Buch, Englisch, 490 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 685 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration
A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the Alert During the Arctic Expedition of 1875 6
Buch, Englisch, 490 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 685 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration
ISBN: 978-1-108-04149-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sir Albert Hastings Markham (1841-1918) was a British Admiral and Arctic explorer. He joined the Royal Navy at fifteen and after postings in China, the Mediterranean and Australia he was promoted to Commander in 1872. For the next six years he took part in Arctic exploration, later writing fascinating accounts of his experiences. He was appointed as Naval Aide-de-Camp to Queen Victoria in 1888, and in 1903 he received a knighthood and was promoted to admiral. Published in 1878, this is the first of several editions of Markham's fascinating first-hand account of the British Arctic expedition of 1875-6. It describes the first passage through Nares Strait, named after the expedition's leader George Nares, and the intrepid dog-sled journey ,led by Markham, that took the party further north than any previous Arctic explorers. Nares' own account of the voyage is also reissued in this series.
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Preface
Officers and ship's company of H.M.S. Alert
1. Fitting out
2. The voyage to Disco
3. The Greenland settlements
4. Melville Bay and the North Water
5. Smith Sound
6. Struggles with the ice
7. A walrus hunt. Dog driving
8. Slow progress through the ice
9. Kennedy Channel
10. The crossing of the threshold
11. Floe-berg Beach
12. Autumn travelling
13. Winter quarters
14. The Royal Arctic Theatre
15. Winter occupations and amusements
16. An Arctic Christmas
17. A Happy New Year
18. Return of the sun
19. Details of sledge travelling
20. The journey of Egerton and Rawson
21. The routine of sledge travelling
22. The northern division - travelling in April
23. The most northern point ever reached by man
24. Return of the northern division
25. Return of all the sledge travellers
26. The return voyage in the ice
27. Homeward bound
Appendices
Index.
