Shipwreck at Cape Flora
The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer
2013
University of Calgary Press (Verlag)
9781552387054 (ISBN)
University of Calgary Press (Verlag)
9781552387054 (ISBN)
Benjamin Leigh Smith discovered and named dozens of islands in the Arctic but published no account of his pioneering explorations. Travelling to the Arctic islands that Leigh Smith explored and crisscrossing England to uncover unpublished journals, diaries, and photographs, P.J. Capelotti details Leigh Smith's five major Arctic expeditions.
Benjamin Leigh Smith discovered and named dozens of islands in the Arctic but published no account of his pioneering explorations. He refused public accolades and sent stand-ins to deliver the results of his work to scientific societies. Yet, the Royal Geographic Society's Sir Clements R. Markham referred to him as a polar explorer of the first rank.
Travelling to the Arctic islands that Leigh Smith explored and crisscrossing England to uncover unpublished journals, diaries, and photographs, archaeologist and writer P.J. Capelotti details Leigh Smith's five major Arctic expeditions and places them within the context of the great polar explorations in the nineteenth century.
Benjamin Leigh Smith discovered and named dozens of islands in the Arctic but published no account of his pioneering explorations. He refused public accolades and sent stand-ins to deliver the results of his work to scientific societies. Yet, the Royal Geographic Society's Sir Clements R. Markham referred to him as a polar explorer of the first rank.
Travelling to the Arctic islands that Leigh Smith explored and crisscrossing England to uncover unpublished journals, diaries, and photographs, archaeologist and writer P.J. Capelotti details Leigh Smith's five major Arctic expeditions and places them within the context of the great polar explorations in the nineteenth century.
P. J. Capelotti is associate professor of anthropology at Penn State University, Abington College. He is the author of more than a dozen books and his research has taken him several times to Svalbard and Franz Josef Land and twice to the North Pole.
| Reihe/Serie | Northern Lights |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 40 black & white illustrations, 12 maps |
| Verlagsort | Calgary |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 435 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Welt / Arktis / Antarktis | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781552387054 / 9781552387054 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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