|
Showing 1 - 5 of
5 matches in All Departments
The Norwegian businessman, shipping magnate and whaling
entrepreneur Henrik Johan Bull (1844-1930) led the first expedition
to make a confirmed landing on the Antarctic mainland, at Cape
Adare, in January 1895. Bull's highly readable account of the
expedition, published in 1896, reveals both the scientific and the
commercial motivations for early Antarctic exploration. His voyage,
financed by Svend Foyn, the inventor of the harpoon gun, was mainly
for commercial purposes, to investigate reports of right whales in
the Ross Sea. Bull, however, insisted on aiming for Antarctica,
despite encountering technical problems after the vessel ran
aground, and the preference of the ship's master for hunting seals
to make the trip financially profitable. A part-time scientist on
the expedition was Carsten Borchgrevink (1864-1934), who collected
the first specimens of vegetation from the Antarctic, and later,
with the Southern Cross expedition, set up the first winter base on
the continent.
Title: With Peary near the Pole ... Translated ... by H. J. Bull.
With maps.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL
collection includes books from the British Library digitised by
Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel
guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and
female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal
narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe,
Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Astrup, Eivind;
Bull, Henrik Johan.; 1898. 362 p.; 8 . 10460.d.25.
|
|