The lands of silence : a history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration /

The lands of silence : a history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration / Clements R. Markham ; edited by F.H.H. Guillemard.

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 lon...

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Main Author: Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir, 1830-1916 (Author)
Other Authors: Guillemard, F. H. H. (Francis Henry Hill), 1852-1933 (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Series:Cambridge library collection. Polar exploration.
Subjects:
Discoveries in geography.
Polar regions > Discovery and exploration.
Polar regions.
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. Burrough. 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 Young 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 of Sir James Ross
  • 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 I
  • 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.

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