The Official Report of the Recent Arctic Expedition

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-108-04153-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 106 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 145 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration

In 1875, Sir George Strong Nares (1831-1915) set out for the Arctic in command of the ships Alert and Discovery, hoping to reach the North Pole and find the rumoured Open Polar Sea that surrounded it. The Official Report, published in 1876, recounts his fifteenth-month journey in lively and often harrowing detail, describing freezing temperatures, frostbite and scurvy, vast, uncharted landscapes and treacherous, ice-choked waterways. It records the progress of the British Arctic Expedition with the scrupulous detail of a ship's log, providing valuable insights into the logistical complexities and human costs of Polar exploration. 'We had arrived on the shore of the Arctic Ocean finding it exactly the opposite of an Open Polar Sea', Nares notes ruefully. A two-volume popular account of the voyage, published in 1878, is also reissued in this series.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nares, George S.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographische Entdeckungen und Erkundung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Historische Geographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Report of the Arctic Expedition, 27th October 1876.