
A Polar Reconnaissance
Being the Voyage of the Isbjoern to Novaya Zemlya in 1879
Albert Hastings Markham(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 17. April 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
398 pages
978-1-108-07194-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 Isbjoern, 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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
6 Plates, black and white; 2 Maps; 4 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
560 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-07194-9 (9781108071949)
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Content
Preface; 1. Introductory; 2. Early English voyages to the north-east; 3. Early Dutch voyages to the north-east; 4. Russian discoveries in Novaya Zemlya; 5. Norwegian explorers in Novaya Zemlya; 6. Austro-Hungarian, Swedish, and Dutch expeditions in modern times; 7. The Isbjoern; 8. First days at sea; 9. Nameless bay; 10. The Matyushin Shar; 11. First attempt to push north frustrated; 12. The Kara sea; 13. Baffled in the Kara sea; 14. Meeting with the 'Willem Barents'; 15. Northward ho! and homeward bound; 16. Valedictory; Appendices; Index.