Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875–6 in HM Ships Alert and Discovery 2 Volume Set
Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875–6 in HM Ships Alert and Discovery 2 Volume Set
H. W. Feilden
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USDThe British Vice-Admiral and Arctic explorer Sir George Nares (1831–1915) received several honours for his contributions to science, including a fellowship of the Royal Society. He attended the Royal Naval School, New Cross, before joining the service in 1845. After a varied early career and the successful Challenger scientific expedition in the Atlantic, he took command of the British Arctic expedition of 1875–6. The expedition's attempt, led by second-in-command, Albert Markham, to reach the North Pole by dog-sled set a new record for the farthest distance north achieved. This two-volume popular account was published in 1878. Volume 1 describes the outward journey, including the discovery of the route later called Nares Strait. Volume 2 includes the perilous return journey, and extensive scientific appendices written by H. W. Feilden. Nares' official report, and Markham's own account, are also published in the Cambridge Library Collection.
Product details
December 2011Multiple copy pack
9781108041577
864 pages
216 × 140 × 50 mm
1.18kg
Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Preface
- List of the officers and men
- Sailing orders
- 1. Departure from Portsmouth
- 2. Cordial reception by the inspector
- 3. Leave Upernivik
- 4. Hartstene Bay
- 5. Re-enter Bay
- 6. Re-enter Smith Sound
- 7. Cape John Barrow
- 8. Cape Joseph Henry
- 9. Rawson's second start
- 10. Preparations for winter
- 11. Tidal registers
- 12. Geographical discoveries
- 13. Departure of the sledge parties
- 14. Increase of scurvy
- 15. Lieutenant Parr arrives on board Alert. Volume 2:
- 1. Anxiety about Aldrich's party
- 2. Decide to return south
- 3. Greenland party attacked with scurvy
- 4. Leave Floeberg Beach
- 5. Rich vegetation
- 6. We leave Smith Sound
- Appendix:
- 1. Ethnology H. W. Feilden
- 2. Mammalia H. W. Feilden
- 3. Ornithology H. W. Feilden
- 4. Ichthylogy Albert Günther
- 5. Mollusca Edgar A. Smith
- 6. Insecta and Arachnida Robert McLachlan
- 7. Crustacea Edward J. Miers
- 8. Annelida W. C. McIntosh
- 9. Echinodermata P. Martin Duncan
- 10. Polyzoa George Busk
- 11. Hydrozoa George J. Allman
- 12. Spongida H. J. Carter
- 13. Rhizopoda Reticularia Henry B. Brady
- 14. Botany Joseph D. Hooker
- 15. Geology C. E. de Rance, H. W. Feilden
- 16. Report on Petermann Glacier Richard W. Coppinger
- 17. Game list
- 18. Meteorological abstract
- 19. Abstract of results obtained from the tidal observations Samuel Haughton
- Index.
