The lands of silence
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Sir Clements R. Markham (1830–1916) had succumbed to smoke after accidentally igniting his bedclothes while reading by candlelight; the task of completing this history therefore fell to his friend and fellow geographer F. H. H. Guillemard (1852–1933), who published it in 1921. In the course of his long career, Markham had sailed to the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin, jeopardised his job in the India Office by joining the British attempt to reach the North Pole in 1875–6, and served as president of the Royal Geographical Society, sending Robert Falcon Scott on his first expedition to Ant...
Chapters (622)
- THE LANDS OF SILENCE
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
- PART I
- CHAPTER I THE ARCTIC REGIONS
- CHAPTER II ICE AND ICEBERGS
- Antarctic Ice.
- CHAPTER III TRIBES AROUND THE POLE
- CHAPTER IV ULTIMA THULE
- CHAPTER V FIRST CROSSING OF THE THRESHOLD
- CHAPTER VI THE NORSEMEN IN GREENLAND
- CHAPTER VII NICHOLAS OF LYNN. ZENO. MEDIEVAL NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS
- CHAPTER VIII FIRST ENGLISH VOYAGES TO THE NORTH-EAST. WILLOUGHBY. CHANCELLOR. BURROUGH. PET
- CHAPTER IX BARENTSZ. LINSCHOTEN. DE VEER
- CHAPTER X SIR MARTIN FROBISHER
- CHAPTER XI JOHN DAVIS
- CHAPTER XII THE MERCHANT ADVENTURERS AND RICHARD HAKLUYT
- CHAPTER XIII GREENLAND VOYAGE OF HALL AND BAFFIN
- CHAPTER XIV EARLY SPITSBERGEN VOYAGES
- CHAPTER XV EARLY VOYAGES TO HUDSON’S BAY Knight—Hudson—Button and the North-West Company
- CHAPTER XVI WILLIAM BAFFIN
- CHAPTER XVII JENS ERIKSEN MUNK. FOXE AND JAMES. WOOD
- CHAPTER XVIII HANS EGEDE AND DANISH GREENLAND
- CHAPTER XIX THE HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY. HEARNE AND MACKENZIE, COOK AND PHIPPS
- CHAPTER XX RUSSIAN ARCTIC DISCOVERIES
- CHAPTER XXI THE BRITISH WHALE FISHERY AND THE SCORESBYS
- CHAPTER XXII BUCHAN AND ROSS
- CHAPTER XXIII PARRY AND HIS SCHOOL
- CHAPTER XXIV DISCOVERY OF THE NORTH COAST OF AMERICA. FRANKLIN—RICHARDSON—BACK—DEASE—SIMPSON—RAE
- CHAPTER XXV JOHN ROSS, JAMES ROSS, AND THE NORTH MAGNETIC POLE
- CHAPTER XXVI THE FRANKLIN EXPEDITION
- CHAPTER XXVII THE SEARCH FOR FRANKLIN. I.
- CHAPTER XXVIII THE SEARCH FOR FRANKLIN. II.
- CHAPTER XXIX DISCOVERY OF THE FATE OF FRANKLIN
- CHAPTER XXX THE EAST COAST OF GREENLAND. SCORESBY—CLAVERING—GRAAH—KOLDEWEY
- CHAPTER XXXI SPITSBERGEN EXPEDITIONS BEFORE 1872
- CHAPTER XXXII FRANZ JOSEF LAND AND ITS EXPLORERS
- CHAPTER XXXIII THE ROUTE BY SMITH SOUND. KANE—HAYES—HALL—NARES—MARKHAM
- CHAPTER XXXIV SIR ALLEN YOUNG AND THE PANDORA. AMUNDSEN AND THE NORTH WEST PASSAGE.
- CHAPTER XXXV WEYPRECHT’S PLAN FOR SYNCHRONOUS OBSERVATIONS. THE GREELY EXPEDITION
- CHAPTER XXXVI THE NORTH EAST PASSAGE — NORDENSKIÖLD — WIGGINS — DE LONG
- CHAPTER XXXVII GREENLAND AND ITS INLAND ICE—NORDENSKIÖLD, NANSEN, PEARY
- CHAPTER XXXVIII THE TRANS-POLAR DRIFT. NANSEN AND THE VOYAGE OF THE FRAM
- CHAPTER XXXIX THE PARRY ARCHIPELAGO—SVERDRUP
- CHAPTER XL ATTEMPTS TO REACH THE NORTH POLE. CAGNI—COOK—PEARY
- CHAPTER XLI KOOLEMANS BEYNEN AND THE VOYAGES OF THE WILLEM BARENTSZ. SIR MARTIN CONWAY AND SPITSBERGEN. CAPTAIN BERNIER AND CANADIAN ARCTIC LANDS
- CHAPTER XLII EAST COAST OF GREENLAND—DANISH EXPEDITIONS
- CHAPTER XLIII LATER GREENLAND EXPLORATIONS—MIKKELSEN, RASMUSSEN—KOCH
- Mikkelsen
- Rasmussen
- Koch
- CHAPTER XLIV CONCLUSION
- PART II THE ANTARCTIC REGIONS
- CHAPTER XLV THE GREAT SOUTHERN CONTINENT
- CHAPTER XLVI CAPTAIN COOK—BELLINGSHAUSEN
- CHAPTER XLVII THE SOUTH SHETLANDS. FOSTER—WEDDELL
- CHAPTER XLVIII ENDERBY AND HIS CAPTAINS: BISCOE—KEMPE—BALLENY
- CHAPTER XLIX DUMONT D’URVILLE AND WILKES
- CHAPTER L FIRST ANTARCTIC VOYAGE OF SIR JAMES ROSS
- CHAPTER LI SECOND ANTARCTIC VOYAGE OF SIR JAMES ROSS
- CHAPTER LII THIRD ANTARCTIC VOYAGE OF SIR JAMES ROSS
- CHAPTER LIII ANTARCTIC OCEANOGRAPHY
- CHAPTER LIV REVIVAL OF ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION
- CHAPTER LV PRIVATE EXPEDITIONS—BORCHGREVINK—GERLACHE—NORDENSKIÖLD—BRUCE—DRYGALSKI—CHARCOT—FILCHNER
- Borchgrevink
- De Gerlache
- Nordenskiöld
- Bruce
- Drygalski
- Charcot
- Filchner
- CHAPTER LVI PREPARATIONS FOR THE SOCIETIES’ ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION
- CHAPTER LVII THE SOCIETIES’ ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION First Year.
- CHAPTER LVIII THE SOCIETIES’ ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION The Morning
- CHAPTER LIX THE SOCIETIES’ ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION Second Year.
- CHAPTER LX SHACKLETON’S ATTEMPT TO REACH THE POLE
- CHAPTER LXI AMUNDSEN’S JOURNEY TO THE SOUTH POLE
- CHAPTER LXII MAWSON’S EXPEDITION
- CHAPTER LXIII CAPTAIN SCOTT’S LAST EXPEDITION I.
- CHAPTER LXIV CAPTAIN SCOTT’S LAST EXPEDITION The End
- CHAPTER LXV REMAINING ANTARCTIC WORK
- CHRONOLOGY OF POLAR VOYAGES AND EXPLORATIONS
- I. Arctic
- II. Antarctic (including near approaches to Antarctic Circle)
- BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY OF POLAR VOYAGES AND TRAVELS
- II. Antarctic
- FOOTNOTES
- INDEX
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