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Before the Heroes Came: Antarctica in the 1890s Tapa dura - 1993
de T. H. Baughman
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Although the Antarctic ice pack and some off-shore islands had been sighted and even landed upon briefly as early as the 1820s, it was not until an eccentric Anglo-Norwegian explorer, Carsten E. Borchgrevink, went ashore in 1895 that a human set foot on the Antarctic continent. Borchgrevink, snubbed by the British establishment, had stolen a march on several planned competing expeditions from Germany and Scandinavia. Borchgrevink returned to Antarctica in 1899 with a party that was the first to winter over on the continent. Regrettably, bad weather and unscalable mountains limited their forays inland. Borchgrevink's survival was proof that with adequate supplies, the Antarctic winter was survivable, and that with a better geographic position, the enormous unknown of the continent could be investigated. Borchgrevink galvanized the British geographical authorities, who had come to consider polar exploration their exclusive province. Led by Sir Clements Markham of the Royal Geographic Society, the British keenly felt this blow to their national pride delivered by an explorer they regarded as an arrogant upstart. The RGS pushed forward with its plans, and a tragic competition to be the first to reach the South Pole was set in motion between the British and the Scandinavians. This work is an account of the first tentative human gropings in Antarctica, and concentrates on the coalescing of official and popular attitudes that later resulted in the polar races of Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen, which dominate the story of the "Heroic Era" of Antarctic exploration, from 1901 to 1922.
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- Título Before the Heroes Came: Antarctica in the 1890s
- Autor T. H. Baughman
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición First edition
- Páginas 160
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Ne
- Fecha de publicación December 1, 1993
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780803212282 / 0803212283
- Peso 1.01 libras (0.46 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.28 x 6.29 x 0.77 pulgadas (23.57 x 15.98 x 1.96 cm)
- Nivel de lectura 1400
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- Cultural Region: Arctic/Antarctic
- Library of Congress subjects Antarctica - Discovery and exploration
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 93001056
- Dewey Decimal Code 919.89
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