Download or read book The Utilization of the Scientific Reports of the United States Arctic Expeditions 1850 1909 written by John Edwards Caswell and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 547 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.
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Download or read book United States Scientific Expeditions to the Arctic 1850 1909 written by John Edwards Caswell and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book United States Polar Exploration written by Herman Ralph Friis and published by Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-six papers on history of U.S. polar exploration.
Download or read book Ships Seas and Scientists written by Vincent Ponko and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes chapters on Wilkes expedition to Antarctica, 1838-42, U.S. expeditions in search of Franklin, 1850-55, and expeditions in North Pacific and Bering Strait, 1852-63.
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Download or read book Abstracts of Dissertations for the Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Education written by Stanford University and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Isis Cumulative Bibliography written by Magda Whitrow and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A three volume index by personality, institution and subject to the critical bibliographies on the history of science published in ISIS from 1913 to 1965. References in the bibliographies are to items in books, journals, reports, documents, etc. An excellent starting point for researching a topic in the history of science.
Download or read book Ethnographic Bibliography of North America written by George Peter Murdock and published by New Haven : Human Relations Area Files Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 15,000 entries dealing with ethnography, history, psychology, human biology and medicine of native peoples of North America. Includes published materials issued before and during 1972.
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