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George W. De Long (1844-81) was a US Navy officer who set out to find a new route to the North Pole via the Bering Strait. During his voyage, which left San Francisco in 1879, he claimed the De Long Islands for the USA. But when his vessel, the Jeannette, sank, he and his crew abandoned ship, and he eventually died of starvation in Siberia. His doomed expedition is documented in these two volumes, compiled by his wife Emma from his journals and the testimony of the mission's survivors. First published in 1883, Volume 1 begins by sketching De Long's early years and his preparations for the expedition. The remaining chapters record the crew's experiences in the treacherous Arctic, and their brave but vain attempts to save the Jeannette. Providing a vivid account of nineteenth-century Polar exploration, it remains of great interest to scholars of geography and maritime studies.

Jeannette (Ship) --- Arctic Regions --- Siberia (Russia) --- Transportation --- Nature --- Travel

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George W. De Long was a US Navy officer who set out to find a new route to the North Pole via the Bering Strait. During his voyage, which left San Francisco in 1879, he claimed the De Long Islands for the USA. But when his vessel, the Jeannette, sank, the crew abandoned ship, and he eventually died of starvation in Siberia. Compiled by his wife from his journals and the testimony of the survivors, these two volumes document De Long's doomed expedition. First published in 1883, Volume 2 records the Jeannette's final wreckage, and the crew's continuation of their perilous mission in smaller boats. It concludes with the discovery of De Long's records, and later his remains, by surviving crew member George Melville. Providing a vivid account of 19th-century Polar exploration, it remains of great interest to scholars of geography and maritime studies.

De Long, George W. --- Travel --- Jeannette (Ship) --- Arctic regions --- Siberia (Russia) --- Discovery and exploration --- American. --- Description and travel. --- De Long, George Washington, --- DeLong, George W. --- Long, George W. de --- USS Jeannette (Ship) --- U.S.S. Jeannette (Ship) --- Pandora (Ship) --- Description and travel

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Throughout history, records of high-achieving women have been lost through the pervasive assumption of male dominance. Independently-performing women disappear as supporters of their husbands' work, as unpaid and often unacknowledged secretaries and research assistants, and as managers of men's domestic domains; even intellectual collaboration tends to be portrayed as normative wifely behaviour rather than as joint work. 'Forgotten Wives' examines the ways in which the institution and status of marriage has contributed to the active 'disremembering' of women's achievements. Ann Oakley interrogates conventions of history and biography writing using the case-studies of four women married to well-known men - Charlotte Shaw (née Payne-Townshend) , Mary Booth (née Macaulay), Jeannette Tawney (née Beveridge) and Janet Beveridge (known previously as Jessy Mair).

Wives - Great Britain - History - 20th century --- Women - History - 20th century --- Shaw, Charlotte Frances, - 1857-1943 --- Booth, Mary Catherine, - 1847-1939 --- Tawney, Jeannette --- Beveridge, Janet Beveridge, - Baroness, - 1876-1959 --- Wives --- Women --- History --- Shaw, Charlotte Frances, --- Booth, Mary Catherine, --- Tawney, Jeannette. --- Beveridge, Janet Beveridge, --- Spouses --- Housewives --- Married women --- Mair, Jessy, --- Philip, Jessie, --- Macaulay, Mary Catherine, --- Shaw, Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend --- Payne-Townshend, Charlotte Frances, --- Townshend, Charlotte Frances Payne-, --- Shaw, Bernard, --- S., C. F. --- C. F. S. --- Townshend, --- Shaw, Charlotte Payne-Townshend, --- Shaw, Charlotte,

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Empire Girls: the colonial heroine comes of age is a critical examination of three novels by writers from different regions of the British Empire: Olive Schreiner's The Story of An African Farm (South Africa), Sara Jeannette Duncan's A Daughter of Today (Canada) and Henry Handel Richardson's The Getting of Wisdom (Australia). All three novels commence as conventional Bildungsromane, yet the plots of all diverge from the usual narrative structure, as a result of both their colonial origins and the clash between their aspirational heroines and the plots available to them. In an analysis including gender, empire, nation and race, Empire Girls provides new critical perspectives on the ways in which this dominant narrative form performs very differently when taken out of its metropolitan setting.

Commonwealth fiction (English) --- Women in literature. --- Bildungsromans. --- Apprenticeship novels --- Bildungsroman --- Bildungsromane --- Coming of age --- Coming of age --- Coming-of-age novels --- Entwicklungsromane --- Erziehungsromane --- Fiction --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- History and criticism. --- Schreiner, Olive, --- Duncan, Sara Jeannette, --- Richardson, Henry Handel,

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Mass communications --- Multimedia systems. --- Multimédia --- #SBIB:309H1711 --- Richard Wise ; with Jeannette Steemers --- computergrafiek --- computers --- kunst en technologie --- nieuwe media --- multimedia --- computerdesign --- internet --- interactiviteit --- e-mail --- digitale televisie --- cyberspace --- cultuurfilosofie --- 791.5 --- 130.2 --- 766.01 --- Nieuwe media, informatietechnologie (videotex, beeldplaat, interactieve televisie, vergadertelevisie,...) --- Multimédia --- Multimedia systems --- Computer-based multimedia information systems --- Multimedia computing --- Multimedia information systems --- Multimedia knowledge systems --- Information storage and retrieval systems