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The Official Report of the Recent Arctic Expedition George S. Nares

The Official Report of the Recent Arctic Expedition By George S. Nares

The Official Report of the Recent Arctic Expedition by George S. Nares


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This 1876 publication records the voyage of the British ships Alert and Discovery towards the North Pole in 1875-6. Containing striking descriptions of treacherous waters and icy landscapes, together with details of the logistical complexities and human costs of the expedition, it documents an unprecedented achievement in Polar exploration.

The Official Report of the Recent Arctic Expedition Summary

The Official Report of the Recent Arctic Expedition by George S. Nares

In 1875, Sir George Strong Nares (1831-1915) set out for the Arctic in command of the ships Alert and Discovery, hoping to reach the North Pole and find the rumoured Open Polar Sea that surrounded it. The Official Report, published in 1876, recounts his fifteenth-month journey in lively and often harrowing detail, describing freezing temperatures, frostbite and scurvy, vast, uncharted landscapes and treacherous, ice-choked waterways. It records the progress of the British Arctic Expedition with the scrupulous detail of a ship's log, providing valuable insights into the logistical complexities and human costs of Polar exploration. 'We had arrived on the shore of the Arctic Ocean finding it exactly the opposite of an Open Polar Sea', Nares notes ruefully. A two-volume popular account of the voyage, published in 1878, is also reissued in this series.

Table of Contents

Report of the Arctic Expedition, 27th October 1876.

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NLS9781108041539
9781108041539
1108041531
The Official Report of the Recent Arctic Expedition by George S. Nares
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2011-12-22
106
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