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portada For Glory, Not Gold: Expeditions through Arctic Lands 1818-1876
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2025
Language
English
Pages
400
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
32.766 x 27.686 x 4.064 cm
ISBN13
9782080487919

For Glory, Not Gold: Expeditions through Arctic Lands 1818-1876

Hubert Sagnières (Author) · Rizzoli · Hardcover

For Glory, Not Gold: Expeditions through Arctic Lands 1818-1876 - Hubert Sagnières

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Synopsis "For Glory, Not Gold: Expeditions through Arctic Lands 1818-1876"

Travel to the North Pole remains the ultimate challenge for intrepid adventurers; this tome takes readers along on ten daring nineteenth-century expeditions through firsthand accounts and striking archival images.

This exceptional volume showcases ten major international arctic expeditions carried out between 1818 and 1875, tracing the journeys of intrepid explorers from the United States, England, Scotland, Ireland, and France. These courageous nautical pioneers braved icy conditions and the vast unknown in search of the coveted northern passage. Through text drawn from journals and travelogues, readers gain firsthand insight into fascinating figures—Sir Edward Parry, Sir John Ross, Sir John Franklin, Joseph René Bellot, John Rae, Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, Elisha Kent Kane, Charles Francis Hall, and Sir George Nares—as well as the epic expedition onboard the HMS Investigator. The beautifully produced and oversize volume features illustrations, engravings, maps, and rare documents from the author’s personal collection of rare books and source material. Above all, this tome serves as a reminder that beyond the purely commercial goals of the quest to create a northern trade route, the arctic and the North Pole have always fueled the imagination, inspiring the most extreme nineteenth-century expeditions by heroic explorers who were driven by an insatiable thirst for new territories.

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