A Polar Reconnaissance: Being the Voyage of the Isbjörn to Novaya Zemlya in 1879

Albert Hastings Markham

doi:10.1017/CBO9781107296992

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Being the Voyage of the Isbjörn to Novaya Zemlya in 1879

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Albert Hastings Markham

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: November 2014
Print publication year:: 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781107296992
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107296992

Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
Subjects:: Geography, Historical Geography

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Enhanced by several attractive engravings, this work, first published in 1881, illuminates Arctic exploration in the region of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, north of the Russian mainland. Naval officer Albert Hastings Markham (1841–1918) summarises previous discoveries and voyages made in the region by various navigators from England, Russia, Norway and elsewhere. He goes on to give an account of his 1879 voyage aboard the Norwegian cutter Isbjörn, offering details of Arctic flora and fauna, topographical and oceanographic features, and navigational difficulties presented by ice. For those interested in the scientific aspects of the expedition, the appendices contain notes and lists, prepared by experts, drawing on the various botanical and zoological specimens that were collected. Also reissued in this series are Markham's A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay (1874), The Great Frozen Sea (1878) and Northward Ho! (1879).

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Being the Voyage of the Isbjörn to Novaya Zemlya in 1879

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

PREFACE
pp vii-xiv

Contents
pp xv-xvi

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
pp xvii-xviii

CHAPTER I - INTRODUCTORY
pp 1-8

CHAPTER II - EARLY ENGLISH. VOYAGES TO THE NORTH-EAST
pp 9-21

CHAPTER III - EARLY DUTCH VOYAGES TO THE NORTH-EAST
pp 22-38

CHAPTER IV - RUSSIAN DISCOVERIES IN NOVAYA ZEMLYA
pp 39-64

CHAPTER V - NORWEGIAN EXPLORERS IN NOVAYA ZEMLYA. THE ROSENTHAL VOYAGES AND ENGLISH YACHTSMEN
pp 65-76

CHAPTER VI - AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN, SWEDISH, AND DUTCH EXPEDITIONS IN MODERN TIMES
pp 77-95

CHAPTER VII - THE “ISBJÖRN”
pp 96-118

CHAPTER VIII - FIRST DAYS AT SEA
pp 119-133

CHAPTER IX - NAMELESS BAY
pp 134-158

CHAPTER X - THE MATYUSHIN SHAR
pp 159-179

CHAPTER XI - FIRST ATTEMPT TO PUSH NORTH FRUSTRATED
pp 180-206

CHAPTER XII - THE KARA SEA
pp 207-229

CHAPTER XIII - BAFFLED IN THE KARA SEA
pp 230-250

CHAPTER XIV - MEETING WITH THE “WILLEM BARENTS”
pp 251-277

CHAPTER XV - NORTHWARD HO! AND HOMEWARD BOUND
pp 278-303

CHAPTER XVI - VALEDICTORY
pp 304-322

APPENDICES

A - –NOTES ON THE PLANTS COLLECTED
pp 323-332

B - –NOTE ON THE BIRDS COLLECTED
pp 333-339

C - –NOTE ON THE CRUSTACEA COLLECTED
pp 339-343

D - –LIST OF MOLLUSCA COLLECTED
pp 344-345

E - –LIST OF THE ECHINODERMATA COLLECTED
pp 345-346

F - –NOTES ON RHIZOPODA
pp 346-348

G - –REMARKS ON THE ROCKS AND FOSSILS
pp 349-350

H - –NOTES ON THE INSECTS COLLECTED
pp 350-352

I - –NOTE ON THE FISHES
pp 353-354

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