p. 1: On the night of January 30, 1916, a frail, white-haired gentleman retired to the bedroom of his house in London’s Eccleston Square. Once undressed, he swung expertly into a hammock and, as he had done for more than seven decades, read himself to sleep in traditional Royal Navy fashion: One hand held his book, the other a candle, exactly as he had learned as a midshipman in 1844.
Safe Return Doubtful: The Heroic Age of Polar Exploration.
Maxtone-Graham, John. New York: Scribner’s, 1988.
- Arctic Reading: General
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Writing the New World: Imaginary Voyages….
Fausset, David. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993.
- Arctic Reading: General
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p. 3, the exotic literature of Europe: … most clearly manifested in fiction about the regions that remained unknown the longest….their works, too, would finally be overtaken by history and supplanted by scientific descriptions of the material and social worlds. [Fausset’s examples are Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver, Poe, Lovecraft.]
[Review]. “Account of the Proceedings of H. M. S. Enterprise from Behring Strait to Cambridge Bay.” By Capt. R. Collinson.
Back, George. Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London 25 (1855) p. 194-206.
- 1848-59 The Franklin Search.
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
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The Enterprise and the Investigator set sail together in 1850 to establish the North Pacific arm of the Franklin Search, hoping to meet the by-then missing Franklin as he emerged from the Northwest Passage. It was not to be: the ships were separated after successfully navigating the straights of Magellan only to be met by high seas that separated them forever. This paper was communicated to the RGS by Sir George Back, from Captain Collinson of the Enterprise.
The Arctic Whalers.
Lubbock, Basil. Glasgow: Brown, Son and Ferguson, 1937.
- Whalemen's Reading
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An engaging history of Arctic whaling.
Discovery: The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition.
Byrd, Richard Evelyn. New York: Putnam’s, 1935.
- 1933-35 Byrd Second Antarctic Expedition.
- Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
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Byrd’ second expedition (1933-1935), again settled at the still usable Little America, emphasizing science and technology at considerable expense for a wholly private expedition. The technology included four airplanes, various tractors, and snowmobiles. The trip included Byrd’s near-fatal solitary period at Bolling Advanced Weather Base recounted in Alone.