Download or read book The Franz Josef Land Archipelago written by E.B. Baldwin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz Josef Land is a forbidding place, isolated by geography and history. Lying above the Arctic Circle in the northernmost province of Russia, this remote series of islands was only discovered by Westerners in 1873, and remains little known today. A few intrepid explorers ventured there in the late 19th century as a stepping-stone in attempts to reach the North Pole. Chicago journalist Walter Wellman led the first American expedition to the archipelago as part of a polar expedition in 1898-1899. His second-in-command, Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, kept a journal documenting their trip. This previously unpublished journal reveals much about one of the last great periods of exploration--including the violence, chicanery, and racism that characterized much of American exploration and expansion. Baldwin's journal, reproduced here, paints a more realistic picture of the expedition than did Wellman's communiques sent home for mass consumption. Correspondence between Baldwin and Wellman is included, and expedition notes list the supplies carried, descriptions of geographic features observed in the course of the trip, and the doctor's notes on treatments, remedies and supplies. Editor P.J. Capelotti provides an extended introduction, and the text is illustrated with maps, depictions of dramatic events occurring on the trip, and several photographs.
Download or read book New Lands Within the Arctic Circle written by Julius Payer and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Payer and Karl Weyprecht were the commanders of the Austro-Hungarian North-Polar Expedition described here; also includes material on a preliminary expedition by Payer and Weyprecht to the Barents Sea in the summer of 1871.
Download or read book On the Polar Star in the Arctic Sea written by Luigi Amedeo di Savoia (duca degli Abruzzi) and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important attempt at the North pole with descriptions of conditions, wildlife, nature, food, weather, equipment with the second section written by U. Cagni on the sledge march. Amadeo reached the closest to the North Pole at that time. Some of his men froze to death while pulling their sleds over the ice.
Download or read book New Lands Within the Arctic Circle written by Julius Payer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-29 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1876, these two volumes document the 1872-4 Austro-Hungarian Arctic expedition which discovered Franz-Josef Land.
Download or read book The Greatest Show in the Arctic written by Peter Joseph Capelotti and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the American exploration of Franz Josef Land between 1898 and 1905, when three expeditions launched from the archipelago in attempt to reach the geographic North Pole, but ended in failure: the Wellman expedition run by Walter Wellman, a Chicago journalist and bon vivant in search of fame; the Baldwin-Ziegler expedition, led by Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, a Midwestern government meteorologist; and the Fiala-Ziegler expedition, run by Anthony Fiala, a photographer and graphic artist in search of God."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book On the Polar Star in the Arctic Sea written by Luigi Amedeo di Savoia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1903 account of the 1899-1900 Italian/Norwegian expedition, led by Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, towards the North Pole.
Download or read book The Greatest Show in the Arctic written by P. J. Capelotti and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gilded Age America, Arctic explorers were fabulous celebrities—assured of riches and near-immortality so long as they reached the North Pole first. Of the many attempts to meet that goal, three American expeditions, launched from the Russian archipelago of Franz Josef Land, ended in abject failure, their exploits consigned to near-oblivion. Even so, these ventures—the Wellman expedition (1898–99), the Baldwin-Ziegler (1901–2), and the Fiala-Ziegler (1903–5)—have much to tell us about the personalities, politics, and economics of exploration in their day. In The Greatest Show in the Arctic, the first book to chronicle all three expeditions, P. J. Capelotti explores what went right and what, in the end, went tragically wrong. The cast of colorful characters from the Franz Josef Land forays included Walter Wellman, a Chicago journalist and bon vivant running from debts, his mistress, and an illegitimate daughter; Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, a deranged meteorologist with a fetish for balloons and a passion for Swedish conserves; and Anthony Fiala, a pious photographer in search of God in the Arctic. Featuring an international cast of supporting characters worthy of a three-ring circus, The Greatest Show in the Arctic follows each of the three expeditions in turn, from spectacular feats of financing to their bitter ends. Along the way, the explorers accumulated considerable geographic knowledge and left a legacy of place-names. Through close study of the expeditions’ journals, Capelotti reveals that the Franz Josef Land endeavors foundered chiefly because of poor leadership and internal friction, not for lack of funding, as historians have previously suspected. Presenting tales of noble intentions, novel inventions, and epic miscalculations, The Greatest Show in the Arctic brings fresh life to a unique and underappreciated story of American exploration.
Download or read book New Lands within the Arctic Circle Narrative of the Discoveries of the Austrian Ship Tegetthoff in the Years 1872 1874 written by Julius Payer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book The Polar Regions in the Twentieth Century written by Adolphus Washington Greely and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1928 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of exploration before the 20th century, and general description of polar regions.
Download or read book The Austro German Polar Expedition 1872 1874 Under the Command of Lieut W Preliminary Account of the Expedition for the Investigation of Nova Zembla Sea by Lieuts W and Payer June September 1871 A Lecture Delivered by Lieutenant W J Payer s Report of His Sledge Journey Translated from the German Edited by J Wiggins written by Carl WEYPRECHT and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Exploration and Adventure in the Frozen Seas written by Prescott Holmes and published by Philadelphia : H. Altemus. This book was released on 1896 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the exploration of the Arctic regions, from Cabot in the 1490s to Peary and Nansen in the 1890s, by people from Europe and North America.
Download or read book The Freshwater Budget of the Arctic Ocean written by Edward Lyn Lewis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following a decision by the Arctic Ocean Sciences Board (AOSB) in July 1996 the then chainnan, Geoffrey Holland, wrote a letter of invitation to a meeting to plan a "Symposium on the Freshwater Balance of the Arctic". The meeting was held in Ottawa on November 12-13 1996 and was attended by representatives of various organisations, including the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), as well as individual scientists. Results of this meeting included: • Co-sponsorship with AOSB by the Scientific Committee on Ocean Research (SCOR), the Arctic Climate System Study (ACSYS) and the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX). • A decision to apply for funding as a Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Scientific Affairs Division. • That expenses would be covered in part by funds available through an existing NSF grant to the SCOR Executive offices in Baltimore, MD. • The appointment of myself to be Chairman/Manager for the Symposium. • Provision of a recommended list of Scientific Advisors to assist the Chainnan in selecting key speakers.
Download or read book The Austro German Polar Expedition Under the Command of Lieut Weyprecht written by Karl Weyprecht and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arctic Ocean written by Louis Rey and published by Springer. This book was released on 1982-06-18 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of conference held in March 1980, at the Royal Geographical Society to examine the effect of pollutants from Europe, America and Asia on the Arctic Ocean environment.
Download or read book Hunting and Adventure in the Arctic written by Fridtjof Nansen and published by New York : Duffield and Company. This book was released on 1925 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of his first voyage into arctic regions, of his adventures in the ice fields, and his hunting experiences with seal, walrus, polar bear, man-eating sharks, and whales.
Download or read book Recent expeditions to eastern polar seas 1 Voyage of the Hansa and Germania 2 Voyage of the Tegethoff written by Polar seas and published by London : T. Nelson. This book was released on 1882 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes German Arctic Expedition of 1869-70 and the Austrian Arctic Expedition of 1872-74. The first explored the east coast of Greenland and the second steamed past Novaya Zemlya to Franz Josef Land.
Download or read book The Conquest of the Arctic written by Louis Segal and published by London ; Toronto : G.G. Harrap. This book was released on 1939 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
