The Franz Josef Land Archipelago
Subtitle: E. B. Baldwin's Journal of the Wellman Polar Expedition, 1898-1899
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: March 19, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780786417766
Subjects: Geographical discovery & exploration; Travel; c 1800 to c 1900; Discovery and exploration; World - General; Discovery And Exploration (General); History: World; History; History - General History; General; Arctic regions; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; 1862-1933; Polar Regions; Russia (Federation); Baldwin, Evelyn Briggs,; Diaries; Franz Josef Land; Franz Josef Land (Russia)
Description: "Franz Josef Land is a forbidding place, isolated by geography and history. Lying above the Arctic Circle in the northernmost province of Russia, this remote archipelago was discovered by Westerners in 1873. Chicago journalist Walter Wellman led the first American party there as part of a North Pole expedition in 1898-1899. His second-in-command, Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, kept a journal of the trip. Previsouly unpublished, it reveals much about one of the last great periods of exploration - including the violence, chicanery, and racism that characterized many of the American efforts." "Baldwin's journal paints a more realistic picture of the expedition than did Wellman's communiques sent home for mass consumption. Correspondence between Baldwin and Wellman is included, and expedition notes list supplies, geographic features observed, and doctor's notes. Editor P. J. Capelotti provides an extended introduction, and the text is illustrated with maps, depictions of dramatic events on the trip, and several photographs."--BOOK JACKET.