Lanterna Rally

Author: American Geographical Society of N. Y.

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9780428163778

Excerpt from Problems of Polar Research: A Series of Papers by Thirty-One Authors Polar exploration has reached an advanced stage of intensive search in critical places. SO much is now known that the unknown is rather closely localized. Airplane and airship have vastly increased the speed of surface reconnaissance, and blank areas Of substantial size will soon disappear. This impels science to hasten in like degree the Search for secrets that only the Polar Regions may yield. A world conference on objectives in polar research seems eminently desirable, and to supply an equivalent the present book has been undertaken by the American Geographical Society. It forms a symposium by thirty-one recognized students of polar problems. The emphasis is on neither past achievements nor heroic adventure but on the major problems remaining to be solved by further field study, where and by what means those problems may best be attacked, and what manner of cooperation between the sciences most concerned may yield the largest harvest Of results. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.