Seek the Frozen Lands

by Frank Nugent

Overview

High on any list of Polar explorers would be the names Crozier, McClintock, McClure and Shackleton. But how many know they were all Irish? Seek the Frozen Lands unveils an array of Irish heroes largely unknown in modern Ireland. The sage begins with Edward Bransfield, who made one of the first sightings of the Antarctic in 1820. The story ends with the heroic age of Antarctic exploration and the burial of Shackleton in 1922 in South Georgia. Truly a story of heroism, drama and tragedy. * Similar to: Tom Crean – An Unsung Hero, Captain Francis Crozier – Last Man Standing?, Everest Calling, Ger McDonnell: His Life and His Death on K2.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848898547
Publisher:	Collins Press, The
Publication date:	09/15/2013
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	268
File size:	33 MB
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About the Author

Frank Nugent is an experienced mountaineer and explorer. Chairman of the Mountaineering Council of Ireland (1997 - 2000), he was Deputy Leader of the first and successful Irish Everest Expedition (1993), followed in the footsteps of Shackleton across South Georgia (1997), and sailed the Northwest Passage in Northabout, a shallow-draft boat in 2001. A member of the Alpine Club and the James Caird Society, he is a former curriculum and assessment expert with FAS Training & Employment Authority - Ireland. His latest book is In Search of Peaks, Passes and Glaciers: Irish Alpine Pioneers (2013).

Table of Contents

	Preface	vii
	Acknowledgements	ix
	Introduction	1
1	Eighteenth-century Exploration	5
2	Bransfield Sights the Antarctic Peninsula	13
3	Sabine and Crozier Enter the Arctic	25
4	Sabine, Lloyd and Beaufort Lead the Way	39
5	Crozier, Captain of Terror	51
6	The Franklin Expedition	69
7	McClure, McClintock and Kellett Search for Franklin	79
8	McClure and Investigator Search from the Pacific	95
9	The Belcher Expedition	109
10	McClintock's Voyage of the Fox	121
11	After the Franklin Search and the Nares North Pole Expedition	141
12	The Private Arctic Expeditions of Henry Gore-Booth	161
13	Jerome Collins and John Cole of Cork	167
14	Scott's Discovery Expedition	179
15	Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition	193
16	Antarctic Expedition of Terra Nova	205
17	Epic Voyage of the Endurance	229
18	Shackleton and Crean's Final Voyages	261
19	The Legacy of the Irish Polar Explorers	269
	Notes & References	273
	Glossary of Polar & Nautical Terms & Conversion Tables	281
	Bibliography	283
	Index	286