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 320 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 760 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 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 Doctoral Research on Canada and Canadians 1884 1983 written by Jesse John Dossick and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1986 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Globalizing Polar Science written by R. Launius and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Polar Years and the International Geophysical Year represented a remarkable international collaborative scientific effort that has been largely neglected by historians. This groundbreaking collection seeks to redress that neglect and illuminate critical aspects of the last 150 years of international scientific endeavour.
Download or read book Arctic Bibliography written by Arctic Institute of North America and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Technical Information Pilot written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 740 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 The Polar Bibliography written by Library of Congress. Technical Information Division and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on materials not published through the normal commercial media. Prepared for the U.S. Dept. of Defence. Includes formal reports, staff studies and memoranda, translations, pamphlets, etc.
