Book ID: CBB000101080

A Fabulous Kingdom: The Exploration of the Arctic (2001)

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Officer, Charles B. (Author)
Page, Jake (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: xii + 222 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

Description Covers the exploration of the Arctic from the earliest Norse sailors to 1990s tourist excursions.


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Review Oslund, Karen (2002) Review of "A Fabulous Kingdom: The Exploration of the Arctic". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 674). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Bloom, Lisa
Walsh, Stephen Anthony
Wråkberg, Urban
Speak, P.
Robinson, Michael Frederick
Robinson, Michael F.
Journals
Polar Record
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Archives of Natural History
Publishers
University of Wisconsin at Madison
University of Nebraska Press
University of Minnesota Press
University of Chicago Press
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Travel; exploration
Scientific expeditions
Science and culture
Biographies
Exhibits
Museums
People
Mawson, Douglas
Scott, Robert Falcon
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
Peary, Robert Edwin
Flynn, John
Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sébastien Cézar
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Polar regions
United States
Norway
Australia
Adriatic sea
Antarctica
Institutions
Habsburg, House of
Royal Society of London
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