Buch

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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	Springer International Publishing
Buchreihe	:	Historical Geography and Geosciences
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	16. 06. 2021
Einband	:	Gebunden
Höhe	:	254 mm
Breite	:	178 mm
ISBN	:	9783030678791
Sprache	:	Englisch

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Autorinformation

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Dr. P.J. Capelotti is Professor of Anthropology and Research Associate at the Polar Center at Penn State University, in Abington, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. He is author or editor of over two dozen publications on history historical archaeology, including "By Airship to the North Pole: an archaeology of human exploration" (1999), "Sea Drift: Rafting Adventures in the Wake of Kon-Tiki" (2001), "Life and Death on the Greenland Patrol" (2005), "The Whaling Expedition of the Ulysses" (2010), "Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's forgotten Arctic explorer" (2013) and "The Greatest Show in the Arctic: the American exploration of Franz Josef Land, 1898-1905" (2016). 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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1. The 19th century exploration of Spitzbergen by Susan Barr.- 2. Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld and the Swedish expedition of 1872-73 by Urban Wråkberg.- 3. Axel W. Engvall and Leigh Smith’s rescue of Nordenskiöld by Anders Larsson.- 4. Alfred Eaton and the biological collections of Leigh Smith’s 1873 expedition by C.L. Devlin.- 5. Chermside's observations of marine mammals during a Spitzbergen hunt by C.L. Devlin.- 6. Chermside’s Arctic birds by Magnus Forsberg.- 7. The discovery of Chermside’s Spitzbergen photographs by Håkan Jorikson and Anders Larsson.- 8. Chermside’s Spitzbergen imagery, then and now by Tyrone Martinsson and Andreas Umbreit.- 9. Chermside’s diary of Leigh Smith’s 1873 expedition edited by P.J. Capelotti.

Deine Buchhandlung

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