Author: Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
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Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
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The Voyage of Captain Bellingshausen to the Antarctic Seas, 1819-1821
Author: Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
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Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
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Category : Antarctica
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The Voyage of Captain Bellingshausen to the Antarctic Seas 1819-1821
Author: Thaddeus Bellingshausen
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Languages : en
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Languages : en
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The voyage of Captain Bellingshausen to the Antarctic Seas, 1819-1821
Author: Frank Debenham
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Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Category : Antarctica
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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The Voyage of Captain Bellingshausen to the Antarctic Seas, 1819-1821
Author: Frank Debenham
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ISBN: 9781409424888
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Various translators, especially Edward Bullough and N. Volkov. The pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 92) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1945.
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ISBN: 9781409424888
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Various translators, especially Edward Bullough and N. Volkov. The pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 92) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1945.
The Voyage of Captain Bellingshausen to the Antarctic Seas
Author: Thaddeus Bellingshausen
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Languages : en
Pages : 7
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Languages : en
Pages : 7
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Antarctica
Author: David Day
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199861463
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 625
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Since the first sailing ships spied the Antarctic coastline in 1820, the frozen continent has captured the world's imagination. David Day's brilliant biography of Antarctica describes in fascinating detail every aspect of this vast land's history--two centuries of exploration, scientific investigation, and contentious geopolitics. Drawing from archives from around the world, Day provides a sweeping, large-scale history of Antarctica. Focusing on the dynamic personalities drawn to this unconquered land, the book offers an engaging collective biography of explorers and scientists battling the elements in the most hostile place on earth. We see intrepid sea captains picking their way past icebergs and pushing to the edge of the shifting pack ice, sanguinary sealers and whalers drawn south to exploit "the Penguin El Dorado," famed nineteenth-century explorers like Scott and Amundson in their highly publicized race to the South Pole, and aviators like Clarence Ellsworth and Richard Byrd, flying over great stretches of undiscovered land. Yet Antarctica is also the story of nations seeking to incorporate the Antarctic into their national narratives and to claim its frozen wastes as their own. As Day shows, in a place as remote as Antarctica, claiming land was not just about seeing a place for the first time, or raising a flag over it; it was about mapping and naming and, more generally, knowing its geographic and natural features. And ultimately, after a little-known decision by FDR to colonize Antarctica, claiming territory meant establishing full-time bases on the White Continent. The end of the Second World War would see one last scramble for polar territory, but the onset of the International Geophysical Year in 1957 would launch a cooperative effort to establish scientific bases across the continent. And with the Antarctic Treaty, science was in the ascendant, and cooperation rather than competition was the new watchword on the ice. Tracing history from the first sighting of land up to the present day, Antarctica is a fascinating exploration of this deeply alluring land and man's struggle to claim it.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199861463
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
Since the first sailing ships spied the Antarctic coastline in 1820, the frozen continent has captured the world's imagination. David Day's brilliant biography of Antarctica describes in fascinating detail every aspect of this vast land's history--two centuries of exploration, scientific investigation, and contentious geopolitics. Drawing from archives from around the world, Day provides a sweeping, large-scale history of Antarctica. Focusing on the dynamic personalities drawn to this unconquered land, the book offers an engaging collective biography of explorers and scientists battling the elements in the most hostile place on earth. We see intrepid sea captains picking their way past icebergs and pushing to the edge of the shifting pack ice, sanguinary sealers and whalers drawn south to exploit "the Penguin El Dorado," famed nineteenth-century explorers like Scott and Amundson in their highly publicized race to the South Pole, and aviators like Clarence Ellsworth and Richard Byrd, flying over great stretches of undiscovered land. Yet Antarctica is also the story of nations seeking to incorporate the Antarctic into their national narratives and to claim its frozen wastes as their own. As Day shows, in a place as remote as Antarctica, claiming land was not just about seeing a place for the first time, or raising a flag over it; it was about mapping and naming and, more generally, knowing its geographic and natural features. And ultimately, after a little-known decision by FDR to colonize Antarctica, claiming territory meant establishing full-time bases on the White Continent. The end of the Second World War would see one last scramble for polar territory, but the onset of the International Geophysical Year in 1957 would launch a cooperative effort to establish scientific bases across the continent. And with the Antarctic Treaty, science was in the ascendant, and cooperation rather than competition was the new watchword on the ice. Tracing history from the first sighting of land up to the present day, Antarctica is a fascinating exploration of this deeply alluring land and man's struggle to claim it.
The Voyage of Captain Bellingshausen to the Antarctic Seas
Author: Fabian G. Bellingshausen
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Languages : en
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The Voyage of Captain Bellingshausen to the Antarctic Seas, 1819-1821
Author: Frank Debenham
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351539582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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Follows on with continuous main pagination from Second Series 91. An additional section entitled 'Short notes on the colonies of New South Wales' is included. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1945. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the map which was included in a pocket at the end of the first edition of the work.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351539582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Follows on with continuous main pagination from Second Series 91. An additional section entitled 'Short notes on the colonies of New South Wales' is included. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1945. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the map which was included in a pocket at the end of the first edition of the work.
Encyclopedia of the Antarctic
Author: Beau Riffenburgh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415970245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415970245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
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The Voyage of Captain Bellingshausen to the Antarctic Seas 1819-1821
Author: Thaddeus Bellingshausen
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Languages : en
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Languages : en
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