Clements Robert Markham

The Threshold of the Unknown Region

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This overview of Arctic exploration, published 1873, includes chapters on Barents, Hudson, Baffin Bay, and routes for future British expeditions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9781108074858
• ISBN-10: 1108074855
• Artikelnr.: 40869268

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication and preface
1. The pioneers of polar discovery
2. William Barents
3. Henry Hudson
4. Dutch and English whaling voyages in the Spitzbergen seas
5. The Spitzbergen route
6. The Spitzbergen route (cont.)
7. The east coast of Greenland
8. Baffin's Bay, and the passage of the middle pack
9. Smith Sound
10. The Parry Islands
11. Russian Arctic discovery
12. The Austrian Arctic expedition
13. The best route for Arctic exploration
14. The results of Arctic exploration
Appendix
Index.