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Beyond Petsora Eastward - Two Summer Voyages to Novaya Zemlya and the Islands of Barents Sea (Paperback)
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Beyond Petsora Eastward - Two Summer Voyages to Novaya Zemlya and the Islands of Barents Sea (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
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In 1895, naturalists Henry J. Pearson (1859-1913) and Colonel H. W.
Feilden (1838-1921) set out to Norway for the first time, aiming to
study Arctic bird life, geology and botany. This book, first
published in 1899, is a collection of their diary entries and
papers. Full of humour and written almost novelistically, Pearson's
diary describes his ornithological findings and the other
noteworthy features of their voyages - he includes an anecdotal
account of the process of catching a whale, and describes their own
less than ideal ship, and the many difficulties of travelling in
the often inhospitable and little-explored North. In the second
half of the book, Feilden focuses on geology and botany in three
technical papers accompanied by his own photographs. A remarkable
account of an ambitious project, this book forms part of the
nineteenth-century genre of scientific travel literature, and
contains still-relevant information about the Arctic environment.
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