Exploring Polar Frontiers: M-ZCovers the entire history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration, from the voyage of Pytheas ca. 325 B.C. to the present, in one convenient, comprehensive reference resource.
By approaching polar exploration biographically, geographically, and topically, Mills reveals a number of intriguing connections between the various explorers, their patrons and times, and the process of discovery in all areas of the polar regions. Furthermore, he provides the reader with a clear understanding of the intellectual climate as well as the dominant social, economic, and political forces surrounding each expedition. Readers will learn why the journeys were undertaken, not just where, when, and how.
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Date Explorer ( s ) Achievement 1872-1874 Payer and Weyprecht Northwest Passage 1878-1880 A. E. Nordenskiöld First transit Belief in the existence of a circular world ocean 1912-1913 Brusilov 1914-1915 extending to the north and south ...
1 The Discovery of the Northwest Table 19 Northwest Passage , Eighteenth - century Expeditions Passage , 1815-1859 Date Explorer ( s ) Route Chief Sponsor ( s ) The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars halted explo1719–1721 James ...
to abandon his ship , he completed the Table 21 Northwest Passage Firsts first crossing of the Northwest Passage Date Explorer ( s ) / Nessel ( s ) Achievement across the ice to claim the parliamen1845–1848 Franklin First discovery of a ...
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Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia, Volum 1 William James Mills Utdragsvisning - 2003 |