Download or read book The Royal Geographical Society and the Arctic Expedition of 1875 76 written by Clements Robert Markham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1877, this report on the progress of an Arctic expedition demonstrates the approaches adopted in the nineteenth century.

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Download or read book The Royal Geographical Society and the Arctic Expedition of 1875 76 written by Sir Clements Robert Markham and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Selection of Papers on Arctic Geography and Ethnology written by Clements Robert Markham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable collection of papers by eminent explorers and scientists, compiled for the benefit of the 1875 British Arctic Expedition.

Download or read book The Arctic Expedition of 1875 6 Compiled from Official Sources with a Summary of Previous Adventures in the Arctic Seas With Maps and Illustrations written by Robert Johnston (Teacher of Swords Endowed School.) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book On the Exploration of the North Polar Region The Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society 23rd January 1865 when a Paper was Read on the Above Subject by Sherard Osborn Etc written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Fifty Years Work of the Royal Geographical Society written by Sir Clements Robert Markham and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss Feilden R A The Naturalist in H M S Alert 1875 1876 written by Trevor Levere and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Arctic Expedition of 1875–6 was the first major British naval expedition to the high Arctic where science was almost as important as geographical exploration. There were hopes that the expedition might find the hypothetical open polar sea and with it the longed-for Northwest Passage, and it did reach the highest northern latitude to date. The Royal Society compiled instructions for the expedition, and selected two full-time naturalists (an unusual naval concession to science), of whom one, Henry Wemyss Feilden, proved a worthy choice. Feilden was a soldier, who fought in most of the wars in his lifetime, including the American Civil War, on the Confederate side. On board HMS Alert, he kept a daily journal, a record important for its scientific content, but also as a view of the expedition as seen by a soldier, revealing admiration and appreciation for his naval colleagues; he performed whatever tasks were given to him, including the rescue of returning sledge parties stricken by scurvy. He also did a remarkably comprehensive job in mapping the geology of Smith Sound; some of his work, on the Cape Rawson Beds, was the most reliable until the 1950s. He was an all-round naturalist, and a particularly fine geologist and ornithologist. He was not just a collector; he pondered the significance of his findings within the context of the best modern science of his day: in zoology, Charles Darwin on evolution; in botany, Hooker on phytogeography, and in geology, Charles Lyell’s system. He illustrated his journal with his own sketches, and also enclosed the printed programmes of popular entertainments held on the ship, and verses for birthdays and sledging (there was a printing press onboard). The journal gives a vigorous impression of a ship’s company well occupied through the winter, then increasingly active in sledging and geographical discovery in spring, before the scurvy-induced decision to head home in the summer of 1876. After his return, Feilden had dealings with many scientists and their institutions, finding homes for and meaning in his collections.

Download or read book Supplement to thr Alphabetical Catalogue of the Liobrary of the Royal Geographical Society written by John Murray and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Admiral Albert Hastings Markham written by Frank Jastrzembski and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a 19th-century adventurer who battled pirates, hunted buffalo, sailed the Arctic, and was “one of the most arresting figures of his time” (The Globe). Few men have lived such an extraordinary life as Admiral Albert Hastings Markham. Besides dedicating five decades of his career to Britain’s Royal Navy, Markham was a voracious reader, prolific writer, keen naturalist, and daring explorer. He battled Chinese pirates during the Second Opium War and Taiping Rebellion; chased down Australian blackbirding ships in the South Pacific; trekked to within 400 miles of the North Pole; hunted buffalo and visited Indian reservations in the United States; observed a bloody war in South America; canoed Canada’s remote Hayes River; and explored the icy waters of Baffin Bay and the Arctic Ocean archipelago of Novaya Zemlya. At the time of his death in 1918, The Globe declared that Markham had been “one of the most arresting figures of his time.” While Markham’s life was filled with adventure, it was also marred by tragedy. Regrettably, Markham is best remembered for his role in the sinking of HMS Victoria in 1893. This one incident has tarnished his legacy until now. This book follows Markham through his adventures and misfortunes—and reassesses the life of this forgotten yet fascinating admiral.