3 options
Shipwreck at Cape Flora : the expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's forgotten Arctic explorer / P.J. Capelotti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Capelotti, P. J. (Peter Joseph), 1960-
- Series:
- Northern lights series (Calgary, Alta.), 1701-0004 ; 16.
- Northern lights series, 1701-0004 ; 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smith, Benjamin Leigh, 1828-1913.
- Smith, Benjamin Leigh.
- Explorers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Explorers.
- Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--British--History--19th century.
- Arctic regions.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (302 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Calgary [Alta.] : University of Calgary Press, c2013 (Beaconsfield, Quebec :
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Mentioned in BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24281727Benjamin Leigh Smith discovered and named dozens of islands in the Arctic but published no account of his pioneering explorations. He refused public accolades and sent stand-ins to deliver the results of his work to scientific societies. Yet, the Royal Geographic Society's Sir Clements R. Markham referred to him as a polar explorer of the first rank.Traveling to the Arctic islands that Leigh Smith explored and crisscrossing England to uncover unpublished journals, diaries, and photographs, archaeologist and writer P. J. Capelotti details Leigh Smith's five major Arctic expeditions and places them within the context of the great polar explorations in the nineteenth century.
- Contents:
- 1. Benjamin Leigh Smith and His Times, 1828-1871
- 2. Expedition One: Svalbard, 1871
- 3. Expedition Two: Jan Mayen and Svalbard, 1872 4. Expedition Three: Svalbard, 1873
- 5. The Awakening to a New Life, 1874-1879
- 6 Expedition Four: Franz Josef Land, 1880
- 7. Expedition Five: Franz Josef Land, 1881-1882
- 8. Benjamin Leigh Smith and His Times, 1883-1913.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Co-published by: Arctic Institute of North America.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781552387122
- 1552387127
- 9781299316850
- 1299316859
- 9781552387139
- 1552387135
- OCLC:
- 825161155
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.