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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... decided to turn back out of concern that the marked westerly drift of the ice was threatening to take them through Bering Strait into the Bering Sea . After sixty days on the ice , they returned to Flaxman Island to discover Duchess of ...
... 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 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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