Shipwreck at Cape Flora - The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer (Paperback)

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. Travelling to the Arctic islands that Leigh Smith explored and crisscrossing England to uncover unpublished journals, diaries, and photographs, archaeologist and writer P.J. Capelotti details Leigh Smith's five major Arctic expeditions and places them within the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.

General

Imprint:	University of Calgary Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Series:	Northern Lights
Release date:	March 2013
First published:	February 2013
Authors:	P.J. Capelotti
Dimensions:	152 x 229 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	300
ISBN-13:	978-1-55238-705-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing > Expeditions Books > Biography > Historical, political & military Books > Travel > Travel writing > Expeditions
LSN:	1-55238-705-4
Barcode:	9781552387054

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