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Leeds Russian Archive8
Brotherton Collection2
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1

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SubjectCount
voyages and travels3
whaling2
zoology2
aeronautics1
discoveries in geography1
discovery and exploration, russian1
explorers1
magnetic pole1
natural history1
north pole1

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PlaceCount
Arctic Regions31
Iceland4
Siberia (Russia)3
Greenland2
Siberia2
Antarctica1
Arctic Ocean1
Europe1
Faroe Islands1
New France1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Markham, Sir Clements R (1830-1916)3
Broussonnet, Jean Louis Victor2
Broussonnet, Pierre Marie Auguste2
Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood Marquis of (1826-1902)2
Engelhardt, Lisa Vrangel Von2
Forster, Johann Reinhold (1729-1798)2
Le Tourneur, Pierre Prime Felicien2
Le Tourneur, Pierre Prime Felicien (1737-1788)2
Pennant, Thomas (1726-1798)2
Ritter, Carl2

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Mezhdu zhiznʹ︠i︡u i smertʹ︠i︡u : dnevnik uchastnika ėkspedi︠t︡sīi Brusilova

Alʹbanov, Valerian Ivanovich

1925

First published in Zapiski po gīdrografīĭ, t. 41, Petrograd, 1917, under title Na ︠i︡ug k Zeml︠i︡e Fran︠t︡sa Iosifa. Later ed. published under title Podvig shturmana V.I. Alʹbanova.

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Round about the North Pole

Gordon, William John

1907

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The threshold of the unknown region

Markham, Sir Clements R (1830-1916)

1876

Includes extensive discussion of the Arctic Expedition of 1875 of the "Alert" and "Discovery" under the command of Captain George Strong Nares. "Biographical dictionary of the Arctic expedition of 1...

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The threshold of the unknown region

Markham, Sir Clements R (1830-1916)

1873

Includes index.

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Í norðurveg (v.1-2)

Vilhjálmur Stefánsson

1927-28

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Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam", to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen

Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood Marquis of (1826-1902)

1891

Published also under title: A yacht voyage.

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Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history, and an account of the whale-fishery

Leslie, Sir John (1766-1832); Jameson, Robert (1774-1854); Murray, Hugh (1779-1846)

[1845]

Added t.-p. illus.: Discovery and adventure.

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