The Probability Of Reaching The North Pole Discussed
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The Probability Of Reaching The North Pole Discussed
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Author : Daines Barrington
language : en
Publisher: Ye Galleon Press
Release Date : 1987-01-01
The Probability Of Reaching The North Pole Discussed written by Daines Barrington and has been published by Ye Galleon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-01-01 with History categories.
The Probability Of Reaching The North Pole Discussed
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Author : Daines Barrington
language : en
Publisher: London : Printed for C. Heydinger
Release Date : 1775
The Probability Of Reaching The North Pole Discussed written by Daines Barrington and has been published by London : Printed for C. Heydinger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1775 with Discoveries in geography categories.
The Probability Of Reaching The North Pole Discussed
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Author : Daines Barrington
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Release Date : 1775
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The Possibility Of Approaching The North Pole Asserted
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Author : Daines Barrington
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-04-17
The Possibility Of Approaching The North Pole Asserted written by Daines Barrington and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-17 with History categories.
Reissued in its 1818 second edition, these papers discuss Arctic exploration and evidence for the theorised open polar sea.
A Catalogue Of The Printed Books In The Library Of The Society Of Antiquaries Of London
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language : en
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Release Date : 1816
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The Journals Of Captain James Cook On His Voyages Of Discovery
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Author : J.C. Beaglehole
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
The Journals Of Captain James Cook On His Voyages Of Discovery written by J.C. Beaglehole and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with History categories.
Captain James Cook?s first two voyages of exploration, in 1768-71 and 1772-75, had drawn the modern map of the South Pacific Ocean and had opened the door on the discovery of Antarctica. These expeditions were the subject of Volumes I and II of Dr J.C. Beaglehole?s edition of Cook?s Journals. The third voyage, on which Cook sailed in 1776, was directed to the Northern Hemisphere. Its objective was the discovery of ?a Northern Passage by sea from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean? - the North-west Passage, sought since the 16th century, which would have transformed the pattern of world trade. The search was to take Cook into high latitudes where, as in the Antarctic, his skill in ice navigation was tested. Sailing north from Tahiti in 1778, Cook made the first recorded discovery of the Hawaiian Islands. On March 7 he sighted the Oregon coast in 44° N. The remarkable voyage which he made northward along the Canadian and Alaskan coasts and through Bering Strait to his farthest north in 70° nearly disproved the existence of a navigable passage towards the Atlantic and produced charts of impressive accuracy. Returning to Hawaii to refit, Cook met his death in a clash with the natives as tragic as it seems unnecessary. Dr Beaglehole discusses, with sympathy and insight, the tensions which led Cook, by then a tired man, into miscalculations alien to his own nature and habits. The volume and vitality of the records, both textual and graphic, for this voyage surpass those even for Cook?s second voyage. The surgeons William Anderson and David Samwell, both admirable observers, left journals which are also here printed in full for the first time. The documentation is completed, as in the previous volumes, by appendixes of documents and correspondence and by reproductions of original drawings and paintings mainly by John Webber, the artist of the expedition. In Dr Beaglehole?s words, ?no one can study attentively the records of Cook?s third, and last, v
Arctic Labyrinth
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Author : Glyn Williams
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2010-03
Arctic Labyrinth written by Glyn Williams and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03 with History categories.
The elusive dream of locating the Northwest Passage--an ocean route over the top of North America that promised a shortcut to the fabulous wealth of Asia--obsessed explorers for centuries. Until recently these channels were hopelessly choked by impassible ice. Voyagers faced unimaginable horrors--entire ships crushed, mass starvation, disabling frostbite, even cannibalism--in pursuit of a futile goal. Glyn Williams charts the entire sweep of this extraordinary history, from the tiny, woefully equipped vessels of the first Tudor expeditions to the twentieth-century ventures that finally opened the Passage.
The Arctic Whaling Journals Of William Scoresby The Younger 1789 1857
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Author : William Scoresby
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-01-26
The Arctic Whaling Journals Of William Scoresby The Younger 1789 1857 written by William Scoresby and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-26 with History categories.
This is the third and final volume in the set of William Scoresby's journals. It contains the unpublished accounts of his three voyages 1817, 1818 and 1820. During the years of the voyages in this volume Scoresby's life changed profoundly. An unsuccessful hunt for whales in 1817 led to a break with the Whitby shipowners, and command of the Fame in 1818 in partnership with his father. The partnership was a brief one, and at the end of 1818 Scoresby broke with his father and moved to Liverpool, finding new partners, completing the writing of An Account of the Arctic Regions and watching the construction of his new ship, the Baffin. Meanwhile he suffered a severe financial loss and made a profound religious commitment. After his first summer ashore for many years in 1819, he brought back to Liverpool in 1820 a 'full ship' of seventeen whales, despite being faced by mutineers in the crew who earlier had been involved in piracy in the Caribbean and, apparently, hoped to seize the Baffin 'and convey her and her valuable cargo to a foreign country'. In each of the journals, Scoresby wrote detailed descriptions of his landings: on Jan Mayen in 1817, western Spitsbergen in 1818, and the Langanes peninsula in northeast Iceland in 1820. The 1817 voyage, when Scoresby and others found the Greenland Sea relatively free of ice, involved him in the renewed British interest in arctic maritime exploration after the Napoleonic Wars. The Introduction to this volume contains a major reappraisal of Scoresby's role, especially in regard to his alleged mistreatment by John Barrow, Second Secretary of the Admiralty. The volume also contains an appendix by Fred M. Walker on the building of wooden whaleships such as the Baffin that were capable of routine ice navigation under sail as far north as 80°N, based on Scoresby's account, as Owners' Representative, at the beginning of the 1820 journal.
The Arctic Whaling Journals Of William Scoresby The Younger Volume I The Voyages Of 1811 1812 And 1813
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Author : William Scoresby
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-03-10
The Arctic Whaling Journals Of William Scoresby The Younger Volume I The Voyages Of 1811 1812 And 1813 written by William Scoresby and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-10 with History categories.
William Scoresby (1789-1857) made his first voyage in the whaler Resolution from Whitby to the Greenland Sea, west of Spitsbergen, in 1800. Three years later he was formally apprenticed to his father and another three years saw him promoted to chief officer. On 5 October 1810, his twenty-first birthday, ’the earliest at which, by reason of age, I could legally hold a command’, his father moved to Greenock and another ship, relinquishing the Resolution to his son. Another ten years would see the publication of what has been described as ’one of the most remarkable books in the English language’, his two-volume An Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery (1820). Even before he took command of the Resolution, two developments had occurred that, when combined with his seamanship and whaling skill, were to make that book ’the foundation stone of Arctic science’ and cause the journals of his annual voyages to be remarkable accounts in their own right. First, Scoresby had studied, during two brief winters at the University of Edinburgh. Teachers such as John Playfair and Robert Jameson had made him aware of the scientific importance of his arctic experience. Together with Sir Joseph Banks, the president of the Royal Society, they encouraged him to observe, experiment and record, and provided opportunities for his data to be published. Secondly, this encouragement, and the study habits he developed at Edinburgh, led Scoresby to expand the logs of his arctic voyages into lengthy journals that contained scientific records and social and religious comment as well as detailed descriptions of navigation and whaling.
North Pole
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Author : Michael Bravo
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2019-01-15
North Pole written by Michael Bravo and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Science categories.
The North Pole has long held surprising importance for many of the world’s cultures. Interweaving science and history, this book offers the first unified vision of how the North Pole has shaped everything from literature to the goals of political leaders—from Alexander the Great to neo-Hindu nationalists. Tracing the intersecting notions of poles, polarity, and the sacred from our most ancient civilizations to the present day, Michael Bravo explores how the idea of a North Pole has given rise to utopias, satires, fantasies, paradoxes, and nationalist ideologies across every era, from the Renaissance to the Third Reich. The Victorian conceit of the polar regions as a vast empty wilderness—a bastion of adventurous white males battling against the elements—is far from the only polar vision. Bravo paints a variety of alternative pictures: of a habitable Arctic crisscrossed by densely connected networks of Inuit trade and travel routes, a world rich in indigenous cultural meanings; of a sacred paradise or lost Eden among both Western and Eastern cultures, a vision that curiously (and conveniently) dovetailed with the imperial aspirations of Europe and the United States; and as the setting for tales not only of conquest and redemption, but also of failure and catastrophe. And as we face warming temperatures, melting ice, and rising seas, Bravo argues, only an understanding of the North Pole’s deeper history, of our conception of it as both a sacred and living place, can help humanity face its twenty-first-century predicament.
