A Voyage Of Discovery Towards The North Pole Performed In His Majestys Ships Dorothea And Trent Under The Command Of Captain David Buchan 1818
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Author | : Frederick William Beechey |
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Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1843 |
Genre | : Arctic regions |
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Account of expedition in search of North Pole led by D. Buchan in 1818. Sailed to Svalbard, where beset, and put into harbour. Traced pack ice edge towards Greenland. Also includes chronology of early attempts to reach the Pacific by way of the Pole.
Author | : Frederick William Beechey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1843 |
Genre | : Arctic regions |
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Author | : F. W. Beechey |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2017-10-13 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780266278054 |
Excerpt from A Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole Performed in His Majesty's Ships Dorothea and Trent, Under the Command of Captain David Buchan, 1818: To Which Is Added, a Summary of All the Early Attempts to Reach the Pacific by Way of the Pole In submitting to the public the Voyage of Captain Buchan towards the North Pole, I am aware that much of the interest which attached to that expedition has now subsided; and I should not have given it my attention at this late period, had it not been from a sense of duty which, as one of the individuals employed upon the service in question, I owe to the public, who naturally expect from the officers engaged in any national undertaking some account of the manner in which that service has been performed. 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 | : Frédéric Regard |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317321510 |
Focusing on nineteenth-century attempts to locate the northwest passage, the essays in this volume present this quest as a central element of British culture.
Author | : Edward J. Cowan |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2023-09-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1639362711 |
In the tradition of Arthur Herman’s How the Scots Invented the Modern World comes a narrative that charts the remarkable—yet often overlooked or misidentified—Scottish contribution to Arctic exploration The search for the Northwest Passage is filled with stories of tragedy, adventure, courage, and endurance. It was one of the great maritime challenges of the era. It was not until the 1850’s that the first one-way partial transit of the passage was made. Previous attempts had all failed, and some, like the ill-fated attempted by Sir John Franklin in 1845 ended in tragedy with the loss of the entire expedition, which was comprised of two ships and 129 men. Northern Lights reveals Scotland’s previously unsung role in the remarkable history of Arctic exploration. There was the intrepid John Ross, an eccentric hell-raiser from Stranraer and a veteran of three Arctic expeditions; his nephew, James Clark Ross, the most experienced explorer of his generation and discoverer of the Magnetic North Pole; Dr. John Richardson of Dumfries, who became an accidental cannibal and deliberate executionaer of a murderer as well as an engaging natural historian; and Orcadian John Rae, the man who first discovered evidence of Sir John Franklin and his crew’s demise. Northern Lights also pays tribute and reveals other overlooked stories in this fascinating era of history: the Scotch Irish, the whalers, and especially the Inuit, whose unparalleled knowledge of the Arctic environment was often indispensible. For anyone fascinated by Scottish history or hungry for tales of Arctic adventure, Northern Lights is a vivid new addition to the rich tradition of polar narratives.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Auroras |
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Author | : Stephen Zorn |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2023-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476651140 |
The Franklin Northwest Passage Expedition of 1845 is perhaps the greatest disaster in the history of exploration--all 129 men vanished, as did the expedition's two ships, HMS Erebus and Terror. Over the next 150 years, searchers found bones, clothing and a variety of relics. Inuit narratives provided some of the details of what happened to the frozen, starving sailors after they deserted their ice-locked ships in 1848. Then, in 2014 and 2016, Canadian researchers found the sunken wrecks, not far from the bleak, windswept King William Island in the Arctic. At last, the mystery of the Franklin Expedition would be solved. Or would it? This book pulls together the various searchers' discoveries; the many recent scientific studies that shed light on when, how and why the men died (and whether, in extremis, they ate each other); and illuminates what we know, and what we don't and may never know, about the fate of the expedition.
Author | : Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2021-05-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0822988054 |
Science in the Arctic changed dramatically over the course of the nineteenth century, when early, scattered attempts in the region to gather knowledge about all aspects of the natural world transitioned to a more unified Arctic science under the First International Polar Year in 1882. The IPY brought together researchers from multiple countries with the aim of undertaking systematic and coordinated experiments and observations in the Arctic and Antarctic. Harsh conditions, intense isolation, and acute danger inevitably impacted the making and communicating of scientific knowledge. At the same time, changes in ideas about what it meant to be an authoritative observer of natural phenomena were linked to tensions in imperial ambitions, national identities, and international collaborations of the IPY. Through a focused study of travel narratives in the British, Danish, Canadian, and American contexts, Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund uncovers not only the transnational nature of Arctic exploration, but also how the publication and reception of literature about it shaped an extreme environment, its explorers, and their scientific practices. She reveals how, far beyond the metropole—in the vast area we understand today as the North American and Greenlandic Arctic—explorations and the narratives that followed ultimately influenced the production of field science in the nineteenth century.
Author | : Frederick William Beechey |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2024-03-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385109914 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Author | : Smithsonian Institution |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Solar system |
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