Narrative of chief adventures and discoveries of arctic explorers during nineteenth century.

Narrative of chief adventures and discoveries of arctic explorers during the nineteenth century.

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Excerpt from Arctic Explorations and Discoveries During the Nineteenth Century: Being Detailed Accounts of the Several Expeditions to the North Seas, Both English and American, Conducted by Ross, Parry, Back, Franklin, M'clure, Dr. Kane, and Others; Including the Long and Fruitless Efforts and Failures in Search of Sir John Franklin In offering this account of Arctic explorations to the public in a new form, and with the narra tive continued from 18 57, where Dr. Smucker left Off, down to the year 1886, the publisher aims to present a history of discoveries in the Ice Zones during the present century more complete and interesting to the general reader than any other that can be found in asingle volume. Although the literature of Arctic adventure would form a library in itself, yet there is no other book which presents a continuous narrative of the various expeditions, from the beginning of the nine teenth century to the present time; and the vo luminous works which have been published by the different explorers cover detached periods and single expeditions, beside being drawn out to undue length by the personal experience or interests of the writers. It is believed that this compendious narrative gives all needful details, and omits no important discovery in the ice-belts - while no individual adventurer or commander is exalted at the expense of his forerunners or compeers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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