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Author:

Feeney, Robert Earl.

Title:

Polar journeys : the role of food and nutrition in early exploration / Robert E. Feeney.

Publisher:

University of Alaska Press,
University of Alaska Press,

Copyright Date:

c1997

Description:

xxix, 279 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Food--History.--History.
Nutrition--History.
Food Preservation--history--Antarctic Regions.
Food Preservation--history--Arctic Regions.
Cold Climate--Antarctic Regions.
Cold Climate--Arctic Regions.
Expeditions--history--Antarctic Regions.
Expeditions--history--Arctic Regions.
Nutrition--Antarctic Regions.
Nutrition--Arctic Regions.
Polar regions--History.--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-258) and index.

Contents:

The search for better food and nutrition -- Food processing, preservation, and polar exploration -- Early exploration -- The Eskimos -- Northern exploration from 1500 to 1800 -- Arctic exploration in the first half of the 19th century -- The agonizing searches for Franklin -- Nares, Greely, and DeLong: still unsuccessful and tragic probes to the north -- The latter-day Vikings -- Races to the North Pole: Robert Peary and Frederick Cook -- The almost Eskimo: Vilhjalmur Stefansson -- In to the South Pacific and on to Antarctica -- First expeditions in Antarctica: Amundson, Mawson, Shackelton, and Scott -- The quest for the South Pole: successes and deaths -- Douglas Mawson's heroic return -- The Arctic and Antarctica after World War I -- Antarctica since World War II -- Space exploration -- Food and exploration today

ISBN:

9780912006970 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0912006978 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780841233492 (alk. paper)
0841233497 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)38048513

LCCN:

97049810

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)