Benjamin Leigh Smith discovered and named dozens of islands in the Arctic but published no account of his pioneering explorations. He refused public accolades and sent stand-ins to deliver the results of his work to scientific societies. Yet, the Royal Geographic Society's Sir Clements R. Markh...
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ftdoab:oai:directory.doabooks.org:20.500.12854/90053 2023-05-15T14:38:50+02:00 2022-07-19T04:04:40Z image/jpeg https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57474 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12657/57474 https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57474/1/9781552387122.pdf eng eng University of Calgary Press Northern Lights ONIX_20220718_9781552387122_51 19252943 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57474 https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57474/1/9781552387122.pdf 2022 ftdoab https://doi.org/20.500.12657/57474 2022-07-31T00:20:49Z Benjamin Leigh Smith discovered and named dozens of islands in the Arctic but published no account of his pioneering explorations. He refused public accolades and sent stand-ins to deliver the results of his work to scientific societies. Yet, the Royal Geographic Society's Sir Clements R. Markham referred to him as a polar explorer of the first rank. Traveling to the Arctic islands that Leigh Smith explored and crisscrossing England to uncover unpublished journals, diaries, and photographs, archaeologist and writer P. J. Capelotti details Leigh Smith's five major Arctic expeditions and places them within the context of the great polar explorations in the nineteenth century. Other/Unknown Material Arctic Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) Arctic Markham ENVELOPE(-57.358,-57.358,-64.296,-64.296) |
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Benjamin Leigh Smith discovered and named dozens of islands in the Arctic but published no account of his pioneering explorations. He refused public accolades and sent stand-ins to deliver the results of his work to scientific societies. Yet, the Royal Geographic Society's Sir Clements R. Markham referred to him as a polar explorer of the first rank. Traveling to the Arctic islands that Leigh Smith explored and crisscrossing England to uncover unpublished journals, diaries, and photographs, archaeologist and writer P. J. Capelotti details Leigh Smith's five major Arctic expeditions and places them within the context of the great polar explorations in the nineteenth century. |
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