Three Years of Arctic Service: An account of the Lady Franklin Expedition of 1881-84 and the attainment of the farthest north - Couverture souple

Greely, Adolphus Washington

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3337323332 ISBN 13 : 9783337323332

Editeur : Hansebooks, 2017

Synopsis

Three Years of Arctic Service - An account of the Lady Franklin Expedition of 1881-84 and the attainment of the farthest north is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

It is ten years to-day since the survivors of the Lady Franklin Expedition were rescued, but interest in the story of their achievements and sufferings has not materially abated. The amount and character of their field and scientific work have received international reco- nition. Not only did the party attain the highest North of all time, which yet remains unsurpassed, but it determined the insularity of Greenland and discovered and traced scores of miles to the northward, the unknown shores of a new land. In physical science its work stands unique, as the only complete set of astronomical, magnetic, meteorological, pendulum, and tidal observations ever made in a very high latitude. These observations have enabled scientists to determine that the diurnal inequality of the tidal-wave conforms at Lady Franklin Bay to the sidereal day and to calculate for the Smith Sound region the secular variation of magnetic declination for past years, while, in the words of an acknowledged authority, by a series of pendulum observations, .. .far the best that have ever been made within the arctic circle, .. .its determination of gravity has been signally successful.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hansebooks
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3337323332
• ISBN 13: 9783337323332
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 758
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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