A Polar Reconnaissance
Enhanced by several attractive engravings, this work, first published in 1881, illuminates Arctic exploration in the region of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, north of the Russian mainland. Naval officer Albert Hastings Markham (1841–1918) summarises previous discoveries and voyages made in the regio...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/cbo9781107296992 2024-06-09T07:43:38+00:00 A Polar Reconnaissance Being the Voyage of the Isbjörn to Novaya Zemlya in 1879 Markham, Albert Hastings 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107296992 unknown Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms ISBN 9781108071949 9781107296992 monograph 2014 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107296992 2024-05-15T13:14:21Z Enhanced by several attractive engravings, this work, first published in 1881, illuminates Arctic exploration in the region of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, north of the Russian mainland. Naval officer Albert Hastings Markham (1841–1918) summarises previous discoveries and voyages made in the region by various navigators from England, Russia, Norway and elsewhere. He goes on to give an account of his 1879 voyage aboard the Norwegian cutter Isbjörn, offering details of Arctic flora and fauna, topographical and oceanographic features, and navigational difficulties presented by ice. For those interested in the scientific aspects of the expedition, the appendices contain notes and lists, prepared by experts, drawing on the various botanical and zoological specimens that were collected. Also reissued in this series are Markham's A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay (1874), The Great Frozen Sea (1878) and Northward Ho! (1879). Book Arctic isbjörn Novaya Zemlya Cambridge University Press Arctic Hastings ENVELOPE(-154.167,-154.167,-85.567,-85.567) Markham ENVELOPE(-57.358,-57.358,-64.296,-64.296) Norway Cambridge |
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Enhanced by several attractive engravings, this work, first published in 1881, illuminates Arctic exploration in the region of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, north of the Russian mainland. Naval officer Albert Hastings Markham (1841–1918) summarises previous discoveries and voyages made in the region by various navigators from England, Russia, Norway and elsewhere. He goes on to give an account of his 1879 voyage aboard the Norwegian cutter Isbjörn, offering details of Arctic flora and fauna, topographical and oceanographic features, and navigational difficulties presented by ice. For those interested in the scientific aspects of the expedition, the appendices contain notes and lists, prepared by experts, drawing on the various botanical and zoological specimens that were collected. Also reissued in this series are Markham's A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay (1874), The Great Frozen Sea (1878) and Northward Ho! (1879). |
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A Polar Reconnaissance |
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