p. 27: for the Discovery expedition, the Executive Committee of the RGS commissioned an Antarctic Manual, “an idea that hearkened back to the British Arctic expedition of 1875. Edited by George Murray, it dealt with fields of science to be investigated, and was well received.”
Pilgrims on the Ice: Robert Falcon Scott’s First Antarctic Expedition.
Baughman, T. H. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
- 1901-04 British National Antarctic Expedition (Scott aboard Discovery).
- Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
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Forty Years at Sea, or A Narrative of the Adventures of William Nevens.
Nevens, William. Portland, Me: Thurston, Fenley & Co., Printers, 1846.
- Whalemen's Reading
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Books appear fairly often in this narrative but little about them—just enough to indicate a fairly well-educated sailor, and the usual tribute to missionary linquists.
High Arctic: The Story of the British North Greenland Expedition.
Banks, Mike. London: Dent, 1957.
- 1952-54 British North Greenland Expedition (Commander James Simpson).
- Arctic Reading: Canada
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Captain Banks was in the Royal Marines and was Officer-in-Charge of a Weasel team, for this 1952 expedition.
Strong Men South.
Menster, William J. Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing, 1949.
- 1946-48 US Operation Highjump, Byrd’s Fourth Expedition to Little America (aboard USS Mount Olympus).
- Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
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A charming if a bit sanctimonious account of Operation Highjump by the chaplain of that 1947 expedition aboard USS Mount Olympus.
Voyages on the Yukon and Its Tributaries: A Narrative of Summer Travel in the Interior of Alaska.
Stuck, Hudson. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1917.
- 1913-18 US Private Journeys round the Coast and Interior of Alaska (Hudson Stuck, “Archbishop of the Yukon”).
- Arctic Reading: United States
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Stuck’s second book on Alaska, this mainly on the interior of the state based on summer travels, on the Inside Passage, the Yukon, and its tributaries.
A Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions in His Majesty’s Ships Hecla and Griper in the years 1819 & 1820.
Fisher, Alexander, Surgeon. (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme…, 1821.).
- 1819-20 British Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions (Edward Parry aboard Hecla and Griper).
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
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p. 142, Saturday. Oct lst 1819, long passage on scarcity of candles as darkness approached.
This Accursed Land.
Bickel, Lennard. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1977.
- 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition (Mawson).
- Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
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Bickel notes the absence of “heroics” in Home of the Blizzard, betrayed by his journals, however modest. An earlier version of Mawson’s Will, with some additional reading passages.
John Caldigate.
Trollope, Anthony. Introduction by R. C. Terry. London: The Folio Society, 1995. [First published in book form London: Chapman and Hall, 1879.].
- Maritime Reading
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A romantic evening second-class deck conversation between a disinherited young gentleman and a mysterious widow (Mrs Smith) in some form of trouble. The talk turns to books, starting with John Caldigate, the deprived gentleman:
Round the Horn before the Mast
Lubbock, Alfred Basil. New York: E. P. Dutton. 1907.
- 1899- American Schooner Voyage from San Francisco to Europe and Round the Horn aboard Royalshire.
- Maritime Reading
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p. 17, after a day of shoveling coal he and his new English friend cleaned up and went to the opera to see “Carmen.”
Race to the End: Amundsen, Scott, and the Attainment of the South Pole.
MacPhee, Ross D. E. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 2010.
- 1910-14 British National Antarctic Expedition (Scott on Terra Nova).
- Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
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A straightforward and well-written recounting of the Terra Nova expedition, intended as a companion volume to the AMNH’s 2010 centenary exhibition on Scott and Amundsen’s 1910 expeditions. MacPhee is a moderate critic of Scott’s deficiencies and Amundsen’s megalomania.
Biblical References to Ice and Snow.
Bible. Translations from Revised Standard Version. New York: Nelson, 1952.
- Whalemen's Reading
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ICE
New Light on Herman Melville’s Cruise in the Charles and Henry,
Heflin, William L. Historic Nantucket 22 (Oct 1974) p. 11-17.
- Whalemen's Reading
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Second section is on books aboard the ship Charles and Henry on which Melville shipped in 1840 for five years.
Ice and Esquimaux
Wasson, David A. Atlantic Monthly 14 (Dec. 1864) 728-34; 15 (Jan 1865)39-4; (Feb 1865) 201-12; (April 1865) 437-48; (May 1865) 564-72.
- Arctic Reading: Inuit and other indigenous people
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A series of articles on his 1864 voyage to Labrador on the Benjamin S. Wright with artist William Bradford. Passengers included a Colonel: A Greenland voyager, and better read than any man I have met in the literature of Northern travel.
Autobiographical manuscript
Ellsworth, Lincoln. in the AMNH [RB Collection].
- Antarctic Reading: General
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J-3] Typescript, with corrections in pencil by G.H.G. Pre-1935.
Shackleton Collection.
Rendell, Kenneth. Exhibited at Boston Museum of Science, March 2001.
- Heroic Age 1901-1921.
- Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
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Included in the exhibit were: Tennyson, Alfred Lord. Complete Works. Given in 1908 to Lt. Shackleton and the Officers of the Nimrod, and kept in officer’s mess; Swinburne Poems. Signed by Shackleton; South. First ed. Signed by Shackleton; Nautical Almanac. 1908. Shackleton’s copy from the Nimrod; Inscribed portrait of Shackleton; Signed 1914 solicitation letter for the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition; Signed photograph of Frank Hurley’s Winter Night; Cover illustration of South, presented to a Mrs. Pearson.