Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea during 18756 in HM Sh... - 9781108041560

Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea during 18756 in HM Ships Alert and DiscoveryWith Notes on the Natural History\nAuthor(s): George Nares, H. W. Feilden\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108041560, 978-1108041560\nSynopsis\nThe British Vice-Admiral and Arctic explorer Sir George Nares [tel] received several honours for his contributions to science, including a fellowship of the Royal Society. He attended the Royal Naval School, New Cross, before joining the service in 1845. After a varied early career and the successful Challenger scientific expedition in the Atlantic, he took command of the British Arctic expedition of 18756. The expedition's attempt, led by second-in-command, Albert Markham, to reach the North Pole by dog-sled set a new record for farthest distance north achieved. This book, the second of Nares' popular two-volume account of the journey, published in 1878, describes the p.