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Book The Discovery of the North west Passage by H M S   Investigator   Capt  R  M Clure  1850  1851  1852  1853  1854

Download or read book The Discovery of the North west Passage by H M S Investigator Capt R M Clure 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 written by Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Discovery of the North West Passage by H M S   Investigator   Capt  R  M Clure  1850  1851  1852  1853  1854

Download or read book The Discovery of the North West Passage by H M S Investigator Capt R M Clure 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 written by Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure and published by London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts. This book was released on 1856 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Discovery of the North West Passage by H  M  S   Investigator   Capt  R  M  Clure  1850 54

Download or read book The Discovery of the North West Passage by H M S Investigator Capt R M Clure 1850 54 written by Sherard Osborn and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Discovery of the North West Passage by H M S   Investigator  Capt  R  M Clure  1850  1851  1852  1853  1854

Download or read book The Discovery of the North West Passage by H M S Investigator Capt R M Clure 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 written by Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Discovery of the North West Passage by H  M  S  Investigator  Capt  R  M Clure  1850  1851  1852  1853  1854

Download or read book The Discovery of the North West Passage by H M S Investigator Capt R M Clure 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 written by Sherard Osborn and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book    The    Discovery of the North West Passage

Download or read book The Discovery of the North West Passage written by Robert Le Mesurier Mac Clure and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documentation of the British naval expedition to the Canadian Arctic to map and explore routes to the Pacific Ocean.

Book Discovering the North West Passage

Download or read book Discovering the North West Passage written by Glenn M. Stein and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1850 to 1854, the ambitious Commander Robert McClure captained the HMS Investigator on a voyage in search of the missing Franklin Expedition, which sailed from England into the Arctic in 1845 to map the last uncharted section of the North-West Passage. The Investigator and her consort the Enterprise were to pass through the Bering Strait from the west but a Pacific storm separated them, never to meet again. Obsessed with traversing the passage, McClure pressed on and HMS Investigator spent three years trapped in pack ice in Mercy Bay before the crew abandoned ship on foot. This book chronicles the voyage in detail. McClure and his relationships with his officers are at the heart of the story of the arduous journey, vividly illustrated by the paintings of Lt. Samuel Cresswell.

Book The North west Passage

Download or read book The North west Passage written by Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Exploring Polar Frontiers  2 volumes

Download or read book Exploring Polar Frontiers 2 volumes written by William James Mills and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-12-11 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia is the only reference work that provides a comprehensive history of polar exploration from the ancient period through the present day. The author is a noted polar scholar and offers dramatic accounts of all major explorers and their expeditions, together with separate exploration histories for specific islands, regions, and uncharted waters. He presents a wealth of fascinating information under a variety of subject entries including methods of transport, myths, achievements, and record-breaking activities. 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.

Book Frozen in Time

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  • Author : Owen Beattie
  • Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
  • Release : 2017-06-20
  • ISBN : 1771641746
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Frozen in Time written by Owen Beattie and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1845, Sir John Franklin and his men set out to “penetrate the icy fastness of the north, and to circumnavigate America.” And then they disappeared. The truth about what happened to Franklin’s ill-fated Arctic expedition was shrouded in mystery for more than a century. Then, in 1984, Owen Beattie and his team exhumed two crew members from a burial site in the North for forensic evidence, to shocking results. But the most startling discovery didn’t come until 2014, when a team commissioned by the Canadian government uncovered one of the lost ships: Erebus.

Book Lion City Narratives  Singapore Through Western Eyes

Download or read book Lion City Narratives Singapore Through Western Eyes written by Victor R Savage and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lion City Narratives: Singapore Through Western Eyes fulfils four aims. First, it is a study of subjective Western impressions of Singapore's 145 years (1819-1963) of colonial history. The study is not meant to be an in-depth historical analysis of Singapore, but rather to give the reader an impressionistic account of how Western residents viewed Singapore over the decades. Second, this study could be seen as a short biography of Singapore's evolution as a city. The chapters on the imageability of Singapore and its urban morphology provide a holistic perspective of Singapore's urban dynamics. Third, this book provides a cultural insight into Singapore's population, both White residents and transient visitors, as well as the locals or Asians. Fourth, it opens a window into Singapore's development at a time when the West was at its cultural zenith and when Great Britain was the principal superpower of the 19th century. Hence Singapore carried twin colonial legacies — it was the archetype trading emporium between East and West, and it became, for the British, the major point d'appui for defence. Finally, the Singapore colonial narrative is set in a broader academic discourse that allows the reader to see a wider picture of Singapore's colonial development.The book does not attempt to make a definitive statement about the Western involvement in Singapore; it deals more with an association of many subjective Western perspectives that add colour to the liveability of the tropics, perceptions of the exotic Orient, and the myriad views of ethnic groups. Without the Western writings, paintings, and maps, academia would have minimal records of Singapore's development. As a new colony in the early 19th century however, Singapore's growth has been extremely well documented.This book will appeal to Singaporeans interested in understanding Singapore's colonial past, Westerners interested in the Western cultural persona in the development of Singapore, researchers dealing with the urban development of less-developed countries and colonial development in the tropical world, and lastly, academics who are interested in Singapore and the region's political and economic development as a case study.

Book The Canadian Field naturalist

Download or read book The Canadian Field naturalist written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tracking the Franklin Expedition of 1845

Download or read book Tracking the Franklin Expedition of 1845 written by Stephen Zorn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Franklin Northwest Passage Expedition of 1845 is perhaps the greatest disaster in the history of exploration--all 129 men vanished, as did the expedition's two ships, HMS Erebus and Terror. Over the next 150 years, searchers found bones, clothing and a variety of relics. Inuit narratives provided some of the details of what happened to the frozen, starving sailors after they deserted their ice-locked ships in 1848. Then, in 2014 and 2016, Canadian researchers found the sunken wrecks, not far from the bleak, windswept King William Island in the Arctic. At last, the mystery of the Franklin Expedition would be solved. Or would it? This book pulls together the various searchers' discoveries; the many recent scientific studies that shed light on when, how and why the men died (and whether, in extremis, they ate each other); and illuminates what we know, and what we don't and may never know, about the fate of the expedition.

Book Across the Top of the World

Download or read book Across the Top of the World written by James Delgado and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The centuries-long quest for the fabled Northwest Passage rivals the story of Antarctic exploration for heroism, drama, and tragedy. Expedition after expedition set off in search of a sea route connecting Europe with Asia's riches; each expedition suffered extreme hardship and ended in defeat, until Roald Amundsen finally succeeded in 1903-06. Across the Top of the World brings this incredible saga to life through exhaustive research, grim firsthand accounts, and hundreds of dramatic images. Paintings, engravings, and photos of the intrepid men and their ships, as well as of relics and archaeological sites, provide a poignant and compelling link with the past, while landscapes and seascapes of the harsh yet beautiful Arctic illustrate the challenges that faced explorers. Covering all the major expeditions in detail, and written with passion and authority, this book is both a scholarly reference and an eminently readable history of Arctic exploration.