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UNINA9910972117003321 |
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Autore |
Lambert Andrew D. <1956-> |
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Titolo |
The gates of hell : Sir John Franklin's tragic quest for the North West Passage / / Andrew Lambert |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2009 |
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1-282-35289-X |
9786612352898 |
0-300-15486-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (448 p.) |
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Explorers - Great Britain |
Arctic regions Discovery and exploration British |
Northwest Passage Discovery and exploration British |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-405) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Prologue : Erebus : the Gates of Hell -- The North West Passage : designs and delusions -- John Franklin : navigator -- Another career -- Scientific empires -- From Van Diemen's land to Tasmania, 1836-43 -- Science, culture and civilisation -- 'The nucleus of an iceberg' -- Magnetic empires -- 'Till our provisions get short' -- Defeated, deceived and defrauded -- Belcher -- Martyrs of science -- Arctic Fox -- Big art, brazen lies and the 'great explorer' -- Terror : what really happened? |
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Andrew Lambert, a leading authority on naval history, reexamines the life of Sir John Franklin and his final, doomed Arctic voyage. Franklin was a man of his time, fascinated, even obsessed with, the need to explore the world; he had already mapped nearly two-thirds of the northern coastline of North America when he undertook his third Arctic voyage in 1845, at the age of fifty-nine. His two ships were fitted with the latest equipment; steam engines enabled them to navigate the pack ice, and he and his crew had a three-year supply of preserved and tinned food and more than one thousand books. Despite these preparations, the voyage ended in catastrophe: the ships became imprisoned in the ice, and the men were wracked by disease and |
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ultimately wiped out by hypothermia, scurvy, and cannibalism. Franklin's mission was ostensibly to find the elusive North West Passage, a viable sea route between Europe and Asia reputed to lie north of the American continent. Lambert shows for the first time that there were other scientific goals for the voyage and that the disaster can only be understood by reconsidering the original objectives of the mission. Franklin, commonly dismissed as a bumbling fool, emerges as a more important and impressive figure, in fact, a hero of navigational science. |
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UNINA9910743378203321 |
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Titolo |
Advances in Distributed Computing and Machine Learning : Proceedings of ICADCML 2021 / / edited by Jyoti Prakash Sahoo, Asis Kumar Tripathy, Manoranjan Mohanty, Kuan-Ching Li, Ajit Kumar Nayak |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022 |
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981-16-4806-9 |
981-16-4807-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2022.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (538 pages) |
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Collana |
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Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, , 2367-3389 ; ; 302 |
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Disciplina |
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Computational intelligence |
Artificial intelligence |
Machine learning |
Blockchains (Databases) |
Internet of things |
Computational Intelligence |
Artificial Intelligence |
Machine Learning |
Blockchain |
Internet of Things |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Unconstrained Power Management Algorithm for Green Cloud Computing -- An Efficient Load Balancing System with Resource Failure -- Energy-Aware Service Management in Vehicular Cloud Computing. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book presents recent advances in the field of scalable distributed computing including state-of-the-art research in the field of Cloud Computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Blockchain in distributed environments along with applications and findings in broad areas including Data Analytics, AI, and Machine Learning to address complex real-world problems. It features selected high-quality research papers from the 2nd International Conference on Advances in Distributed Computing and Machine Learning (ICADCML 2021), organized by the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, Institute of Technical Education and Research(ITER), Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, India. |
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