Northward Ho!Cambridge University Press, 2014 M03 20 - 402 páginas 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. |
Contenido
CONTENTS | xliv |
CHAPTER I | 1 |
CHAPTER II | 44 |
CHAPTER III | 69 |
Revival of the subject of Polar exploration 69 Mr Daines Barring | 75 |
CHAPTER IV | 81 |
Mr Floyds preface and dedication 81 his narrative 83 appointed | 103 |
Last night on shore 106 pardonable trick played on the officials | 112 |
CHAPTER VI | 129 |
A MIDSHIPMANS NARRATIVE continued | 155 |
Ships put to sea 155 examining the edge of the ice 156 aggravating | 165 |
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