Smith Sound and its Exploration.

Bessells, Emil. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute X 3 (1884) p. 333-447.
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p. 335, John Barrow: the English geographer, who credited only those discoveries that were made by officers of the Royal Navy.

From Pole to Pole: The Life of Quintin Riley, 1905-1980.

Riley, Jonathan P. Bluntisham, UK: Bluntisham Books, 1989.
  • 1920-22 British Graham Land Expedition.
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Quinton Riley was the Quarter Master of the British Graham Land Expedition, and this biography includes one full chapter on his participation in the BGLE (p. 55-95). He is described as a good-natured but argumentative colleague, of firm religious convictions, and a valuable member of the expedition staff.

A Very Gallant Gentleman.

Bernacchi, Louis Charles. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1935 [first published 1933] See supra, p. 174.
  • 1910-14 British National Antarctic Expedition (Scott on Terra Nova).
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Bull, Colin. Email message to David Stam, August 31, 2005:

The Hookers of Kew 1785-1911.

Allan, Mea. London: Michael Joseph, 1967.
  • 1839-42 British Antarctic Expedition (James Clark Ross/Terror and Erebus).
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Joseph Hooker was part of the Erebus and Terror Antarctic expedition led by James Clark Ross, an expedition poorly equipped for scientific investigation:

James Eight and the Palmer-Pendleton Expedition of 1829-1831,

Bertrand, Kenneth J. Chapter 9 in Americans in Antarctica, 1775-1948. New York: American Geographical Society, 1971, p. 144-58.
  • 1829-30 First Preliminary US Exploring Expedition (Annawan and Seraph with Captains Nathaniel Palmer and Benjamin Pendleton).
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p. 146-47: The scientific program of the expedition was sponsored by the Lyceum for Natural History of the City of New York. Newspapers encouraged private citizens to lend books, charts, and instruments to the expedition, and when the Annawan sailed it was said to have on board a fine collection of instruments and several hundred books.

A History of the Whale Fisheries, from the Basque Fisheries of the Tenth Century to the Hunting of the Finner Whale at the Present Date.

Jenkins, J. T. London: Witherby, 1921.
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p. 178, [don’t know that this is relevant but worth checking—books here may refer to account books ]: … as they claim to know the procedure of the former company having their in their possession, they are first in the field and "that the design manifestly tending to the increase of nayjgation, and the benefit of all His Majesty's subjects, it is humbly hoped, will receive countenance and encouragement."

Ned Myers; Or, A Life before the Mast.

Cooper, James Fenimore. New Edition. Edited by J. Fenimore Cooper. Two Volumes. New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1854. [First published in 1840.].
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An 1840 Cooper work in which he served as amanuensis in telling the narrative of Ned Evans attempting to “lay before the world the experience of a common seaman,” such as Cooper himself knew, and which follows that pattern of degradation and conversion. I confess to an early impression that the work was more novel than narrative, and it certainly is an hybrid genre of edited narrative, or a semi-imaginary reconstruction. The repeated cycle of debauchment does become tiresome.

Jack in the Forecastle; or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale.

Sleeper, John Sherburne. Boston: Crosby, Nicholas, Lee, 1860.
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Sleeper was an American sailor, journalist, and politician who was Mayor of Roxbury, Mass., and a member of the Mass. Senate. As a novelist he used the pseudonym of Mawser Martingale, and I suspect this book is autobiographical fiction. He went to sea as a cabin boy in 1809, age 15, and the book is about his first command in the merchant marine in 1821.

Travels through the Interior Parts of North-

Carver, Jonathan.
  • 1766-68 British Overland Journey to North America (led by Jonathan Carver).
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America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768. (London: Printed for the Author; And Sold by J. Walter, 1778).

Chances for Arctic Survival: Greely’s Expedition Revisited.

Wesławski, Jan Marcin, and Joanna Legeżyńska. Arctic 55 4 (Dec. 2002) 373-79.
  • 1881-84 International Physical Year US Expedition to Lady Franklin Bay (led by Adolphus Greely).
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The caloric requirements of the expedition survivors could not have been met by their available resources exclusive of cannibalism.