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To the Arctic! : the story of Northern exploration from earliest times to the present
- Title
- To the Arctic! : the story of Northern exploration from earliest times to the present / Jeannette Mirsky ; with an introduction by Vilhjalmur Stefansson.
- Author
- Mirsky, Jeannette, 1903-1987
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1970.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 99-917 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962
- Description
- xxv, 334, xviii pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, maps; 24 cm
- Uniform Title
- To the North!
- Alternative Title
- To the North!
- Subjects
- Note
- Original edition published in 1934 under titles To the North! (New York : Viking Press) and Northern conquest (London : Hamish Hamilton). This revised and expanded edition previously published in 1948. See: Arctic bibliography, v. 2 (1953), page 1717, entries 11526-11528.
- One map on folded leaf.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-334) and index.
- Contents
- Arctic scenery -- Quest and conquest -- Earliest recorded northern explorers : the Greeks and the Vikings -- The paths to Cathay -- The Dutch in the Arctic -- Smeerenburg and the whale-oil rush -- Hudson and his strait; Baffin and his bay -- Russia : the Great Northern Expedition -- After the Great Northern Expedition -- The British attack the Arctic -- Franklin's last voyage -- The mystery of the missing ships : the Franklin search -- The route to the North -- Franz Josef Land : the amazing drift of the Tegetthoff -- The international circumpolar stations : the Greely Expedition -- Laying a ghost : the Jeannette and the Fram -- Greenland -- The Northeast and Northwest Passages -- Jones Sound and Beaufort Sea -- To the Pole -- Flying the Arctic.
- Call Number
- JFE 99-917
- ISBN
- 0226531783
- 9780226531786
- 0226531791
- 9780226531793
- LCCN
- 72121386
- OCLC
- 112734
- Author
- Mirsky, Jeannette, 1903-1987, author.
- Title
- To the Arctic! : the story of Northern exploration from earliest times to the present / Jeannette Mirsky ; with an introduction by Vilhjalmur Stefansson.
- Publisher
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1970.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-334) and index.
- Added Author
- Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962, writer of introduction.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 99-917