Shipwreck at Cape Flora : The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer
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 re...
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ftopenresearchl:oai:biblioboard.com:ebad3eb1-7c83-45af-b1d6-bd8cc2bb6107 2023-05-15T14:35:56+02:00 Shipwreck at Cape Flora : The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer Capelotti, P. J. 2013-03-02T00:00:00Z application/pdf https://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/ebad3eb1-7c83-45af-b1d6-bd8cc2bb6107 https://openresearchlibrary.org/ext/api/media/ebad3eb1-7c83-45af-b1d6-bd8cc2bb6107/assets/external_content.pdf https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv6cfqj0 English eng University of Calgary Press https://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/ebad3eb1-7c83-45af-b1d6-bd8cc2bb6107 https://openresearchlibrary.org/ext/api/media/ebad3eb1-7c83-45af-b1d6-bd8cc2bb6107/assets/external_content.pdf ISBN:9781552387122 doi:https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv6cfqj0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode CC-BY-NC-ND MODID-c86684b5b33:University of Calgary Press History / Polar Regions bisacsh:HIS046000 Biography & Autobiography / Adventurers & Explorers bisacsh:BIO023000 BOOK 2013 ftopenresearchl https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv6cfqj0 2021-03-17T11:42:44Z 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 Traveling to the Arctic islands that Leigh Smith explored and crisscrossing England to uncover unpublished journals, diaries, and photographs, archaeologist and writer P. J. Capelotti details Leigh Smith’s five major Arctic expeditions and places them within the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. Book Arctic Open Research Library 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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