The Official Report of the Recent Arctic Expedition
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 ha...
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Cambridge University Press
2011
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139151641 |