Author: Edwin Swift Balch
Publisher: Philadelphia : Campion
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Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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An attempt to present the facts and reasons for the author's conviction that Dr. Cook was the first to reach the North Pole. (AB 999).
Author: Edwin Swift Balch
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333533038
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Excerpt from The North Pole and Bradley Land Three years after Mr. Harris had broached his theory about lands in the unknown Arctic, Dr. Fridtjof Nansen2 published a paper expounding the theory, that the then unknown Arctic is nearly all, if not all, ocean. Dr. Nansen based his argument largely on the movements of the sea currents and the drift of the ice, on sound ings on the continental shelf of Siberia, on the nature of the ice in different parts of the Arctic ocean, on the driftwood found on the various Arctic coasts, on the temperatures of the ocean, on the tides, on meteorology, on migratory birds, and on Eskimo legends. He published with his article a map which delineates the Central Arctic wholly as an ocean. These two theories, propounded by two scientific men like Harris and Nansen, are of more than pass ing interest. The region they theorized about was. 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.
Author: St. Louis Public Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Author: St. Louis Public Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Author: Edwin Swift 1856 Balch
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ISBN: 9781371556785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Author: Edwin Swift Balch
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781355876700
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Author: Edwin Swift 1856-1927 Balch
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ISBN: 9781371555511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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