Through the first Antarctic night, 1898-1899 : a narrative of the voyage of the "Belgica" among newly discovered lands and over an unknown sea about the South Pole /
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| Author / Creator: | Cook, Frederick A., 1865-1940, author. |
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| Imprint: | Montreal [Quebec] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [1980] Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2014. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, xv, 478 pages, 72 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11304723 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- New Introduction
- In and about Rio de Janeiro
- From Rio de Janeiro to Montevideo
- Organisation of the Expedition
- The Belgica, her Equipment, her Comforts and Discomforts
- Montevideo to Punta Arenas
- The Punta Arenas, the Southernmost Town
- From Punta Arenas to Ushuaia, through the Fuegian Channels
- A Race of Fuegian Giants
- Discoveries in a New World of Ice
- Discoveries in a New World of Ice (continued)
- From Datlcoland to Alexander Islands
- Across the Antarctic Circle- First Efforts to Penetrate the Pack
- Along the Edge of the Pack-Ice
- Over Unknown Waters into the Frozen Sea
- Helpless in a Hopeless Sea of Ice
- Bird's-Eye View of the Pack- Autumnal Tempests
- The Fading Days of Autumn
- The Autumn (continued) Work and Past-time
- The Fading Days of Autumn (continued)
- The Days of Twilight Preceding the Long Night
- The South Polar Night
- Departure of the Susn
- The South Polar Night (continued) Days of Discontentment
- The South Polar Night (continued) The Death of Danco
- The South Polar Night (continued) Midnight to Dawn
- Spring-Sunrise-Twilight of Dawn
- The Spring (continued) Return of Light- A Sledge Journey
- Summer
- Summer (continued)
- Freed from the Ice-Embraces
- Return to Civilisation
- Appendix I General Results of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition
- Ii The Antarctic Climate
- III The Bathymetical Conditions of the Antacrctic Regions
- IV Nautical Positions and Magnetic Deductions
- V The Navigation of the Antarctic Ice-Pack
- VI The Possibilities of Antarctic Exploration.