Shipwreck at Cape Flora - The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer

Mentioned in BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24281727

Benjamin Leigh Smith discovered and named dozens of islands in the Arctic but published no account of his pioneering explorations. He refused public accolades and sent stand-ins to delive

About the author

P. J. Capelotti is associate professor of anthropology at Penn State University, Abington College. He is the author of more than a dozen books and his research has taken him several times to Svalbard and Franz Josef Land and twice to the North Pole.

Product details

• Authors: P. J. Capelotti, P. J. (Peter Joseph) Capelotti
• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2013
• EAN: 9781552387054
• ISBN: 978-1-55238-705-4
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 438 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries