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This account by three American authors of one thousand years of exploration in the Arctic regions, culminating in the voyage and loss of the U.S.S. Polaris in 1872, was published in 1874. The work, which is derived from many earlier published accounts, begins with a short and highly sentimental biography of the famous American explorer Elisha Kane (whose own works are reissued in this series). It continues with the geography of the Arctic regions, and the voyages of the Vikings and early modern explorers, describing the activities of the whaling fleets as well as the oceanographic and scientific researches of the naval expeditions from many countries seeking the North-West Passage. This is a useful and readable synthesis, which ends with a stirring appeal to the British Admiralty to resume the work of polar exploration which had gone into decline after the end of the official search for Sir John Franklin.

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• Full title: Frozen Zone and its Explorers
• Subtitle: A Comprehensive Record of Voyages, Travels, Discoveries, Adventures and Whale-Fishing in the Arctic Regions for One Thousand Years
• Author: W. L. Gage, A. C. Baldwin
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 886
• EAN: 9781108074889
• ISBN: 110807488X
• ID: 04769300
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 1116 g
• Dimensions: 217 × 217 × 55 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. July 2014

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