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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Mackintosh , Aeneas ( 1879–1916 ) For sheer unremitting slog without hope of new discovery , the Ross Sea party of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial TransAntarctic Expedition cannot be equaled . Overshadowed by the epic adventure of the ...
Although the front of the Ross Ice Shelf had been surveyed on several occasions , and sledging journeys made across the west and east sides of the shelf to the mountains by parties from Scott and Amundsen onward , the central area of ...
On their way to the Gaussberg , Jones's party had discovered in the Haswell Islands a large colony of emperor penguins , one of very few then known . By 21 January 1913 , they had rejoined the others at West Base , where they waited ...
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Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia, Volum 1 William James Mills Utdragsvisning - 2003 |