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The North Georgia Gazette and Winter Chronicle.

The North Georgia Gazette and Winter Chronicle.

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電子版あり 大学・学術機関向け電子ブック(eBook)ISBN 9781139236591
著者・編者Sabine, Edward (ed.),
シリーズ (Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration)
出版社 (Cambridge University Press, UK)
出版年月2012
ページ数150 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<A03-17993>

解説

Alone, months of sailing separating them from home, in the polar winter where the sun never rises, the two ships of Captain William Parry's expedition lay encased in ice from November 1819 to March 1820. In order to fully chart the North-West Passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific, it was necessary to overwinter in the Arctic, something that no other British expedition had done before. To boost morale in these uncomfortable circumstances, Captain Edward Sabine (1788-1883), a senior scientist carrying out measurements of natural phenomena, founded and edited a weekly magazine, which ran for twenty-one issues and was made available to the wider world in 1821. Offering jokes, poems, stories and thinly disguised gossip, the members of the expedition contributed to the magazine with enthusiasm (after having first thawed their ink). This little book offers unique insight into what polar exploration in the nineteenth century was actually like.