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Ten of the best adventures in frozen landscapes
Ten exciting stories feature famous explorers and their struggles to survive in frigid temperatures during dangerous polar expeditions.
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Making of an Explorer
Wilkins was originally seconded to Stefansson's Arctic Expedition for a year as its official photographer but circumstances forced him to stay in the Arctic for three years. He spent much of those extra two years in discussion with Stefansson, becoming his life-long friend. \"The Making of an Explorer\" describes Wilkins' successful expedition to Banks Island in 1914 in search of Stefansson and his subsequent relationship with Stefansson, his significant role and contribution as second-in-command of Stefansson's polar explorations over the next two years, his remarkable collection of films and photographs of the little-known Copper Eskimos in the Central Arctic, and his large but virtually unknown original collection of birds and mammals from Banks Island for the National Museum of Canada.
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May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth
May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth is a privileged
glimpse into the private correspondence of the officers and sailors
who set out in May 1845 on the Erebus and Terror
for Sir John Franklin's fateful expedition to the Arctic. The
letters of the crew and their correspondents begin with the
journey's inception and early planning, going on to recount the
ships' departure from the river Thames, their progress up the
eastern coast of Great Britain to Stromness in Orkney, and the
crew's exploits as far as the Whalefish Islands off the western
coast of Greenland, from where the ships forever departed the
society that sent them forth. As the realization dawned that
something was amiss, heartfelt letters to the missing were sent
with search expeditions; those letters, returned unread, tell
poignant stories of hope. Assembled completely and conclusively
from extensive archival research, including in far-flung family and
private collections, the correspondence allows the reader to peer
over the shoulders of these men, to experience their excitement and
anticipation, their foolhardiness, and their fears. The Franklin
expedition continues to excite enthusiasts and scholars worldwide.
May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth provides new insights
into the personalities of those on board, the significance of the
voyage as they saw it, and the dawning awareness of the possibility
that they would never return to British shores or their
families.
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Across the Arctic Ocean : original photographs from the last great polar journey
On 21st February 1968, Wally Herbert and his team of three companions and forty huskies set out from Point Barrow, Alaska, embarking on a journey that no one had ever attempted. Sixteen hard months later they finally set foot once more on solid land in Spitsbergen, having attained the North Pole and crossed the frozen Arctic Ocean for the first time. Travelling and living on ice that was in continual motion, sometimes buckling and breaking beneath them, they had endured exteme cold and months of winter darkness, and faced frequent encounters with polar bears. Though their achievement was overshadowed by the Apollo moon-landing, it stands today as one of the greatest expeditions of all time.
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From Barrow to Boothia
Over a three-year period from 1837 to 1939, operating from a base-camp at Fort Confidence on Great Bear Lake, the expedition achieved its goal. Despite serious problems with sea ice, Dease and Simpson, in some of the longest small-boat voyages in the history of the Arctic, mapped the remaining gaps in a model operation of efficient, economical, and safe exploration. Thomas Simpson's narrative, the standard source on the expedition, claimed the expedition's success for himself, stating \"Dease is a worthy, indolent, illiterate soul, and moves just as I give the impulse.\" In >From Barrow to Boothia William Barr shows that Dease's contribution was absolutely crucial to the expedition's success and makes Dease's sober, sensible, and modest account of the expedition available.
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Explore with John Franklin
Follows British explorer John Franklin on his voyage to discover the Northwest Passage.
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Nansen
Visionary, explorer, researcher, diplomat, humanist?Fridtjof Nansen was no ordinary man. Nansen was a dedicated scientist who made an outstanding contribution to marine zoology and oceanography, an audacious adventurer who pushed our knowledge of the Arctic to new frontiers, and an indefatigable savior of human beings displaced by conflict. As a young man Nansen led two successful polar expeditions and became a national hero, participating in the birth pangs of his country?Norway. As a respected international elder statesman he began a new career in 1919 by bringing home hundreds of thousands of prisoners-of-war from the remotest corners of Europe and Siberia. He created the \"Nansen Passport\" for stateless people under his responsibility and sought to give the Armenian people a secure homeland. For his efforts in favor of prisoners of war, famine relief and Russian refugees, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922.
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