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

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P.J. Capelotti

Shipwreck at Cape Flora

The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer

P.J. Capelotti

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English

University of Calgary Press
28 February 2013

Biography: historical, political & military; Expeditions

Series: Northern Lights

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.

Travelling to the Arctic islands that Leigh Smith explored and crisscrossing England to uncover unpublished journals, diaries, and photographs, archaeologist and writer P.J. Capelotti details Leigh Smith's five major Arctic expeditions and places them within the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.

By: P.J. Capelotti
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 435g
ISBN: 9781552387054
ISBN 10: 1552387054
Series: Northern Lights
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 28 February 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

P. J. Capelotti is associate professor of anthropology at Penn State University, Abington College. He is the author of more than a dozen books and his research has taken him several times to Svalbard and Franz Josef Land and twice to the North Pole.