Beyond Petsora Eastward. Two Summer Voyages to Novaya Zemlya and the Islands of the Barents Sea [Arctic Ornithology & Exploration]
London: R.H. Porter, 1899. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —Henry J. Pearson was an industrialist turned naturalist whose wealth allowed for the chartering of private vessels to explore the inhospitable North. His partnership with Colonel H. W. Feilden—a veteran of the 1875-76 British Arctic Expedition—provided the technical credibility that elevated this from a......