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The North Georgia Gazette and Winter Chronicle (Paperback)
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The North Georgia Gazette and Winter Chronicle (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
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Alone, months of sailing separating them from home, in the polar
winter where the sun never rises, the two ships of Captain William
Parry's expedition lay encased in ice from November 1819 to March
1820. In order to fully chart the North-West Passage between the
Atlantic and the Pacific, it was necessary to overwinter in the
Arctic, something that no other British expedition had done before.
To boost morale in these uncomfortable circumstances, Captain
Edward Sabine (1788-1883), a senior scientist carrying out
measurements of natural phenomena, founded and edited a weekly
magazine, which ran for twenty-one issues and was made available to
the wider world in 1821. Offering jokes, poems, stories and thinly
disguised gossip, the members of the expedition contributed to the
magazine with enthusiasm (after having first thawed their ink).
This little book offers unique insight into what polar exploration
in the nineteenth century was actually like.
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