Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia [2 Volumes]Bloomsbury Academic, 11.12.2003 - 797 sivua 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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... Bering Strait , but he had charted an extensive area of previously unknown land , and there was particular interest in his account of the Inuit . In his absence , he had been pro- moted to captain , and on 1 December he was appointed ...
... Bering had suggested that the Arctic coast of Russia be surveyed between the Ob ' and Lena Rivers . This proposal was subsequently expanded to take in the entire coast from Archangel to the Kamchatka Peninsula . Bering himself was ...
... Bering Strait ; Bering , Vitus ( 1733-1743 ) ; Kotzebue , Otto von ; Northwest Passage References and further reading : Ivashintsov , N. A. 1980. Russian round the world voyages , 1803-1849 , with a summary of later voyages to 1867 ...
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