A Thousand Days in the Arctic
Volume 1
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Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
- Author: Frederick G. Jackson
- Date Published: December 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108041645
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In 1897, the triumphant return of the Jackson–Harmsworth Arctic expedition revived widespread enthusiasm for Polar exploration. Within days of the expedition's arrival in London, newspapers ranging from the Boy's Own Paper to the Graphic were full of articles relating to the endeavours and findings of this intrepid undertaking. The demand for information did not abate and, in 1899, this two-volume account by Frederick G. Jackson (1860–1938) of his travels in Franz Josef Land was published to wide acclaim. Hailed by The Morning Post as 'a record of solid achievement accomplished by dint of steady perseverance in the face of hardship and difficulty', Jackson's journal describes a forbidding terrain of ice and snow. Illustrated by maps and numerous anthropological and zoological images, Volume 1 opens with the voyage north and goes on to recount the team's accommodation - a wooden hut named 'Elmwood' - bear-hunts, and arduous but inspirational journeys by sledge.
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- Date Published: December 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108041645
- length: 578 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 33 mm
- weight: 0.84kg
- contains: 80 b/w illus. 2 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Author's note
1. Introduction
2. Our start
3. Winter darkness, dreary days
4. Our Arctic hut
5. A Christmas festival, 1895
6. Mother Bear's nursery
7. A tough bit for 'Mr Bear'
8. Daylight returns
9. The first sledge journey, 1895
10. Second sledge journey, 1895
11. Snow morasses, discovery of Queen Victoria Sea
12. A successful race against time
13. Back from the sledge journey, 1895
14. Driven off the coast - nearly lost
15. A spectral sky and phantom ship
16. The storm subsides
17. Back at the hut
18. The gun in Franz Josef Land and game list
19. Preparing for our second winter
20. We suffer severe losses
21. A nasty climb in the dark.-
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