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Exploring Polar Frontiers

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Author : William James Mills
language : en
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2003-12-11

Exploring Polar Frontiers written by William James Mills and has been published by ABC-CLIO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-11 with History categories.

Covers the entire history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration, from the voyage of Pytheas ca. 325 B.C. to the present, in one convenient, comprehensive reference resource. Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia is the only reference work that provides a comprehensive history of polar exploration from the ancient period through the present day. The author is a noted polar scholar and offers dramatic accounts of all major explorers and their expeditions, together with separate exploration histories for specific islands, regions, and uncharted waters. He presents a wealth of fascinating information under a variety of subject entries including methods of transport, myths, achievements, and record-breaking activities. By approaching polar exploration biographically, geographically, and topically, Mills reveals a number of intriguing connections between the various explorers, their patrons and times, and the process of discovery in all areas of the polar regions. Furthermore, he provides the reader with a clear understanding of the intellectual climate as well as the dominant social, economic, and political forces surrounding each expedition. Readers will learn why the journeys were undertaken, not just where, when, and how. 511 A-Z biographical, geographical, and subject entries on polar exploration such as dogs, man-hauling, Elephant Island, South Georgia, and major explorers such as Sir John Franklin, Fridtjof Nansen, and Richard Byrd Extensive collection of photographs, many taken by expedition participants Vivid illustrations, including woodcuts and drawings 20 maps detailing Arctic and Antarctic regions Chronology of expeditions beginning with the voyage of Pytheas in 325 B.C. through the present

Exploring Polar Frontiers 2 Volumes

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Author : William James Mills
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2003-12-11

Exploring Polar Frontiers 2 Volumes written by William James Mills and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-11 with Social Science categories.

Covers the entire history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration, from the voyage of Pytheas ca. 325 B.C. to the present, in one convenient, comprehensive reference resource. Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia is the only reference work that provides a comprehensive history of polar exploration from the ancient period through the present day. The author is a noted polar scholar and offers dramatic accounts of all major explorers and their expeditions, together with separate exploration histories for specific islands, regions, and uncharted waters. He presents a wealth of fascinating information under a variety of subject entries including methods of transport, myths, achievements, and record-breaking activities. By approaching polar exploration biographically, geographically, and topically, Mills reveals a number of intriguing connections between the various explorers, their patrons and times, and the process of discovery in all areas of the polar regions. Furthermore, he provides the reader with a clear understanding of the intellectual climate as well as the dominant social, economic, and political forces surrounding each expedition. Readers will learn why the journeys were undertaken, not just where, when, and how.

Exploring Polar Frontiers

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Author : William J. Mills
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

Exploring Polar Frontiers written by William J. Mills and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.

Exploring Polar Frontiers

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Author : William J. Mills
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

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Exploring Polar Frontiers

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Author : William James Mills
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

Exploring Polar Frontiers written by William James Mills and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Explorers categories.

Exploring Polar Frontiers A L

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Author : William James Mills
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

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The European Antarctic

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Author : P. Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-12-19

The European Antarctic written by P. Roberts and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-19 with History categories.

This is the first transnational study of British, Norwegian, and Swedish engagement with the Antarctic. Rather than charting how Europeans unveiled the Antarctic, it uses the history of Antarctic activity as a window into the political and cultural worlds of twentieth-century Britain and Scandinavia.

History Of Alaska Volume I

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Author : Jonathan M. Nielson, Ph.D.
language : en
Publisher: Academica Press
Release Date : 2018-02-01

History Of Alaska Volume I written by Jonathan M. Nielson, Ph.D. and has been published by Academica Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-01 with History categories.

As a unique, distant geographical region of the United States, Alaska has evolved from military insignificance to high strategic priority in the 142 years since its purchase from Russia in 1867. The reasons for this dramatic shift derive from a correlation of geography, foreign policy, domestic politics, and military technology. Historically the role of the armed forces in Alaska has been large and diverse. Alaska was one of the two principal territorial purchases made by the United States between 1803 and 1867 adding nearly 1.5 million square miles to America’s national domain. Smaller by the size of Texas than Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase, Alaska, unlike all of the territories and states carved out of the former, languished in obscurity and isolation, and was administered as a colonial dependency by the military and other branches of the federal government, its official ‘territorial status’ and government notwithstanding. While sharing many common aspects of frontier settlement and Western history with territories such as Montana, the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Colorado, Alaska presented special challenges peculiar to a non-contiguous arctic and sub-Arctic environment, separated from the United States by a foreign power. Indeed, only the defeated South under Reconstruction experienced the same degree of military occupation and martial law. Alaska also has the unique distinction in the American experience of belonging to Imperial Russia before it became of interest to American expansionists. Still others found Alaska tempting and pursued their own designs North of '53. The Spanish, British, Canadians, and even the French plied Alaska’s waters and made their claims to Alyeska- the Great Land. And it is with these clashing imperial ambitions that this three-volume history begins.

In Northern Mists Volume 1 Of 2 Arctic Exploration In Early Times

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Author : Nansen Fridtjof
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2016-06-23

In Northern Mists Volume 1 Of 2 Arctic Exploration In Early Times written by Nansen Fridtjof and has been published by Hardpress Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-23 with categories.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

A Frozen Field Of Dreams Science Strategy And The Antarctic In Norway Sweden And The British Empire 1912 1952

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Author : Peder William Chellew Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University
Release Date : 2010

A Frozen Field Of Dreams Science Strategy And The Antarctic In Norway Sweden And The British Empire 1912 1952 written by Peder William Chellew Roberts and has been published by Stanford University this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.

The dissertation examines how actors in Norway, Sweden, and the British Empire conceived the Antarctic as a space for science during the years 1912 to 1952. Instead of tracing a narrative of enlightenment, how science became the dominant form of activity in the Antarctic, I examine a series of episodes with particular attention to why particular kinds of science held sway within specific political, cultural, and economic contexts. Concerned more with how Antarctic science was planned and justified than how it was executed in the field, the project draws upon recent scholarship in geography and geopolitics, as well as the history of exploration. The six case studies involve an aborted Anglo-Swedish Antarctic expedition in 1912; Britain's interwar Antarctic whaling research program; debates among whaling magnates and their associates over the relationship between Antarctic science and whaling in interwar Norway; the culture of polar exploration that emerged at Cambridge (and to some extent Oxford) between the world wars; the approach to polar exploration and quantitative glaciology pioneered by the Swedish geographer Hans Ahlmann; and the complicated history of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949-52). I conclude with an epilogue arguing that the rise of international science in the Antarctic during the 1950s reflected the geopolitical dynamics of the Cold War, rather than the triumph of science over politics.