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Sir Clements R. Markham (1830–1916) had succumbed to smoke after accidentally igniting his bedclothes while reading by candlelight; the task of completing this history therefore fell to his friend and fellow geographer F. H. H. Guillemard (1852–1933), who published it in 1921. In the course of his long career, Markham had sailed to the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin, jeopardised his job in the India Office by joining the British attempt to reach the North Pole in 1875–6, and served as president of the Royal Geographical Society, sending Robert Falcon Scott on his first expedition to Antarctica. His extensive knowledge of the prominent polar explorers and expeditions of his day lends this publication an especial interest and authority. Enhanced by a number of maps and illustrations, the book also considers certain scientific and economic developments, notably the growth of the whaling industry.

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Author:   Clements R. Markham ,  F. H. H. Guillemard
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 25.00cm
Weight:   1.050kg
ISBN:  

9781108076876

ISBN 10:   1108076874
Pages:   612
Publication Date:   01 January 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface; Part I. 1. The Arctic regions; 2. Ice and icebergs; 3. Tribes around the pole; 4. Ultima Thule; 5. First crossing of the threshold; 6. The Norsemen in Greenland; 7. Nicholas of Lynn - Zeno - medieval nautical instruments; 8. First English voyages to the north-east - Willoughby - Chancellor Burroughs - Pet; 9. Barentsz - Linschoten - De Veer; 10. Sir Martin Frobisher; 11. John Davis; 12. The merchant adventurers and Richard Hakluyt; 13. Greenland voyage of Hall and Baffin; 14. Early Spitsbergen voyages; 15. Early voyages to Hudson's Bay; 16. William Baffin; 17. Jens Eriksen Munk - Foxe and James - Wood; 18. Hans Egede and Danish Greenland; 19. The Hudson's Bay Company - Hearne and Mackenzie - Cook and Phipps; 20. Russian Arctic discoveries; 21. The British whale fishery and the Scoresbys; 22. Buchan and Ross; 23. Parry and his school; 24. Discovery of the north coast of America - Franklin - Richardson - Back - Dease - Simpson - Rae; 25. John Ross, James Ross, and the north magnetic pole; 26. The Franklin expedition; 27. The search for Franklin I; 28. The search for Franklin II; 29. Discovery of the fate of Franklin; 30. The east coast of Greenland - Scoresby - Clavering - Graah - Koldewey; 31. Spitsbergen - expeditions before 1872; 32. Franz Josef Land and its explorers; 33. The route by Smith Sound - Kane - Hayes - Hall - Nares - Markham; 34. Sir Allen Youn and the Pandora - Amundsen and the North West Passage; 35. Weyprecht's plan for synchronous observations - the Greely expedition; 36. The North East Passage - Nordenskiöld - Wiggins - De Long; 37. Greenland and its inland ice - Nordenskiöld, Nansen, Peary; 38. The trans-polar drift - Nansen and the voyage of the Fram; 39. The Parry archipelago - Sverdrup; 40. Attempts to reach the north pole - Cagni - Cook - Peary; 41. Koolemans Beynen and the voyages of the Willem Barentsz - Sir Martin Conway and Spitsbergen - Captain Bernier and Canadian Arctic lands; 42. East coast of Greenland - Danish expeditions; 43. Later Greenland explorations - Mikkelsen - Rasmussen - Koch; 44. Conclusion; Part II. 45. The great southern continent; 46. Captain Cook - Bellingshausen; 47. The South Shetlands - Foster - Weddell; 48. Enderby and his captains: Biscoe - Kempe - Balleny; 49. Dumont D'Urville and Wilkes; 50. First Antarctic voyage of Sir James Ross; 51. Second Antarctic voyage; 52. Third Antarctic voyage of Sir James Ross; 53. Antarctic oceanography; 54. Revival of Antarctic exploration; 55. Private expeditions - Borchgrevink - Gerlache - Nordenskiöld - Bruce - Drygalksi - Charcot - Filchner; 56. Preparations for the Societies' Antarctic expedition; 57. The Societies' Antarctic expedition - first year; 58. The Societies' Antarctic expedition - the Morning; 59. The Societies' Antarctic expedition - second year; 60. Shackleton's attempt to reach the pole; 61. Amundsen's journey to the south pole; 62. Mawson's expedition; 63. Captain Scott's last expedition; 64. Captain Scott's last expedition - the end; 65. Remaining Antarctic work; Chronology of polar voyages and explorations; Brief bibliography of polar voyages and travels; Index.

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