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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Rhode Island merchants was intriguingly not Great Britain 1761 , 1762 Christopher Hudson Bay Hudson's Bay Company but Russia , following the realiza1770–1772 Hearne Overland to Coppermine Hudson's Bay Company tion that its European and ...
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Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia, Volum 1 William James Mills Utdragsvisning - 2003 |