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The Great Frozen Land (Bolshaia Zemelskija Tundra): Narrative of a Winter Journey across the Tundras and a Sojourn among the Samoyads: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration

Autor Frederick George Jackson Editat de Arthur Montefiore
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 apr 2012
Frederick George Jackson (1860–1938) set out on his expedition from Vaygach Island with two objectives: to test his equipment for a future voyage much further north, and to study the Samoyeds. Although his goals seemed straightforward, they proved more difficult than expected to achieve. After being left on the island ahead of schedule without most of his food supplies, and with no interpreter, he found that his principal bargaining tool was tea, and that many of the areas he had hoped to explore were too dangerous. This account of his experiences, first published in 1895, provides a glimpse into the seemingly insuperable difficulties of a nineteenth-century Arctic expedition, and the unflappable way in which Jackson dealt with them. Including notes on distraught lemmings, Samoyed customs, and the linguistic annotations of the editor, Arthur Montefiore, this entertaining book will interest historians and curious modern-day travellers alike.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781108048255
ISBN-10: 1108048250
Pagini: 334
Ilustrații: 46 b/w illus. 3 maps
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface; 1. Camping at Habarova; 2. Waigatz; 3. Among the Samoyads; 4. Across 'the great frozen land' (Bolshaia Zemelskija Tundra); 5. Across 'the great frozen land' continued; 6. Round the White Sea and through Lapland. Home; 7. A chapter on language; 8. Samoyad folk-tales; 9. Appendices: A. Notes on the ornithological results of Mr. Jackson's journey Joseph Russell Jeaffreson; B. Weather observations kept by F. G. Jackson; C. Topographical notes to accompany the map of the great tundra; D. The Jackson-Harmsworth Polar expedition: its object, method, and equipment; Index.

Descriere

First published in 1895, this is a first-hand account of the author's two-thousand-mile expedition across the Artic tundra.