Download or read book Lt Charles Wilkes and the Great U S Exploring Expedition written by Cheri Wolfe and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 1991 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the journey of Charles Wilkes as he led a group of American seamen through the South Pacific and became the first to cite Antarctica as a separate continent.
Download or read book The Great United States Exploring Expedition of 1838 1842 written by William Ragan Stanton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expedition travelled to Antarctica, the South Pacific, the Atlantic and the coasts of what are now Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.
Download or read book Sea of Glory written by Nathaniel Philbrick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A treasure of a book."—David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye. A New York Times Notable Book America's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his bestselling In the Heart of the Sea Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of discovery the Western world has ever seen—the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842. On a scale that dwarfed the journey of Lewis and Clark, six magnificent sailing vessels and a crew of hundreds set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean and ended up naming the newly discovered continent of Antarctica, collecting what would become the basis of the Smithsonian Institution. Combining spellbinding human drama and meticulous research, Philbrick reconstructs the dark saga of the voyage to show why, instead of being celebrated and revered as that of Lewis and Clark, it has—until now—been relegated to a footnote in the national memory. Winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize
Download or read book Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition written by Charles Wilkes and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Land of Wondrous Cold written by Gillen D’Arcy Wood and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping history of the polar continent, from the great discoveries of the nineteenth century to modern scientific breakthroughs Antarctica, the ice kingdom hosting the South Pole, looms large in the human imagination. The secrets of this vast frozen desert have long tempted explorers, but its brutal climate and glacial shores notoriously resist human intrusion. Land of Wondrous Cold tells a gripping story of the pioneering nineteenth-century voyages, when British, French, and American commanders raced to penetrate Antarctica’s glacial rim for unknown lands beyond. These intrepid Victorian explorers—James Ross, Dumont D’Urville, and Charles Wilkes—laid the foundation for our current understanding of Terra Australis Incognita. Today, the white continent poses new challenges, as scientists race to uncover Earth’s climate history, which is recorded in the south polar ice and ocean floor, and to monitor the increasing instability of the Antarctic ice cap, which threatens to inundate coastal cities worldwide. Interweaving the breakthrough research of the modern Ocean Drilling Program with the dramatic discovery tales of its Victorian forerunners, Gillen D’Arcy Wood describes Antarctica’s role in a planetary drama of plate tectonics, climate change, and species evolution stretching back more than thirty million years. An original, multifaceted portrait of the polar continent emerges, illuminating our profound connection to Antarctica in its past, present, and future incarnations. A deep-time history of monumental scale, Land of Wondrous Cold brings the remotest of worlds within close reach—an Antarctica vital to both planetary history and human fortunes.
Download or read book A Memory of Ice written by Elizabeth Truswell and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the southern summer of 1972/73, the Glomar Challenger was the first vessel of the international Deep Sea Drilling Project to venture into the seas surrounding Antarctica, confronting severe weather and ever-present icebergs. A Memory of Ice presents the science and the excitement of that voyage in a manner readable for non-scientists. Woven into the modern story is the history of early explorers, scientists and navigators who had gone before into the Southern Ocean. The departure of the Glomar Challenger from Fremantle took place 100 years after the HMS Challenger weighed anchor from Portsmouth, England, at the start of its four-year voyage, sampling and dredging the world’s oceans. Sailing south, the Glomar Challenger crossed the path of James Cook’s HMS Resolution, then on its circumnavigation of Antarctica in search of the Great South Land. Encounters with Lieutenant Charles Wilkes of the US Exploring Expedition and Douglas Mawson of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition followed. In the Ross Sea, the voyages of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror under James Clark Ross, with the young Joseph Hooker as botanist, were ever present. The story of the Glomar Challenger’s iconic voyage is largely told through the diaries of the author, then a young scientist experiencing science at sea for the first time. It weaves together the physical history of Antarctica with how we have come to our current knowledge of the polar continent. This is an attractive, lavishly illustrated and curiosity-satisfying read for the general public as well as for scholars of science.
Download or read book Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 by Charles Wilkes written by Charles Wilkes (de la marine des États-Unis, Cdt.) and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Voyage of the U S Exploring Squadron Commanded by Captain Charles Wilkes of the United States Navy in 1838 1839 1840 1841 and 1842 written by John Stilwell Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I, Expeditions in the Pacific and the south seas, comprises the bulk of this work. It covers facts not included in the published narratives of the respective commanders, and a partial list of sources is given in the preface.
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Download or read book Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 written by Charles Wilkes and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 Under the Command of Charles Wilkes written by Charles Wilkes and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
