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oapen-20.500.12657-574742022-07-19T03:01:47Z Shipwreck at Cape Flora Capelotti, P. J. bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities 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 Traveling to the Arctic islands that Leigh Smith explored and crisscrossing England to uncover unpublished journals, diaries, and photographs, archaeologist and writer P. J. Capelotti details Leigh Smith's five major Arctic expeditions and places them within the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. 2022-07-18T11:54:26Z 2022-07-18T11:54:26Z 2013 book ONIX_20220718_9781552387122_51 19252943 9781552387122 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57474 eng Northern Lights application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781552387122.pdf University of Calgary Press 5c7afbd8-3329-4175-a51e-9949eb959527 9781552387122 300 Calgary open access
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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 Traveling to the Arctic islands that Leigh Smith explored and crisscrossing England to uncover unpublished journals, diaries, and photographs, archaeologist and writer P. J. Capelotti details Leigh Smith's five major Arctic expeditions and places them within the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.
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