Northward Ho!: Including a Narrative of Captain Phipps's Expedition

ISBN-13: 9781108071444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 402 str.

Albert Hastings Markham

Opis

Originally published in 1879, this illustrated work by Albert Hastings Markham (1841 1918) opens with accounts of Arctic exploration from the sixth to the nineteenth centuries, including the expeditions led by Constantine John Phipps (1744 92), William Edward Parry (1790 1855) and George Nares (1831 1915). The journal of Thomas Floyd (c.1754 78), who served as midshipman under Phipps in 1773, comprises the most significant part of the work. Outlining the difficulties faced by an eighteenth-century expedition, ranging from encounters with wildlife to adverse weather conditions, Floyd's narrative is notable also for its inclusion of some early episodes in the career of Horatio Nelson, also a midshipman on the voyage. More than a dozen engravings enhance the work. Other publications by Markham, including A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay (1874) and The Great Frozen Sea (1878), are also reissued in this series."