02112cam a2200289 4500 283108554 TxAuBib 20020516120000.0 020516s1971||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 70-111253 9780394451312 $20.00 0394451317 $20.00 DLC DLC TxAuBib Loomis, Chauncey C, 1930- Weird and Tragic Shores : The Story of Charles Francis Hall, Explorer / [by] Chauncey C. Loomis. Weird & tragic shores. [1st ed. New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. 367 p. [16 p]. of plates : illus., maps, ports; hardcover ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical resources (p. [363]-367) and index. Bibliography: p. [363]-367. Cincinnati, New London, and New York -- Baffin Island : initiation -- Frobisher Bay : exploration -- Interim -- Roe's welcome, Repulse Bay, Igloolik, King William Island -- Interim -- Greenland : the expedition -- Washington : the inquiry. Biography of commander of three arctic expeditions: in search of Franklin relics, 1860-62 and 1864-69, and towards North Pole, 1871-73. In the nineteenth century, Arctic exploration captured man's imagination just as space exploration has captured it today. The coldness and indifference of the Arctic, its beauty and terror, the unknown riches and dangers that lay in its unexplored vastness---all these appealed to man's capacity for wonder and his desire for challenge. The Victorian reading public followed the preparations of an expedition to the North with the same avid attention modern television viewers give to a space flight. Newspaper readers learned of iron sheathing on ships, experimental screw propellers, and ingenious methods of heating cabins, just as today we learn of nose cones, solid fuels, and oxygen support systems. 20020516. Hall, Charles Francis 1821-1871 1821-1871. Arctic regions History.