Shipwreck at Cape Flora : : the expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's forgotten Arctic explorer / / P.J.Capelotti

"Benjamin 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....

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Superior document:Northern Lights Series, 16
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Place / Publishing House:Calgary, Alberta : : University of Calgary Press,, 2013.
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
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Series:Northern lights series (Calgary, Alta.) ; 16.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxix, 269 pages) :; illustrations, maps, photographs
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Shipwreck at Cape Flora : the expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's forgotten Arctic explorer / P.J.Capelotti
Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press, 2013.
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Northern Lights Series, 1925-2943 ; 16
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Benjamin 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 Traveling to the Arctic islands that Leigh Smith explored and crisscrossing England to uncover unpublished journals, diaries, and photographs, archaeologist and writer P.J. Capelotti details Leigh Smith's five major Arctic expeditions and places them within the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."--Publisher's description.
Also available in print form.
English
Smith, Benjamin Leigh, 1828-1913.
Geography Exploration.
Explorers Great Britain Biography.
Arctic regions Discovery and exploration British History 19th century.
Arctic regions Discovery and exploration 19th century.
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