The Coldest Coast: The 1873 Leigh Smith Expedition to Svalbard in the Diaries and Photographs of Herbert Chermside - Historical Geography and Geosciences - - Books - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - 9783030678791 - June 16, 2021
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The Coldest Coast: The 1873 Leigh Smith Expedition to Svalbard in the Diaries and Photographs of Herbert Chermside - Historical Geography and Geosciences 1st ed. 2021 edition

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This book describes the 1873 voyage of the British explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith, based on the diaries and photographs of Lieutenant Herbert C. Chermside, who joined the expedition of the seas around Svalbard. Chermside?s photographs, long believed lost, have recently been uncovered in Sweden and are being curated there by the Grenna Museum. The three unpublished diaries of Herbert Chermside were lent to the Scott Polar Research Institute in 1939 by Mrs. Benjamin Leigh Smith. For the first time, Chermside?s diaries are published in their entirety, with the original photographs shown alongside modern images of the same locations. This includes the first photographic record of the north coast of Svalbard, images that are today being used as comparative data for the study of climate change in the archipelago.

The diaries have been fully transcribed and edited. Introductory chapters are included, written by specialists in the history of exploration, history of science, and the history of photography from Penn State University, the University of Gothenburg, and UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, as well as contributors from the UK and Germany.

This volume is published in association with Grenna Museum, which will present Chermside?s photographs in a 2022 exhibit on Leigh Smith and A. E. Nordenskiold.

250 pages, 33 Illustrations, color; 36 Illustrations, black and white; LXXIII, 250 p. 69 illus., 33

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released June 16, 2021
ISBN13 9783030678791
Publishers Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Pages 250
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   890 g
Language German  
Illustrator Grenna Museum

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