In Gilded Age America, Arctic explorers were fabulous celebrities—assured of riches and near-immortality so long as they reached the North Pole first. Of the many attempts to meet that goal, three Ame
A catalog of archaeological artifacts that have been left behind in space as a result of human exploration, this work describes the remnants of lost satellites, discarded lunar rovers, depleted rocke
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 deliver the results
Discover a little-known world of archaeology Wrecked aircraft and abandoned airfields, old highway billboards and derelict boats, movie props, deserted mining operations. In this book, archaeologist P
Foundation for Coast Guard History Best Book Award—2006 “Fascinating.”—Canadian Naval Review “A classic of its kind.”—The Northern Mariner “Novak tells the sort of war story that rarely makes it into
This volume addresses the creation, documentation, preservation, and study of the archaeology of lunar, planetary, and interstellar exploration. It defines the attributes of common human technological
US government meteorologist Baldwin is perhaps best known for the failure of the 1901-02 Arctic expedition he led, but his journal here documents one of two earlier expeditions, this led by American j