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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... Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition : The Ross Sea Party , 1914-1917 Shackleton's plan to cross Antarctica from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea was feasible only as long as his crossing party was not required to subsist on just those ...
... Shackleton now found himself forced to break this promise , for he knew of no other possible site . On 29 Jan- uary , Nimrod was in McMurdo Sound . Scott's anchorage at Discovery Inlet was unreachable beyond 20 miles of ice , so Shackleton ...
... Shackleton , Worsley , and Crean prepared themselves for their next endeavor . South Georgia is a mountain range half - buried in the ocean . No one had penetrated more than a mile into its interior , and certainly no one had ...
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