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Record #203436:

Shipwreck at Cape Flora: the expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's forgotten Arctic explorer / P.J. Capelotti.

Title: Shipwreck at Cape Flora: the expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's forgotten Arctic explorer / P.J. Capelotti.
Author(s): Capelotti, P. J.
Date: 2013.
Publisher: Calgary: University of Calgary Press
Abstract: Biography of Benjamin Leigh Smith (1828-1913), detailing his five major Arctic expeditions and placing them within context of nineteenth-century polar exploration. Includes list of crew members of Eira during 1881-82 expedition; ornithological notes from 1881-82; lists of stores saved from Eira in 1881 and supplies loaded on to escape boats, June 1882.
Keywords: 629.12 -- Vessels: Eira.
91(091) -- Exploration, history.
92 -- Biographies: Leigh Smith, Benjamin.
93"187" -- 1870-1879.
93"188" -- 1880-1889.
X -- Biographies and obituaries.
(*3) -- Arctic regions.
(*32) -- Svalbard.
(*501) -- Russia (Federation).
(*527) -- Frantsa-Iosifa, Zemlya.
Location(s): SCO: SPRI-SHF: 92[Leigh Smith, B.][Cap-2013]
ISBN: 9781552387054
SPRI record no.: 203436

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876 ## ‡zReviewed by William Barr in Arctic, 2013, 66(3) :366-368; also by Nel Cane in Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 2013, 45(4) :616; and reviewed by Nikolas Sellheim in Polar Record, doi: 10.1017/S0032247413000661, published online 14 October 2013; also in Canada's History, 2014, 94(3) :62; also in Polar Geography, 2015, 38(2) :171-172
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