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Memoirs of Hans Hendrik, the Arctic Traveller, Serving under Kane, Hayes, Hall and Nares, 1853-1876
Translated from the Eskimo Language
Av Hans Hendrik, George Stephens
Häftad, 2014
366 kr
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First published in 1878, this English translation of the memoirs of Hans Hendrik (c.1834-89), a native Greenlander, provides a valuable alternative perspective on polar exploration in the nineteenth century. Inuit were often employed on Arctic expeditions of the period. Hendrik is remarkable, …
A Summer in Greenland
Av A. C. Seward
Häftad, 2010
373 kr
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The author of the standard early twentieth-century textbook on fossil plants, A. C. Seward (1863-1941) was Professor of Botany at Cambridge, Master of Downing College and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. This account of his first research trip to Greenland is an evocative portrait of the …
A Short Narrative of the Second Voyage of the Prince Albert, in Search of Sir John Franklin
Häftad, 2010
442 kr
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William Kennedy (1814-1890) was an explorer and fur trader. In 1851 he was recommended to Lady Franklin as the commander of her second sponsored expedition in search of her husband, Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), who had not returned from his 1845 expedition to chart the remaining …
The Voyage of the Prince Albert in Search of Sir John Franklin
A Narrative of Every-Day Life in the Arctic Seas
Häftad, 2010
653 kr
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William Parker Snow (1817-1895) was a sailor, explorer and writer. In 1850 he wrote to Lady Franklin volunteering his services to lead a land expedition to recover her husband, Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) who had not returned from his 1845 Arctic expedition. Lady Franklin declined …
The Last of the Arctic Voyages
Being a Narrative of the Expedition in HMS Assistance, under the Command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., in Search of Sir John Franklin, during the Years 1852-54
Häftad, 2011
687 kr
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When the experienced Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) was put in command of an expedition in 1845 to search for the elusive North-West Passage he had the backing of the Admiralty and was equipped with two specially-adapted ships and a three-year supply of provisions. Franklin was last …
The Last of the Arctic Voyages
Being a Narrative of the Expedition in HMS Assistance, under the Command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., in Search of Sir John Franklin, during the Years 1852-54
Häftad, 2011
720 kr
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When the experienced Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) was put in command of an expedition in 1845 to search for the elusive North-West Passage he had the backing of the Admiralty and was equipped with two specially-adapted ships and a three-year supply of provisions. Franklin was last …
A Chronological History of Voyages into the Arctic Regions
Undertaken Chiefly for the Purpose of Discovering a North-East, North-West, or Polar Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific
Av John Barrow
Häftad, 2011
720 kr
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Sir John Barrow (1764-1848), a founder and early president of the Royal Geographical Society, served as Second Secretary to the Admiralty for forty years. He was responsible for promoting polar exploration, and published two books on the subject for general readers, both now reissued in the …
A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the Years 1839-43
Häftad, 2011
721 kr
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James Clark Ross (1800-1862) was an explorer who served in the Royal Navy and made his first Arctic trip in 1818 on an unsuccessful mission to find the North-West Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. On the basis of his polar experience, he was appointed to lead further expeditions, and …
A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the Years 1839-43
Häftad, 2011
821 kr
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James Clark Ross (1800-1862) was an explorer who served in the Royal Navy and made his first Arctic trip in 1818 on an unsuccessful mission to find the North-West Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. On the basis of his polar experience, he was appointed to lead further expeditions, and …
Excursions in and about Newfoundland, during the Years 1839 and 1840
Häftad, 2011
536 kr
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Joseph Beete Jukes (1811-1869) was a geologist who studied at Cambridge under the famous Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) and eventually became a prominent member of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. In 1839, after many field expeditions in England, he was appointed to a survey of Newfoundland, a …
Excursions in and about Newfoundland, during the Years 1839 and 1840
Häftad, 2011
619 kr
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Joseph Beete Jukes (1811-1869) was a geologist who studied at Cambridge under the famous Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) and eventually became a prominent member of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. In 1839, after many field expeditions in England, he was appointed to a survey of Newfoundland, a …
Farthest North
Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram, 1893-96, and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey
Häftad, 2011
921 kr
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Originally published in 1897, this two-volume work chronicles the polar expedition of Norwegian scientist Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), who came closer than any previous explorer to the North Pole. Beginning on board his boat, the Fram, which was deliberately driven into pack-ice off Siberia in …
Farthest North
Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram, 1893-96, and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey
Häftad, 2011
1039 kr
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Originally published in 1897, this two-volume work chronicles the polar expedition of Norwegian scientist Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), who came closer than any previous explorer to the North Pole. Beginning on board his boat, the Fram, which was deliberately driven into pack-ice off Siberia in …
Journal of a Third Voyage for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Performed in the Years 1824-25, in His Majesty's ships Hecla and Fury, under the Orders of Captain William Edward Parry
Häftad, 2011
803 kr
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In May 1824, the British explorer William Edward Parry (1790-1855) took to the seas on his third attempt to discover the North-West Passage, the legendary route to the Pacific along the northern coast of North America. It was a perilous voyage that he abandoned after the wreck of his ship, the …
Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait
To Co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, under the Command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28
Häftad, 2011
699 kr
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Frederick William Beechey (1796-1856), naval officer and hydrographer, was born into a family of artists, joined the Navy at a young age and went on to travel the world to survey coastlines and oceans. He published several accounts of his expeditions to destinations including the Arctic and Africa. …
The First Crossing of Greenland
Häftad, 2011
803 kr
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First published in English in 1890, this book by Norwegian explorer and scientist Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) recounts the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, an expedition that took two months. Learning from previous failed attempts, Nansen suggested crossing from the uninhabited …
The First Crossing of Greenland
Häftad, 2011
803 kr
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First published in English in 1890, this book by Norwegian explorer and scientist Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) recounts the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, an expedition that took two months. Learning from previous failed attempts, Nansen suggested crossing from the uninhabited …
Voyages of Discovery and Research within the Arctic Regions, from the Year 1818 to the Present Time
Av John Barrow
Häftad, 2011
803 kr
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Sir John Barrow (1764-1848) was Second Secretary to the Admiralty for forty years. He was responsible for promoting polar exploration, and published two books on the subject for general readers. A Chronological History of Voyages into the Arctic Regions appeared in 1818, and this 1846 publication …
A Personal Narrative of the Discovery of the North-West Passage
While in Search of the Expedition under Sir John Franklin
Häftad, 2011
921 kr
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The H.M.S. Investigator spent the years 1850-4 in the Western Arctic engaged in a search for the lost expedition of the explorer Sir John Franklin. In this 1857 publication Alexander Armstrong (1818-99), surgeon and naturalist to the ship, gives a first-hand account of life on board during the …
An Account of the Arctic Regions
With a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery
Häftad, 2011
921 kr
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Written by explorer, scientist and later clergyman William Scoresby (1789-1857), this two-volume guide to the Arctic regions was first published in 1820. Scoresby, himself the son of a whaler and Arctic explorer, first sailed to the polar regions at the age of eleven, and was later apprenticed to …
An Account of the Arctic Regions
With a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery
Häftad, 2011
821 kr
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Written by explorer, scientist and later clergyman William Scoresby (1789-1857), this two-volume guide to the Arctic regions was first published in 1820. Scoresby, himself the son of a whaler and Arctic explorer, first sailed to the polar regions at the age of eleven, and was later apprenticed to …
A Narrative of Some Passages in the History of Eenoolooapik
A Young Esquimaux, Who Was Brought to Britain in 1839, in the Ship Neptune of Aberdeen
Häftad, 2011
435 kr
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Published in 1841, this is the story of Eenoolooapik, a young Inuit who guided whaling captain William Penny to the mouth of Cumberland Sound - a whale-rich body of water - 250 years after it was first explored and named by John Davis. Probably the first Inuk for whom a biography was published …
The Life of William Scoresby
Häftad, 2011
684 kr
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Robert Scoresby-Jackson (1833-67), physician and geographer, was the grandson of Arctic explorer and whaler William Scoresby senior, and nephew to Arctic explorer, scientist, clergyman and social reformer William Scoresby junior (1789-1857). First published in 1861, this biography recounts the many …
Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery
Including Researches and Discoveries on the Eastern Coast of West Greenland, Made in the Summer of 1822, in the Ship Baffin of Liverpool
Häftad, 2011
803 kr
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William Scoresby junior (1789-1857), explorer, scientist, and later Church of England clergyman, first travelled to the Arctic when he was just ten years old. The son of Arctic whaler and navigator William Scoresby of Whitby, he spent nearly every summer for twenty years at a Greenland whale …
Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827
Av John Franklin, John Richardson
Häftad, 2012
1017 kr
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Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) joined the Navy at the age of fourteen and saw action at Copenhagen and Trafalgar. Between those battles, he circumnavigated Australia with his uncle, Matthew Flinders; he became famous after his first major expedition to northern Canada in 1819-22, although it …
Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Performed in the Years 1821-22-23 ... under the Orders of Captain William Edward Parry
Häftad, 2011
1106 kr
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After joining the Navy at thirteen, William Edward Parry (1790-1855) spent three years protecting the whale fisheries of Spitzbergen. He was later appointed to several Arctic expeditions. Although his first voyage in search of the North-West Passage ended without success in 1819, it provided …
Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Performed in the Years 1819-20 ... under the Orders of William Edward Parry
Häftad, 2011
1039 kr
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William Edward Parry (1790-1855) spent the early part of his naval career protecting the whale fisheries of Spitzbergen. He was later appointed to several Arctic expeditions, including three in search of the North-West Passage. This 1821 publication, reissued here in the unchanged second edition …
Narrative of the Discoveries on the North Coast of America
Effected by the Officers of the Hudson's Bay Company during the Years 1836-1839
Häftad, 2011
720 kr
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In 1829, Thomas Simpson (1808-1840), born in Dingwall, Scotland, joined the fur-trading Hudson's Bay Company. Under its auspices, he was the junior officer of a successful survey expedition along the North-West Passage, beyond the limits of Franklin's disastrous 1819-22 attempt. The Royal …
Memoirs of Rear-Admiral Sir W. Edward Parry
Av Edward Parry
Häftad, 2011
720 kr
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Written by his son, the Rev. Edward Parry, this 1857 memoir describes the life and times of Rear-Admiral Sir W. Edward Parry (1790-1855), the British naval officer and Arctic explorer. The work describes how Parry became a successful pioneer of Arctic enterprise, having in 1827 attempted one of the …
Arctic Explorations
The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55
Häftad, 2011
821 kr
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Elisha Kent Kane (1820-57) was a medical officer in the United States Navy, best known for the so-called 'Grinnell voyages' to the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin's expedition. Originally published in 1856, this two-volume work documents his second expedition, between 1853 and 1855, during …
