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Daines Barrington (1727/8-1800) and Mark Beaufoy (1764-1827) became fellows of the Royal Society in 1767 and 1790 respectively. Barrington's contributions to the Philosophical Transactions favoured natural history, but another of his passions was polar exploration and a potential sea route through the Arctic Ocean. Beaufoy, an astronomer and physicist, was notably involved in discerning changes in the earth's magnetic field. Reissued in its 1818 second edition, these papers discuss Arctic exploration and evidence for the theorised open polar sea. Barrington's tracts, originally dating from the 1770s, draw on the testimony of those navigators who had ventured into high latitudes. Though flawed, his hopes of explorers pushing through the pack ice retain considerable historical interest. A map of the North Pole and the surrounding region, so far as it was known, is included. The appendix contains Beaufoy's papers from 1817, including questions answered by Russians who wintered on Spitsbergen.

North Pole. --- Arctic regions --- Northwest Passage. --- North geographical pole --- Discovery and exploration.

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Originally published in 1879, this illustrated work by Albert Hastings Markham (1841-1918) opens with accounts of Arctic exploration from the sixth to the nineteenth centuries, including the expeditions led by Constantine John Phipps (1744-92), William Edward Parry (1790-1855) and George Nares (1831-1915). The journal of Thomas Floyd (c.1754-78), who served as midshipman under Phipps in 1773, comprises the most significant part of the work. Outlining the difficulties faced by an eighteenth-century expedition, ranging from encounters with wildlife to adverse weather conditions, Floyd's narrative is notable also for its inclusion of some early episodes in the career of Horatio Nelson, also a midshipman on the voyage. More than a dozen engravings enhance the work. Other publications by Markham, including A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay (1874) and The Great Frozen Sea (1878), are also reissued in this series.

Racehorse (Ship) --- Carcass (Ship) --- North Pole --- Arctic regions --- Discovery and exploration --- British. --- North geographical pole

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Having joined the Royal Navy at the age of ten, Frederick William Beechey (1796-1856) had risen to the rank of lieutenant when he served under John Franklin on the 1818 British expedition to the Arctic in search of a possible route from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Two ships, the Dorothea and the Trent, were sent to find a route via the seas around Spitsbergen. A little north of 80° their progress was halted by ice. Sailing west to Greenland, the Dorothea was seriously damaged and the expedition aborted. Beechey's account remains the principal source for this voyage as neither Franklin nor the overall commander David Buchan published their journals. Beechey's Arctic service equipped him to later command the Blossom in northern waters: his two-volume Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait (1831) is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.

Dorothea (Ship) --- Trent (Ship) --- Arctic regions --- North Pole --- Discovery and exploration --- British. --- Discovery and exploration. --- North geographical pole

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Prior to his disappearance in the Arctic during an airborne rescue mission, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) had reflected in writing on his extraordinary career. First published in 1927 and reissued here in the English translation of that year, his autobiography discusses in straightforward style the numerous difficulties of his many expeditions, ranging from problems of finance and planning through to dealing with life-threatening danger and inevitable controversy. Generously acknowledging an 'old gentleman in Grimsby' for providing materials that helped him plan the first navigation of the North-West Passage, Amundsen credits painstaking preparation as the cornerstone of his success, especially in the conquest of the South Pole. His fuller accounts of these two expeditions are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. Frank and focused like its author, the present work will reveal to readers the outlook and approach of a remarkable figure in the history of polar exploration.

Explorers --- Aeronautics --- Airline flights --- Voyages and travels --- Flights. --- Voyages --- Amundsen, Roald, --- Amundsen, Rual, --- Amundsen, Roald Engelbregt Gravning, --- Arctic regions --- North Pole --- Northwest Passage --- South Pole --- Antarctica --- Antarctic regions --- Polar regions --- South geographical pole --- Arctic --- Arctic Ocean Region --- Arctic, The --- Far North --- The Arctic --- North geographical pole --- Discovery and exploration --- Norwegian.

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The Arctic, the Antarctic, and the Hindu Kush-Himalayas form a unique trio called the three poles. Mainly composed of snow, rock, and ice, these precious regions contain vast areas of wilderness for humanity. Together they make up the primary water resource of this planet and directly shape our climate. This book presents a first-ever global assessment and progressive review of the three poles and the urgent need for their protection. Sins of the past have irrevocably harmed these regions, and the future looks bleak with the global population reaching 9 billion by 2060 and climate change on the rise. Presented here is a wide-reaching and coherent overview of the poles’ biodiversity, habitats, and ongoing destruction. Failed protection and social targets set by the United Nations and other bodies are exposed while economic growth and urban sprawl continue unabated. Polar regions play a major role on the global agenda as they are rich in oil and other resources, marking them for contamination, overfishing, and further degradation. The chapters are written by experts in their fields, and their evidence leaves no doubt that we already live beyond our carrying capacity on a finite space. A global protection role model and several outlook scenarios are proposed to help set in motion polar protection priorities that are actually valid. That way, it may not be too late to salvage this huge, last wilderness so relevant for the well-being of humanity and at least protect what is still left.

Environmental protection -- Economic aspects. --- Environmental protection -- Himalaya Mountains. --- Environmental protection -- Polar Regions. --- Environmental protection --- Environmental policy --- Water-supply --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Ecology --- Environmental Engineering --- Discovery & Exploration --- Environmental Sciences --- Management --- Polar regions. --- North Pole. --- South Pole. --- Himalaya Mountains. --- Availability, Water --- Water availability --- Water resources --- Environment and state --- Environmental control --- Environmental management --- Environmental quality --- State and environment --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Government policy --- Himalaya --- Himalaya Range --- Himalayan Chain --- Himalayan Mountains --- Himalayas --- South geographical pole --- North geographical pole --- Life sciences. --- Oceanography. --- Animal ecology. --- Biodiversity. --- Aquatic ecology. --- Zoology. --- Nature conservation. --- Life Sciences. --- Nature Conservation. --- Animal Ecology. --- Freshwater & Marine Ecology. --- Antarctica --- Arctic regions --- Cold regions --- Aquatic biology. --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Oceanography, Physical --- Oceanology --- Physical oceanography --- Thalassography --- Earth sciences --- Marine sciences --- Ocean --- Animals --- Zoology --- Biology --- Natural history --- Hydrobiology --- Water biology --- Aquatic sciences --- Biological diversification --- Biological diversity --- Biotic diversity --- Diversification, Biological --- Diversity, Biological --- Biocomplexity --- Ecological heterogeneity --- Numbers of species --- Conservation --- Aquatic ecology . --- Aquatic biology --- Polar regions --- Himalaya Mountains --- Environmental conditions. --- Asia