Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia [2 Volumes]Bloomsbury Academic, 11. des. 2003 - 797 sider Covers 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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... sent his weakest men to Kellett while he remained with Investigator . Only when the latter sent his surgeon to examine the health of those " volunteering " to stay on with McClure , and learned of their shocking condition , did he order ...
... sent out in 1845 to explore a way through the Northwest Passage . Moore's instructions were to meet up with Henry Kellett in HMS Herald in Kotzebue Sound , Alaska . But having made a slow passage , Plover was unable to reach the agreed ...
... sent one of his whale catchers , Odd I , to investi- gate Peter I's potential as a site for a whaling station . They Reached the island on 4 January 1927 ; two weeks were spent circumnavigating it , but no landing could be effected ...
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