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Biblical References to Ice and Snow.
Bible. Translations from Revised Standard Version. New York: Nelson, 1952.
- Whalemen's Reading
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Sea of Glory: America’s Voyage of Discovery. The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842.
Philbrick, Nathaniel. New York: Viking, 2003.
- 1838-42 U.S. Exploring Expedition (Wilkes).
- Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
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p. 11, when in 1821 Charles Wilkes was assigned to the Franklin for a cruise to the Pacific: The Franklin proved to be just the ship for an officer of Wilkes’s interests. On the gun deck there was a library, and Wilkes, with the help of an assistant became the librarian.
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.
The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic expedition.
Alexander, Caroline. New York: Knopf, 1998.
- 1914-16 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (Shackleton on Endurance).
- Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
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A succinct and well-illustrated account of the epic voyage, though not without faults (e.g. she doesn’t have Cherry in Scott’s SP journey, there is no index, and citations are wholly inadequate). But she does use Hurley photographs to good effect.
Arctic Exploration in British Print Culture, 1818-1860.
Cavell, Janice. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008).
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain