L H Neatby
Biographic Data
| ID | 1347655 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L H Neatby |
| GIVEN NAMES | L H |
| FAMILY NAME | Neatby |
| SIGNATURE | NEATBY L H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Acadia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Thomas Simpson (1808-1840)
Thomas Simpson was born in the north of Scotland and graduated from the University of Aberdeen with more than competence. He was enrolled in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company, and in the New World he exemplified the popular conception of the clever academic launched into society. He expressed the utmost contempt for his colleagues and in a letter assured his brother Alexander his talents would secure him speedy advancement. This arrogance m…
Henry Kellett (1806-1875)
Although he hardly rates as an explorer, Sir Henry Kellett rendered a most valuable service to polar history by rescuing the "Investigator" and so preserving the record of her sensational and often perilous voyage [through the Northwest Passage. Those seeking insight into the circumstances of the discovery of the Northwest Passage and the award of 10,000 Pounds Stirling to the officers and men of the Investigator, dismissing Kellett's rescue of M…
Robert J.L. McClure (1807-1873)
Robert John LeMesurier McClure was born of Anglo-Irish gentry in 1807. He joined the Navy at the advanced age of 16 and for many years missed promotion. In 1836-1837 he was mate on George Back's Terror cruise in Hudson Bay and came back well initiated in the dangers of pack ice. ... After years of obscurity, he was made first lieutenant of the Enterprise, in which James Ross was leading the first Franklin rescue expedition. McClure gained no cred…
John Davis (ca. 1550-1605)
Davis was not typical of the seagoing adventurers of his age, whether Spanish or English. He indulged in none of their quarrelsome rivalries, and had none of their ravenous greed for wealth and glory. His writing is without the bombast to which some of his contemporaries were addicted. He made no startlingly original discovery: his work was to extend, clarify, and give shape to Frobisher's casual and incoherent observations. The well-informed Luk…
James Clark Ross (1800-1862)
James Ross took part in more arctic voyages than any other officer of the period. He is less celebrated than some because the only northern expedition he commanded - a fruitless search for John Franklin - was unjustly damaging to his reputation. He was, nevertheless, a trusted officer on all the W.E. Parry expeditions to the Arctic. Under John Ross, he discovered the North Magnetic Pole and helped transform the seagoing polar traveller into an am…
John Ross (1777-1856)
The space accorded John Ross in the history of th Canadian Arctic is out of proportion to his achievement, circumstances arising from his invincible self-confidence and refusal to admit error. When convicted of blunders - obvious but excusable - he retorted on his critics with a repetitive bitterness that added much to his celebrity, although it did little for his reputation. His first unlucky arctic voyage at least restored the faded character o…
Martin Frobisher (ca. 1540-1594)
the Englishman Martin Frobisher is the first accredited pioneer of northern Canadian exploration. He made known to the world the dangers of navigation in the icy seas, the forbidding terrain of Baffin Island, the type of its inhabitants, and the existence of Hudson Strait. ... he dimmed his credit by failing to fix his discoveries with precision, by diverting his search - perhaps contrary to his own choice - from exploration to a futile gold-hunt…
George Back (1796-1878)
BackGeorge Back, British admiral and arctic explorer, was born in 1796 and joined the Navy in 1808.At the age of thirteen he was wounded, made a prisoner of war, and lodged in the French fortress of Verdun.He passed several years of captivity by devoting himself to the study of drawing and mathematics.Returning to the Navy in 181 8, Back sailed as mate in the Trent, under Lieutenant John Franklin, on an abortive voyage into the Spitsbergen ice.In…
Johann August Miertsching (1817-1877)
Miertsching learned the Eskimo language while serving at a Moravian mission at the Labrador station of Ogkak. He was directed by his order to serve as interpreter for the British Admiralty on an Arctic discovery ship searching for the Sir John Franklin expedition. Miertsching remained with Captain McClure for five years, in spite of having been assigned to the ship of Captain Collinson. Collinson, who went to Victoria Island, could probably have …
Samuel Gurney Cresswell (1827-1867)
Samuel Cresswell was born in 1827, joined the Navy in 1842, and served in the China seas, where he was twice gazetted for service against the pirates of Borneo. On his return to England he was - perhaps through Parry's influence - appointed to the 1848-49 Franklin rescue expedition led by Sir James Ross. ... Captain Collinson took command on the Enterprise; Cresswell became second lieutenant on the Investigator under Commander Robert McClure. Una…
Eastward to Empire: Exploration and Conquest on the Russian Open Frontier, to 1750, by George V. Lantzeff and Richard A. Pierce
Bibliography of Books on Alaska Published Before 1868, by Valerian Lada-Mocarski
The Fur Trade and the Northwest to 1857
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Frozen Ships: The Arctic Diary of Johann Miertsching 1850-1854
Westviking: The Ancient Norse in Greenland and America
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
The British Search for the Northwest Passage in the Eighteenth Century
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Quest for Franklin
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Sverdrup’s Arctic Adventures
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Caesar: Alexandrian, African and Spanish Wars
Caesar: Alexandrian, African and Spanish Wars
Sverdrup’s Arctic Adventures
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Quest for Franklin
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
The British Search for the Northwest Passage in the Eighteenth Century
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Westviking: The Ancient Norse in Greenland and America
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
The Fur Trade and the Northwest to 1857
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Frozen Ships: The Arctic Diary of Johann Miertsching 1850-1854
Bibliography of Books on Alaska Published Before 1868, by Valerian Lada-Mocarski
Eastward to Empire: Exploration and Conquest on the Russian Open Frontier, to 1750, by George V. Lantzeff and Richard A. Pierce
Johann August Miertsching (1817-1877)
Miertsching learned the Eskimo language while serving at a Moravian mission at the Labrador station of Ogkak. He was directed by his order to serve as interpreter for the British Admiralty on an Arctic discovery ship searching for the Sir John Franklin expedition. Miertsching remained with Captain McClure for five years, in spite of having been assigned to the ship of Captain Collinson. Collinson, who went to Victoria Island, could probably have …
Samuel Gurney Cresswell (1827-1867)
Samuel Cresswell was born in 1827, joined the Navy in 1842, and served in the China seas, where he was twice gazetted for service against the pirates of Borneo. On his return to England he was - perhaps through Parry's influence - appointed to the 1848-49 Franklin rescue expedition led by Sir James Ross. ... Captain Collinson took command on the Enterprise; Cresswell became second lieutenant on the Investigator under Commander Robert McClure. Una…
Martin Frobisher (ca. 1540-1594)
the Englishman Martin Frobisher is the first accredited pioneer of northern Canadian exploration. He made known to the world the dangers of navigation in the icy seas, the forbidding terrain of Baffin Island, the type of its inhabitants, and the existence of Hudson Strait. ... he dimmed his credit by failing to fix his discoveries with precision, by diverting his search - perhaps contrary to his own choice - from exploration to a futile gold-hunt…
George Back (1796-1878)
BackGeorge Back, British admiral and arctic explorer, was born in 1796 and joined the Navy in 1808.At the age of thirteen he was wounded, made a prisoner of war, and lodged in the French fortress of Verdun.He passed several years of captivity by devoting himself to the study of drawing and mathematics.Returning to the Navy in 181 8, Back sailed as mate in the Trent, under Lieutenant John Franklin, on an abortive voyage into the Spitsbergen ice.In…
John Davis (ca. 1550-1605)
Davis was not typical of the seagoing adventurers of his age, whether Spanish or English. He indulged in none of their quarrelsome rivalries, and had none of their ravenous greed for wealth and glory. His writing is without the bombast to which some of his contemporaries were addicted. He made no startlingly original discovery: his work was to extend, clarify, and give shape to Frobisher's casual and incoherent observations. The well-informed Luk…
James Clark Ross (1800-1862)
James Ross took part in more arctic voyages than any other officer of the period. He is less celebrated than some because the only northern expedition he commanded - a fruitless search for John Franklin - was unjustly damaging to his reputation. He was, nevertheless, a trusted officer on all the W.E. Parry expeditions to the Arctic. Under John Ross, he discovered the North Magnetic Pole and helped transform the seagoing polar traveller into an am…
John Ross (1777-1856)
The space accorded John Ross in the history of th Canadian Arctic is out of proportion to his achievement, circumstances arising from his invincible self-confidence and refusal to admit error. When convicted of blunders - obvious but excusable - he retorted on his critics with a repetitive bitterness that added much to his celebrity, although it did little for his reputation. His first unlucky arctic voyage at least restored the faded character o…
Robert J.L. McClure (1807-1873)
Robert John LeMesurier McClure was born of Anglo-Irish gentry in 1807. He joined the Navy at the advanced age of 16 and for many years missed promotion. In 1836-1837 he was mate on George Back's Terror cruise in Hudson Bay and came back well initiated in the dangers of pack ice. ... After years of obscurity, he was made first lieutenant of the Enterprise, in which James Ross was leading the first Franklin rescue expedition. McClure gained no cred…
Thomas Simpson (1808-1840)
Thomas Simpson was born in the north of Scotland and graduated from the University of Aberdeen with more than competence. He was enrolled in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company, and in the New World he exemplified the popular conception of the clever academic launched into society. He expressed the utmost contempt for his colleagues and in a letter assured his brother Alexander his talents would secure him speedy advancement. This arrogance m…
Henry Kellett (1806-1875)
Although he hardly rates as an explorer, Sir Henry Kellett rendered a most valuable service to polar history by rescuing the "Investigator" and so preserving the record of her sensational and often perilous voyage [through the Northwest Passage. Those seeking insight into the circumstances of the discovery of the Northwest Passage and the award of 10,000 Pounds Stirling to the officers and men of the Investigator, dismissing Kellett's rescue of M…
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