Description
Dr. P.J. Capelotti is Professor of Anthropology and Research Associate at the Polar Center at Penn State University, in Abington, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. He is author or editor of over two dozen publications on history historical archaeology, including “By Airship to the North Pole: an archaeology of human exploration” (1999), “Sea Drift: Rafting Adventures in the Wake of Kon-Tiki” (2001), “Life and Death on the Greenland Patrol” (2005), “The Whaling Expedition of the Ulysses” (2010), “Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England’s forgotten Arctic explorer” (2013) and “The Greatest Show in the Arctic: the American exploration of Franz Josef Land, 1898-1905” (2016). Foreword by Charlotte Moore, author and descendent of Benjamin Leigh Smith Foreword by Hkan Jorikson, Director of Grenna Museum (Swedish) Introduction: Herbert C. Chermside and his chronicle of Benjamin Leigh Smith’s 1873 exploration of Spitzbergen by P.J. Capelotti One: The 19th century exploration of Spitzbergen by Susan Barr Two: Adolf Erik Nordenskild and the Swedish expedition of 1872-73 by Urban Wrkberg Three: Axel W. Engvall and Leigh Smith’s rescue of Nordenskild by Anders Larsson Four: Alfred Eaton and the biological collections of Leigh Smith’s 1873 expedition by C.L. Devlin Five: Chermside’s observations of marine mammals during a Spitzbergen hunt by C.L. Devlin Six: Chermside’s Arctic birds by Magnus Forsberg Seven: The discovery of Chermside’s Spitzbergen photographs by Hkan Jorikson and Anders Larsson Eight: Chermside’s Spitzbergen imagery, then and now by Tyrone Martinsson and Andreas Umbreit Nine: Chermside’s diary of Leigh Smith’s 1873 expedition edited by P.J. Capelotti Appendix 1: Spitzbergen/Svalbard Place Names, 1873 and current Acknowledgements
