Seek the frozen lands : Irish polar explorers 1740-1922 /
Nugent, Frank,1948-author.
Previous edition: 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-263) and index.
Eighteenth-century exploration -- Bransfield sights the Antarctic peninsula -- Sabine and Crozier enter the Arctic -- Crozier, captain of Terror -- The Franklin expedition -- McClure and McClintock search for Franklin -- McClure and Investigator search from the Pacific -- The Belcher expedition -- McClintock's voyage of the Fox -- After the Franklin search and the Nares North Pole expedition -- Jerome Collins and John Cole of Cork -- Scott's Discovery expedition -- Shackleton's Nimrod expedition -- Antarctic expedition of Terra Nova -- Epic voyage of the Endurance -- Shackleton and Crean's final voyages -- The legacy of the Irish polar explorers.
Explorers