Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia

About this book

Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia is the only reference work that provides a comprehensive history of polar exploration from the ancient period through the present day. The author is a noted polar scholar and offers dramatic accounts of all major explorers and their expeditions together with separate exploration histories for specific islands regions and uncharted waters. He presents a wealth of fascinating information under a variety of subject entries including methods of transport myths achievements and record-breaking activities.By approaching polar exploration biographically geographically and topically Mills reveals a number of intriguing connections between the various explorers their patrons and times and the process of discovery in all areas of the polar regions. Furthermore he provides the reader with a clear understanding of the intellectual climate as well as the dominant social economic and political forces surroundi