club
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Author : Robert Edwin Peary
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 1986
The North Pole Its Discovery In 1909 Under The Auspices Of The Peary Arctic Club written by Robert Edwin Peary and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with History categories.
It may not be inapt to liken the attainment of the North Pole to the winning of a game of chess, in which all the various moves leading to a favorable conclusion had been planned in advance, long before the actual game began. It was an old game for me—a game which I had been playing for twenty-three years, with varying fortunes. Always, it is true, I had been beaten, but with every defeat came fresh knowledge of the game, its intricacies, its difficulties, its subtleties, and with every fresh attempt success came a trifle nearer; what had before appeared either impossible, or, at the best, extremely dubious, began to take on an aspect of possibility, and, at last, even of probability. Every defeat was analyzed as to its causes in all their bearings, until it became possible to believe that those causes could in future be guarded against and that, with a fair amount of good fortune, the losing game of nearly a quarter of a century could be turned into one final, complete success. It is true that with this conclusion many well informed and intelligent persons saw fit to differ. But many others shared my views and gave without stint their sympathy and their help, and now, in the end, one of my greatest unalloyed pleasures is to know that their confidence, subjected as it was to many trials, was not misplaced, that their trust, their belief in me and in the mission to which the best years of my life have been given, have been abundantly justified. But while it is true that so far as plan and method are concerned the discovery of the North Pole may fairly be likened to a game of chess, there is, of course, this obvious difference: in chess, brains are matched against brains. In the quest of the Pole it was a struggle of human brains and persistence against the blind, brute forces of the elements of primeval matter, acting often under laws and impulses almost unknown or but little understood by us, and thus many times seemingly capricious, freaky, not to be foretold with any degree of certainty. For this reason, while it was possible to plan, before the hour of sailing from New York, the principal moves of the attack upon the frozen North, it was not possible to anticipate all of the moves of the adversary. Had this been possible, my expedition of 1905-1906, which established the then "farthest north" record of 87° 6´, would have reached the Pole. But everybody familiar with the records of that expedition knows that its complete success was frustrated by one of those unforeseen moves of our great adversary—in that a season of unusually violent and continued winds disrupted the polar pack, separating me from my supporting parties, with insufficient supplies, so that, when almost within striking distance of the goal, it was necessary to turn back because of the imminent peril of starvation. When victory seemed at last almost within reach, I was blocked by a move which could not possibly have been foreseen, and which, when I encountered it, I was helpless to meet. And, as is well known, I and those with me were not only checkmated but very nearly lost our lives as well. But all that is now as a tale that is told. This time it is a different and perhaps a more inspiring story, though the records of gallant defeat are not without their inspiration. And the point which it seems fit to make in the beginning is that success crowned the efforts of years because strength came from repeated defeats, wisdom from earlier error, experience from inexperience, and determination from them all.
The Spectral Arctic
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Author : Shane McCorristine
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2018-05-01
The Spectral Arctic written by Shane McCorristine and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-01 with History categories.
Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships.
The Coldest Coast
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Author : P. J. Capelotti
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-06-15
The Coldest Coast written by P. J. Capelotti and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-15 with History categories.
This book describes the 1873 voyage of the British explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith, based on the diaries and photographs of Lieutenant Herbert C. Chermside, who joined the expedition of the seas around Svalbard. Chermside’s photographs, long believed lost, have recently been uncovered in Sweden and are being curated there by the Grenna Museum. The three unpublished diaries of Herbert Chermside were lent to the Scott Polar Research Institute in 1939 by Mrs. Benjamin Leigh Smith. For the first time, Chermside’s diaries are published in their entirety, with the original photographs shown alongside modern images of the same locations. This includes the first photographic record of the north coast of Svalbard, images that are today being used as comparative data for the study of climate change in the archipelago. The diaries have been fully transcribed and edited. Introductory chapters are included, written by specialists in the history of exploration, history of science, and the history of photography from Penn State University, the University of Gothenburg, and UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, as well as contributors from the UK and Germany. This volume is published in association with Grenna Museum, which will present Chermside’s photographs in a 2022 exhibit on Leigh Smith and A.E. Nordenskiold.
The News At The Ends Of The Earth
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Author : Hester Blum
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-04
The News At The Ends Of The Earth written by Hester Blum and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-04 with Social Science categories.
From Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 search for the Northwest Passage to early twentieth-century sprints to the South Pole, polar expeditions produced an extravagant archive of documents that are as varied as they are engaging. As the polar ice sheets melt, fragments of this archive are newly emergent. In The News at the Ends of the Earth Hester Blum examines the rich, offbeat collection of printed ephemera created by polar explorers. Ranging from ship newspapers and messages left in bottles to menus and playbills, polar writing reveals the seamen wrestling with questions of time, space, community, and the environment. Whether chronicling weather patterns or satirically reporting on penguin mischief, this writing provided expedition members with a set of practices to help them survive the perpetual darkness and harshness of polar winters. The extreme climates these explorers experienced is continuous with climate change today. Polar exploration writing, Blum contends, offers strategies for confronting and reckoning with the extreme environment of the present.