Daines Barrington

The Possibility of Approaching the North Pole Asserted

Herausgeber: Beaufoy, Mark

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reissued in its 1818 second edition, these papers discuss Arctic exploration and evidence for the theorised open polar sea.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781108071840
• ISBN-10: 1108071848
• Artikelnr.: 40720013

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Instances of navigators who have reached high northern latitudes
Additional proofs
Postscript
Additional papers from Hull
Thoughts on discovering a passage by the North Pole
A short account of navigators who have reached high northern latitudes
Observations on the floating ice
Appendix.