M. E. Markham, F. A. Markham

The Life of Sir Albert Hastings Markham

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Produktbeschreibung

A 1927 biography of the naval officer and polar explorer Sir Albert Hastings Markham (1841-1918), using his own journals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9781108071673
• ISBN-10: 1108071678
• Artikelnr.: 40844502

Inhaltsangabe

1. Early years (1841
56); 2. First foreign service (1856
8); 3. Pirates in the China Sea (1858
9); 4. Active service (1859
67); 5. Under the Southern Cross (1867
72); 6. The call of the North (1872
4); 7. Northward ho! (May
September 1875); 8. An Arctic winter (September
December 1875); 9. On the Polar Sea (January
November 1876); 10. On the prairies (November 1876
March 1878); 11. A cruise to the Kara Sea (April 1878
October 1879); 12. On the Pacific station (November 1879
October 1882); 13. The torpedo school
Hudson's Bay (November 1882
November 1886); 14. Commodore of the Training Squadron (November 1886
August 1891); 15. Flying his flag in the Mediterranean (1892
3); 16. The Victoria disaster (1893
4); 17. Marriage
the Nore command
last years (1894
1918); Appendix A. Description of new species of birds found by Sir Albert Markham; Appendix B. Bibliography of Sir Albert Markham's writings; Index.