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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... sledge . Efficient sledging was therefore of critical importance . We do not know precisely why Ross chose not to employ dogs . He is likely to have taken into account the avail- ability of considerable and otherwise largely unemployed ...
... sledging arrangements dur- ing Horatio Austin's expedition ( 1850-1851 ) , he introduced a number of innovations , enabling a series of much longer jour- neys to be made . In the fall , depots were laid along the lines of major journeys ...
... sledging journeys made across the west and east sides of the shelf to the mountains by parties from Scott and Amundsen onward , the central area of the shelf remained essentially unexplored , with the exception of a sledging party led ...
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MacMillan Donald 18741970 | 393 |
Fiala Anthony 18691950 222 | 395 |
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