A Short History Of Polar Exploration
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A Short History Of Polar Exploration
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Author : Nick Rennison
language : en
Publisher: Oldcastle Books
Release Date : 2013-11-19
A Short History Of Polar Exploration written by Nick Rennison and has been published by Oldcastle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-19 with History categories.
According to Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the men who went to Antarctica with Captain Scott, 'Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been devised. ' Despite this there has never been a shortage of volunteers willing to endure the bad times in pursuit of the glory that polar exploration sometimes brings. Nick Rennison's compelling book tells the memorable stories of the men and women who have risked their lives by entering the white wastelands of the Arctic and the Antarctic, from the compelling tales of Scott, Shacklet on and Amundsen, to lesser known heroes such as Fridtjof Nansen and Robert Peary. A Short History of Polar Exploration also looks at the hold that the polar regions have often had on the imaginations of artists and writers in the last two hundred years examining the pain tings, films and literature that they have inspired.
A History Of Polar Exploration
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Author : David Mountfield
language : en
Publisher: London : Hamlyn
Release Date : 1974
A History Of Polar Exploration written by David Mountfield and has been published by London : Hamlyn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Antarctica categories.
To The Ends Of The Earth
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Author : Richard Sale
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 2002
To The Ends Of The Earth written by Richard Sale and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Polar regions categories.
This text provides an insight into the early history of the Polar regions, and tells the stories of Man's first exploration of the Arctic and Antarctic, and subsequent expeditions. The history of individual Polar expeditions has been told many times, but usually only as personal accounts of individual adventures. This misses the overall context of polar exploration - why the British depended on ponies, or plant-eating animals (on the only continent where plants don't grow), why Franklin's men perished when the local Eskimos were eking out an existence around them (and reporting Franklin's demise), and why the Scandinavians were always better than anybody else.The first map of Antarctica was produced in 1556 - the Vikings visited the Arctic 1,000 years before. In 2001, the US Base at the South Pole is manned 365 days a year. The book tells the whole story of how the two last wildernesses, at either end of the world, were discovered, conquered and tamed.
Polar Exploration
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Author : William Speirs Bruce
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2020-12-08
Polar Exploration written by William Speirs Bruce and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-08 with History categories.
Journey to the icy realms of the polar regions with "Polar Exploration" by William Speirs Bruce. Published in the 1910s, this book offers a comprehensive account of various expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. Bruce, a renowned explorer himself, provides detailed insights into the challenges, discoveries, and scientific advancements made during these daring voyages. It's a must-read for those fascinated by exploration, history, and the natural world.
Brief History Of Polar Exploration Since The Introduction Of Flying
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Author : Wolfgang Louis Gottfried Joerg
language : en
Publisher: New York, N.Y.: American Geographical Society
Release Date : 1930
Brief History Of Polar Exploration Since The Introduction Of Flying written by Wolfgang Louis Gottfried Joerg and has been published by New York, N.Y.: American Geographical Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with Aeronautics categories.
A History Of Polar Exploration
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Author : Laurence Kirwan
language : en
Publisher: Harmondsworth, [England] : Penguin Book
Release Date : 1960
A History Of Polar Exploration written by Laurence Kirwan and has been published by Harmondsworth, [England] : Penguin Book this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Antarctica categories.
Revised edition of The white road. London, 1959.
A History Of Polar Exploration And Adventure
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Author : Helen Putnam Van Sicklen
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 2011-08-01
A History Of Polar Exploration And Adventure written by Helen Putnam Van Sicklen and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-01 with History categories.
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.
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 Great White North
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Author : Helen Saunders Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1910
The Great White North written by Helen Saunders Wright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910 with Arctic regions categories.
History of arctic exploration from earliest times to 1909 is derived from accounts from the expeditions.
Thirty Years In The Arctic Regions
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Author : Sir John Franklin
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-11-21
Thirty Years In The Arctic Regions written by Sir John Franklin and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-21 with History categories.
In an age when polar exploration was akin to space exploration today, Sir John Franklin's journeys of discovery captured the popular imagination. Originally published in 1859, Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions is Franklin's own record of his two overland expeditions, begun in 1816 and 1825, which took him to what is now the Northwest Territory of Canada.But it was Franklin's final expedition, to discover the sea route connecting the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans, that cemented his place in the history of Arctic exploration. Franklin and his crew set out in two ships, the Erebus and the Terror. Their search for the Northwest Passage was doomed, and the fate of Franklin and his 129-man crew remained a mystery for many years, despite the fact that more than thirty missions were sent to look for survivors or remains. The bodies of several of its members were eventually found. By 2016, both ships had been discovered, bringing an end to a 168-year-old Arctic mystery.This book includes Franklin's record of the hardship and suffering his men endured from his earlier expeditions, during which he and his crew charted 1,700 miles of Artic coastline. Also, it includes Franklin's detailed descriptions of a region that in the 19th century must have seemed as alien as a lunar landscape. The book's final entries include a letter from Franklin dated July 12, 1845—the last communication from the expedition received in England—and letters sent by the leaders of subsequent search expeditions. Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions describes an era when British exploration of the Far North was at its peak, in the words of one its most prominent and ill-fated explorers.