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Shipwreck at Cape Flora : the expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's forgotten Arctic explorer / P.J. Capelotti.

Title
Shipwreck at Cape Flora : the expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's forgotten Arctic explorer / P.J. Capelotti.
Author
Capelotti, P. J. (Peter Joseph), 1960-
Publication
Calgary : University of Calgary Press, c2013.

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Additional Authors
  • Arctic Institute of North America
  • Arctic Institute of North America, issuing body.
Description
xxix, 269 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Summary
Benjamin Leigh Smith discovered and named dozens of islands in the Arctic but published no account of his pioneering explorations. He refused public accolades and sent stand-ins to deliver the results of his work to scientific societies. Yet, the Royal Geographic Society's Sir Clements R Markham referred to him as a polar explorer of the first rank. Travelling to the Arctic islands that Leigh Smith explored and criss-crossing England to uncover unpublished journals, diaries, and photographs, archaeologist and writer P J Capelotti details Leigh Smith's five major Arctic expeditions and places them within the context of the great polar explorations in the nineteenth century.
Series Statement
Northern lights series, 1701-0004 ; 16
Uniform Title
Northern lights series (Calgary, Alta.) 16.
Subject
  • Smith, Benjamin Leigh, 1828-1913
  • 1800-1899
  • Explorers > Great Britain > Biography
  • Arctic regions > History > 19th century
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Issued also in electronic formats.
Issued By (note)
  • Co-published by: Arctic Institute of North America.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1 Benjamin Leigh Smith and His Times, 1828-1871 1 -- 2 Expedition One: Svalbard, 1871 51 -- 3 Expedition Two: Jan Mayen and Svalbard, 1872 77 -- 4 Expedition Three: Svalbard, 1873 97 -- 5 The Awakening to a New Life, 1874-1879 123 -- 6 Expedition Four: Franz Josef Land, 1880 151 -- 7 Expedition Five: Franz Josef Land, 1881-1882 173 -- 8 Benjamin Leigh Smith and His Times, 1883-1913 217.
ISBN
  • 9781552387054
  • 1552387054
OCLC
  • 825161154
  • SCSB-13267753
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library