Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer Volume 16

Mentioned in BBC News: http: //www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24281727 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 Traveling to the Arctic islands that Leigh Smith explored and crisscrossing England to uncover unpublished journals, diaries, and photographs, archaeologist and writer P. J. Capelotti details Leigh Smith's five major Arctic expeditions and places them within the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

Author: P. J. Capelotti
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 03/01/2013
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781552387054
ISBN10: 1552387054
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Adventurers & Explorers
- History | Polar Regions
- Social Science | Human Geography

About the Author

P. J. Capelotti is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Penn State University, Abington College. He is the author of more than a dozen books.

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