Download or read book Narrative of the North Polar Expedition written by United States. Navy Department and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a narrative which has been prepared from official papers and from journals of the officers and men of the Expedition, as well as from valuable private contributions acknowledged in the text. The thread of the story of the Polaris has been drawn chiefly from a compilation made by Mr. R. W. D. Bryan, the Astronomer of the Expedition; the incidents of the ice-floe party have been furnished by the journals and notebooks of Geo. E. Tyson, Assistant Navigator, and of others with him on the floe, and by the testimony given before the board organized by the Secretary of the Navy, June 5, 1873."--(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).
Download or read book Narrative of the North Polar Expedition U S Ship Polaris Captain Charles Francis Hall Commanding written by Charles Henry Davis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Download or read book Narrative of the North Polar Expedition written by Charles Henry Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The account, first published in 1876, of a dramatic and ill-fated American expedition to the North Pole.
Download or read book Narrative of the North Polar Expedition U S Ship Polaris Captain Charles Francis Hall Commanding written by Naval Observatory (Washington, City of) and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrative of the North Polar Expedition written by Davis and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Hall (1821-71) was neither seaman nor navigator, but by 1871 he had made two Arctic expeditions as a result of his fascination with the failed expedition of Franklin. With a grant from Congress, his Polaris voyage aimed to be the first US expedition to the North Pole. Desertion, drunkenness, and disagreements beset the venture from the start, and by the time Hall reached the furthest northern point yet attained by an Arctic explorer, crew discipline had broken down completely. Using official papers and crew journals, this 1876 work by C.H. Davis for the US Navy recounts Hall's sudden death (after accusing his crew of poisoning him), the failed attempt to reach the Pole, and the abandonment of half the crew left drifting for 2500 kilometres on an ice floe. With the mystery of Hall's death and the story of the crew's survival, this is an epic tale of human endurance.
Download or read book Narrative of the North Polar Expedition U S Ship Polaris Captain Charles Francis Hall Commanding written by Charles Henry Davis and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrative of the North Polar Expedition U S Ship Polaris Captain Charles Francis Hall Commanding written by Charles Henry Davis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Download or read book Narrative of the North Polar Expeditions U S Ship Polaris Captain Charles Francis Hall Commanding written by Charles H. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Fatal North written by Bruce Henderson and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 2001 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning as America's first attempt to reach the North Pole, an expedition ended with the captain's suspicious death, a brutal struggle for survival, and a government cover-up. This harrowing account of the 130-year old mystery of the "U.S.S. Polaris" presents information from transcripts of the Navy inquest, the ship's log, autopsy and forensic reports, and the personal papers of the captain and crew.
Download or read book The Poetics of the Antarctic written by William E. Lenz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thesis of this book is that the 19th-century interest in the Antarctic functions for modern scholars as an important index to American self-discovery and self-definition from the 1830s onward. According to the author, American hopes for confirming identity came to be focused on an unlikely goal, the discovery of the illusive Antarctic continent. By examining in detail one literary product of the U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) to Antarctica, James Croxall Palmer's epic poem Thulia: A Tale of the Antarctic (1843), and its revision, The Antarctic Mariner's Song (1868), and by locating these works within their cultural context, Lenz reveals the significance and changing meaning of exploration to emerging American concepts of nationhood. The volume also considers the tradition of American sea fiction in the works of such writers as James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville, arguing that for these writers the Antarctic was a locus of symbolic meaning while for Palmer it was a process of individual and collective perception. The 1868 version of the Palmer poem is attached here as an appendix. A useful bibliography follows that appendix.
Download or read book Early Inuit Studies written by Igor Krupnik and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 15 chronologically arranged papers is the first-ever definitive treatment of the intellectual history of Eskimology—known today as Inuit studies—the field of anthropology preoccupied with the origins, history, and culture of the Inuit people. The authors trace the growth and change in scholarship on the Inuit (Eskimo) people from the 1850s to the 1980s via profiles of scientists who made major contributions to the field and via intellectual transitions (themes) that furthered such developments. It presents an engaging story of advancement in social research, including anthropology, archaeology, human geography, and linguistics, in the polar regions. Essays written by American, Canadian, Danish, French, and Russian contributors provide for particular trajectories of research and academic tradition in the Arctic for over 130 years. Most of the essays originated as papers presented at the 18th Inuit Studies Conference hosted by the Smithsonian Institution in October 2012. Yet the book is an organized and integrated narrative; its binding theme is the diffusion of knowledge across disciplinary and national boundaries. A critical element to the story is the changing status of the Inuit people within each of the Arctic nations and the developments in national ideologies of governance, identity, and treatment of indigenous populations. This multifaceted work will resonate with a broad audience of social scientists, students of science history, humanities, and minority studies, and readers of all stripes interested in the Arctic and its peoples.
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