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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... decided that they must go on , leaving behind food , clothing , and maps in the faint hope that Olsen might still be alive . With fourteen dogs pulling two sledges , they reached the Inland Ice on 11 August , up a glacier in St. George ...
... decided that it might just be possible to go through it . In an episode that could have come from Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt , he and Fosheim descended through a tunnel into a suc- cession of ice caves hung about with giant icicles , to ...
... decided to wait until the technology was more advanced . Ten years later he again approached Godard to commission the construction of an airship with funding provided by the Chicago Record - Herald , as eager as ever for sensational ...
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MacMillan Donald 18741970 | 393 |
Fiala Anthony 18691950 222 | 395 |
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