Author: STAROKADOMSKIY, L.M.
Title: Charting The Russian Northern Sea Route. The Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition 1910-1915. Translated And Edited by William Barr.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xxxiv, 332; portrait frontispiece, 21 b/w plates, notes, glossary, bibliography, index, bound in original green cloth, title lettered in black on spine, black decoration on front board, dustjacket, a fine copy. Montreal; McGill-Queens University Press; (1976) This book presents for the first time in English the story of the last of the great ocean voyages of discovery. Long overshadowed by contemporary polar exploration, the achievement of the Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition (1910-15) was of major and lasting importance. The undertaking was a protracted one - five voyages were made by the Imperial Russian Navy icebreakers Taymyr and Vaygach in as many years . An unprecedented east-west traverse was completed from Bering Strait to the White Sea, and as important the discovery of the great Severnaya Zemlya Acchipelago.
Keywords: exploration Russian endeavors Artic Ocean Hydrographic expeditions maritime Siberia voyages cartography polar voyage discovery exploration arctic
Title: Charting The Russian Northern Sea Route. The Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition 1910-1915. Translated And Edited by William Barr.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xxxiv, 332; portrait frontispiece, 21 b/w plates, notes, glossary, bibliography, index, bound in original green cloth, title lettered in black on spine, black decoration on front board, dustjacket, a fine copy. Montreal; McGill-Queens University Press; (1976) This book presents for the first time in English the story of the last of the great ocean voyages of discovery. Long overshadowed by contemporary polar exploration, the achievement of the Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition (1910-15) was of major and lasting importance. The undertaking was a protracted one - five voyages were made by the Imperial Russian Navy icebreakers Taymyr and Vaygach in as many years . An unprecedented east-west traverse was completed from Bering Strait to the White Sea, and as important the discovery of the great Severnaya Zemlya Acchipelago.
Keywords: exploration Russian endeavors Artic Ocean Hydrographic expeditions maritime Siberia voyages cartography polar voyage discovery exploration arctic
Price: AUD 50.00 = appr. US$ 34.59 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 113170
- Book number: 113170