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English Pronunciation In Use Intermediate Book With Answers And Downloadable Audio

by Mark Hancock

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 Understand and be understood in English with the best-selling English Pronunciation in Use.
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English Pronunciation In Use Elementary Book With Answers And Downloadable Audio

by Jonathan Marks

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 Understand and be understood in English with the best-selling English Pronunciation in Use.
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English Pronunciation In Use Advanced Book With Answers And Downloadable Audio

by Martin Hewings

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 Understand and be understood in English with the best-selling English Pronunciation in Use.
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Across Iceland - With Illustrations And Maps, And An Appendix On The Plants Collected

by William Bisiker

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 Published in 1902 and including maps, photographs and an extensive appendix compiled by expedition member and botanist Arthur William Hill on the island's plant life, this work gives an engaging account of the 1900 expedition across Iceland, around its northern coast and to the Faroes.
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Memorials Of The Sea: My Father - Being Records Of The Adventurous Life Of The Late William Scoresby, Esq. Of Whitby

by William Scoresby

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 This account, published in 1851, of William Scoresby (1760â€"1829), a prosperous captain and exceptional navigator in the Arctic whale-fisheries, was written by his son as one of his 'Memorials of the Sea'. William, Jr, a scientist and later a clergyman, had begun his career on his father's ships.
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The Lands Of Silence - A History Of Arctic And Antarctic Exploration

by Clements R. Markham

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 Sir Clements R. Markham (1830â€"1916) served as president of the Royal Geographical Society and knew the prominent polar explorers of his day. Completed by the Cambridge geographer F. H. H. Guillemard (1852â€"1933), Markham's illustrated history, published posthumously in 1921, draws on his extensive knowledge of Arctic and Antarctic expeditions.
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The Voyage Of The 'Why Not?' In The Antarctic - The Journal Of The Second French South Polar Expedition, 1908â€“1910

by Jean Charcot

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 This well-illustrated 1911 publication, translated from the French, vividly describes the hardships and satisfactions of Antarctic exploration and scientific research in the early twentieth century. The journal entries of expedition leader Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867â€"1936) record daily life aboard ship and out on the ice.
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The Arctic North-East And West Passage - Detectio Freti Hudsoni, Or Hessel Gerritsz' Collection Of Tracts By Himself, Massa And De Quir On The N.E. And W. Passage, Siberia And Australia

by Hessel Gerritsz

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 In the early seventeenth century, Hessel Gerritsz (c.1581â€"1632) compiled this remarkable collection of texts in Dutch relating to early exploration and trade routes. Published in 1878 by Frederik Muller (1817â€"81), the present work also includes Latin and English translations, and a helpful explanatory chapter.
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Through The First Antarctic Night, 1898â€“1899 - A Narrative Of The Voyage Of The Belgica Among Newly Discovered Lands And Over An Unknown Sea About The South Pole

by Frederick A. Cook

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 In this illustrated 1900 publication, Frederick Cook (1865â€"1940) gives a detailed account of his experiences on the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, the first to endure winter in the Antarctic. Cook, the ship's doctor, describes the challenging conditions in the Antarctic Circle, where the ship became ice-bound for almost a year.
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Dictionary Of Obsolete And Provincial English - Containing Words From The English Writers Previous To The Nineteenth Century Which Are No Longer In Use, Or Are Not Used In The Same Sense; And Words

by Thomas Wright

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 A respected folklorist and medievalist, Thomas Wright (1810â€"77) wrote prolifically on a wide range of subjects. This two-volume dictionary, published in 1857, aimed to help readers to navigate unfamiliar vocabulary in historical literature and gives definitions, etymologies and illustrative examples. Volume 1 covers letters Aâ€"F.
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The Zoology Of The Voyage Of H.M.S. Herald, Under The Command Of Captain Henry Kellet, R.N., C.B., During The Years 1845â€“51 - Fossil Mammals

by John Richardson

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 This well-illustrated 1854 work describes the zoological specimens collected by the survey ship H.M.S. Herald during its voyage into Arctic seas. The fauna collected include fossil mammals from the ice cliffs at Eschscholtz Bay, first discovered in 1816 by Otto von Kotzebue.
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Narrative Of The Exploring Expedition To The Rocky Mountains, In The Year 1842, And To Oregon And North California, In The Years 1843â€“44

by John Charles Fremont

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 Published together in 1846 for a British readership, these reports of two expeditions to the west of the Missouri River by the army officer John Charles FrÃ©mont (1813â€"90) shed light on exploration in nineteenth-century North America. The narrative provides much detail on the challenges faced by travellers at that time.
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Manual Of The Natural History, Geology, And Physics Of Greenland And The Neighbouring Regions - Prepared For The Use Of The Arctic Expedition Of 1875, Under The Direction Of The Arctic Committee Of The Royal Society

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 This 1875 manual, edited by geologist Thomas Rupert Jones (1819â€"1911), presents scientific data relating to Greenland and the Arctic. It was prepared for the British Arctic Expedition of the same year, aiming to inform and instruct the explorers. The expedition set a record for the furthest northern latitude attained.
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Life Of Admiral Sir Leopold Mcclintock, K.C.B., D.C.L., L.L.D., F.R.S., V.P.R.G.S.

by Clements R. Markham

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 This 1909 biography of polar explorer Sir Leopold McClintock (1819â€"1907) was published by Sir Clements Markham (1830â€"1916). McClintock took leave from the navy in 1854 to command a private expedition, financed by Lady Franklin, in search of her husband, and found confirmation that he had died in 1847.
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Report Of Board Of Officers To Consider An Expedition For The Relief Of Lieut. Greely And Party

by United States Board Of Officers

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 This official report, published in 1884, proposes a third expedition, much more carefully planned and equipped, to rescue any survivors of the 1881 Greely expedition to the Arctic, two previous relief efforts having failed. When they were eventually found, only seven of Greely's original team of twenty-five were still alive.
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The Voyages And Travels Of Captains Parry, Franklin, Ross, And Mr Belzoni - Forming An Interesting History Of The Manners, Customs, And Characters Of Various Nations

by John Frederick Dennett

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 Little is known about Captain John Frederick Dennett, who published this 1826 compilation of travel narratives. He was clearly familiar with developments in polar exploration, but he emphasises encounters with native peoples. As well as accounts of Arctic expeditions, he devotes a chapter to the activities of Belzoni in Egypt.
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The U.S. Grinnell Expedition In Search Of Sir John Franklin - A Personal Narrative

by Elisha Kent Kane

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 Dr Elisha Kane (1820â€"57) published this vivid account of an icebound polar winter in 1853. The Grinnell expedition was not successful in its aim of ascertaining the fate of Sir John Franklin, and Kane led a second attempt in 1853 while this book was in press.
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The German Arctic Expedition Of 1869â€“70 - And Narrative Of The Wreck Of The Hansa In The Ice

by Karl Koldewey

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 This account of a German Arctic expedition was published in 1873â€"4 by its commander, and in this English translation in 1874. The Germania and the Hansa embarked for Greenland in 1869. They became separated, and the book describes subsequent events, and the remarkable survival of one of the crews.
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The Life Of Sir Clements R. Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S.

by Albert Hastings Markham

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 This 1917 biography of his cousin and mentor was published by Albert H. Markham. Clements R. Markham (1830â€"1916) is remembered as a prolific writer, who, after an early career in the navy, spent his life in exploration, writing about earlier expeditions, and urging further research in the polar regions.
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Arctic Miscellanies - A Souvenir Of The Late Polar Search

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 Published in 1852, this book is a collection of articles written by naval officers and men while searching for the missing Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin. Often light-hearted and entertaining, the pieces were contributions, by Sir John Ross and others, to the Aurora Borealis, a ship's newspaper.
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Memorials Of The Sea - With 'The Franklin Expedition'

by William Scoresby

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 William Scoresby (1789â€"1857) was variously a whaler, scientist and clergyman. Published in 1835 and 1850, the two works reissued here highlight the perils of seafaring and Arctic exploration. The first is coloured by Scoresby's religious beliefs, while the second draws on his own Arctic experience and knowledge.
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Account Of The Russian Discoveries Between Asia And America - To Which Are Added, The Conquest Of Siberia, And The History Of The Transactions And Commerce Between Russia And China

by William Coxe

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 This work originated on a visit to St Petersburg, where the historian William Coxe (1748â€"1828) found up-to-date information on Russian exploration through Siberia, Kamchatka and the American Arctic, and on trade with China. The book, first published in 1780, is reissued here in the revised third edition of 1787.
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Journal Of A Voyage Of Discovery To The Arctic Regions In His Majesty'S Ships Hecla And Griper, In The Years 1819 And 1820

by Alexander Fisher

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 In 1821, Alexander Fisher (d.1838), ship's surgeon on H.M.S. Hecla, published this lively and detailed account of Parry's voyage in search of the North-West Passage in 1819â€"20. He describes the people and wildlife seen during the voyage, as well as providing technical details of latitude, weather and currents.
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The Frozen Zone And Its Explorers - A Comprehensive Record Of Voyages, Travels, Discoveries, Adventures And Whale-Fishing In The Arctic Regions For One Thousand Years

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 This American account of one thousand years of exploration in the Arctic was published in 1874. It remains a readable synthesis, which ends with an appeal to the British Admiralty to resume the work of polar exploration which had gone into decline after the end of the search for Franklin.
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