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Shipwreck at Cape Flora: the expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's forgotten Arctic explorer

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  • Publisher:
    University of Calgary Press, 2013
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Capelotti, P.J.
    Date:
    Created
    2013
    Summary:

    Mentioned in BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24281727 Benjamin Leigh Smith discovered and named dozens of islands in the Arctic but published no account of his pioneering explorations. He refused public accolades and sent stand-ins to deliver the results of his work to scientific societies. Yet, the Royal Geographic Society's Sir Clements R. Markham referred to him as a polar explorer of the first rank. Traveling to the Arctic islands that Leigh Smith explored and crisscrossing England to uncover unpublished journals, diaries, and photographs, archaeologist and writer P. J. Capelotti details Leigh Smith's five major Arctic expeditions and places them within the context of the great polar explorations in the nineteenth century.

    Genre:
    Biographies and autobiographies
    Sujets: Discovery and exploration, British | Explorers | Smith, Benjamin Leigh, 1828-1913
    Original Publisher: Calgary, University of Calgary Press
    Language(s): English