Author: Ray Edinger
Publisher: Berkley Trade
ISBN: 9780425196045
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Featuring rare photos of 19th-century engravings and lithographs, "Fury Beach" is the true story of Arctic exploration and life among the Inuits.
Fury Beach
Author: Ray Edinger
Publisher: Berkley Trade
ISBN: 9780425196045
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Featuring rare photos of 19th-century engravings and lithographs, "Fury Beach" is the true story of Arctic exploration and life among the Inuits.
Publisher: Berkley Trade
ISBN: 9780425196045
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Featuring rare photos of 19th-century engravings and lithographs, "Fury Beach" is the true story of Arctic exploration and life among the Inuits.
Manual of the Natural History, Geology, and Physics of Greenland and the Neighbouring Regions
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385257476
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385257476
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Manual of the Natural History, Geology and Physics of Greenland and the Neighbouring Regions; Prepared for the Use of the Arctic Expedition of 1875, Under the Direction of the Arctic Committee of the Royal Society, and Edited by ... T. R. Jones, ... Together with Instructions Suggested by the Arctic Committee, ... for the Use of the Expedition, Etc
Author: Thomas Rupert JONES
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Across the Top of the World
Author: James Delgado
Publisher: D & M Publishers
ISBN: 1926706536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The centuries-long quest for the fabled Northwest Passage rivals the story of Antarctic exploration for heroism, drama, and tragedy. Expedition after expedition set off in search of a sea route connecting Europe with Asia's riches; each expedition suffered extreme hardship and ended in defeat, until Roald Amundsen finally succeeded in 1903-06. Across the Top of the World brings this incredible saga to life through exhaustive research, grim firsthand accounts, and hundreds of dramatic images. Paintings, engravings, and photos of the intrepid men and their ships, as well as of relics and archaeological sites, provide a poignant and compelling link with the past, while landscapes and seascapes of the harsh yet beautiful Arctic illustrate the challenges that faced explorers. Covering all the major expeditions in detail, and written with passion and authority, this book is both a scholarly reference and an eminently readable history of Arctic exploration.
Publisher: D & M Publishers
ISBN: 1926706536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The centuries-long quest for the fabled Northwest Passage rivals the story of Antarctic exploration for heroism, drama, and tragedy. Expedition after expedition set off in search of a sea route connecting Europe with Asia's riches; each expedition suffered extreme hardship and ended in defeat, until Roald Amundsen finally succeeded in 1903-06. Across the Top of the World brings this incredible saga to life through exhaustive research, grim firsthand accounts, and hundreds of dramatic images. Paintings, engravings, and photos of the intrepid men and their ships, as well as of relics and archaeological sites, provide a poignant and compelling link with the past, while landscapes and seascapes of the harsh yet beautiful Arctic illustrate the challenges that faced explorers. Covering all the major expeditions in detail, and written with passion and authority, this book is both a scholarly reference and an eminently readable history of Arctic exploration.
Manual of the Natural History, Geology, and Physics of Greenland and the Neighbouring Regions
Author: T. Rupert Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108071910
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 901
Book Description
Prepared for the British Arctic Expedition of the same year, this 1875 scientific manual includes instructions on making important observations.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108071910
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 901
Book Description
Prepared for the British Arctic Expedition of the same year, this 1875 scientific manual includes instructions on making important observations.
Manual of the Natural History, Geology, and Physics of Greenland and the Neighbouring Regions
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain). Arctic Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geophysics
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geophysics
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Unravelling the Franklin Mystery
Author: David C. Woodman
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773509368
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
David Woodman's reconstruction of the mysterious events surrounding the disappearance of two British exploration vessels in 1845, under the command of Sir John Franklin, challenges standard interpretations and promises to replace them. Among the many who have tried to discover the truth behind the Franklin disaster, Woodman recognizes the profound importance of the Inuit testimony and analyzes it in depth. He concludes from his investigations that the Inuit probably did visit Franklin's ships while the crew was still on board and that there were some Inuit who actually saw the sinking of one of the ships. He maintains that fewer than ten bodies were found at Starvation Cove and that the last survivors left the cove in 1851, three years after the standard account assumes them to be dead. Woodman also disputes the conclusion of Owen Beattie and John Geiger's book Frozen in Time that lead-poisoning was a major contributing cause of the disaster.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773509368
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
David Woodman's reconstruction of the mysterious events surrounding the disappearance of two British exploration vessels in 1845, under the command of Sir John Franklin, challenges standard interpretations and promises to replace them. Among the many who have tried to discover the truth behind the Franklin disaster, Woodman recognizes the profound importance of the Inuit testimony and analyzes it in depth. He concludes from his investigations that the Inuit probably did visit Franklin's ships while the crew was still on board and that there were some Inuit who actually saw the sinking of one of the ships. He maintains that fewer than ten bodies were found at Starvation Cove and that the last survivors left the cove in 1851, three years after the standard account assumes them to be dead. Woodman also disputes the conclusion of Owen Beattie and John Geiger's book Frozen in Time that lead-poisoning was a major contributing cause of the disaster.
The North-West Passage
Author: John Brown
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382336510
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1858. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382336510
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1858. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions During the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833
Author: Sir John Ross
Publisher: London : A.W. Webster
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Publisher: London : A.W. Webster
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Sir John Franklin’s Erebus and Terror Expedition
Author: Gillian Hutchinson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 147294870X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin set out on a voyage to find the North-West Passage – the sea route linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. The expedition was expected to complete its mission within three years and return home in triumph but the two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and the 129 men aboard them disappeared in the Arctic. The last Europeans to see them alive were the crews of two whaling ships in Baffin Bay in July 1845, just before they entered the labyrinth of the Arctic Archipelago. The loss of this British hero and his crew, and the many rescue expeditions and searches that followed, captured the public imagination, but the mystery surrounding the expedition's fate only deepened as more clues were found. How did Franklin's final expedition end in tragedy? What happened to the crew? The thrilling discoveries in the Arctic of the wrecks of Erebus in 2014 and Terror in 2016 have brought the events of 170 years ago into sharp focus and excited new interest in the Franklin expedition. This richly illustrated book is an essential guide to this story of heroism, endurance, tragedy and dark desperation.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 147294870X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin set out on a voyage to find the North-West Passage – the sea route linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. The expedition was expected to complete its mission within three years and return home in triumph but the two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and the 129 men aboard them disappeared in the Arctic. The last Europeans to see them alive were the crews of two whaling ships in Baffin Bay in July 1845, just before they entered the labyrinth of the Arctic Archipelago. The loss of this British hero and his crew, and the many rescue expeditions and searches that followed, captured the public imagination, but the mystery surrounding the expedition's fate only deepened as more clues were found. How did Franklin's final expedition end in tragedy? What happened to the crew? The thrilling discoveries in the Arctic of the wrecks of Erebus in 2014 and Terror in 2016 have brought the events of 170 years ago into sharp focus and excited new interest in the Franklin expedition. This richly illustrated book is an essential guide to this story of heroism, endurance, tragedy and dark desperation.