Allen Young

The Two Voyages of the Pandora

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Young's 1879 accounts of his two expeditions to the Arctic to navigate the North-West Passage in the steam yacht Pandora.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9781108050104
• ISBN-10: 1108050107
• Artikelnr.: 35426492

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. The First Voyage of the Pandora: 1. The voyage to Greenland
2. The kryolite mine
3. Navigation on the coast of Greenland
4. Godhavn and the Waigat
5. The passage through Melville Bay
6. The Cary Islands
7. Lancaster Sound and Barrow Strait
8. Beechey Island
9. Peel Strait
10. An impassable barrier
11. A perilous race with the ice
12. A second visit to the Cary Islands
13. The voyage home
Part II. The Second Voyage of the Pandora: 1. Preparations for the voyage
2. The voyage to Disco
3. Disco
4. Kudliset and Upernivik
5. Melville Bay
6. A hurricane in the north water
7. Littleton Island and Pandora Harbour
8. Cape Isabella
9. Attempts to reach Cape Isabella
10. Second visit to Cape Isabella
11. Driven out of Smith Sound
12. Visit to the Arctic highlanders
13. Back at Upernivik
14. Meeting with the Polar ships
15. Homeward bound
Appendix.