Albert Hastings Markham

A Polar Reconnaissance

Being the Voyage of the Isbjorn to Novaya Zemlya in 1879

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This illustrated work, published in 1881, illuminates historical and recent Arctic exploration in the region of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9781108071949
• ISBN-10: 1108071945
• Artikelnr.: 40721563

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introductory
2. Early English voyages to the north-east
3. Early Dutch voyages to the north-east
4. Russian discoveries in Novaya Zemlya
5. Norwegian explorers in Novaya Zemlya
6. Austro-Hungarian, Swedish, and Dutch expeditions in modern times
7. The Isbjörn
8. First days at sea
9. Nameless bay
10. The Matyushin Shar
11. First attempt to push north frustrated
12. The Kara sea
13. Baffled in the Kara sea
14. Meeting with the 'Willem Barents'
15. Northward ho! and homeward bound
16. Valedictory
Appendices
Index.