Admiral Albert Hastings Markham
Jastrzembski, Frank, 1988-2019
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Few men have lived such an extraordinary life as Admiral Albert Hastings Markham. Besides dedicating five decades of his career to the Royal Navy, Markham was a voracious reader, prolific writer, keen naturalist, and daring explorer. He battled Chinese pirates during the Second Opium War and Taiping Rebellion; chased down Australian blackbirding ships in the South Pacific; trekked to within 400 miles of the North Pole; hunted buffalo and visited Indian reservations in the United States; observed a bloody war in South America; canoed Canada's remote Hayes River; and explored the icy waters of Baffin Bay and the Arctic Ocean archipelago of Novaya Zemlya. While Markham's life was filled with adventure, it was also marred by tragedy. Regrettably, Markham is best remembered for his role in the sinking of HMS Victoria in 1893. This one incident has tarnished his legacy until now.
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Admiral Albert Hastings Markham / Frank Jastrzembski.
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Imprint:
Barnsley : Pen & Sword Maritime, 2019.
Collation:
216 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781526725929 (hbk)
Dewey class:
B MARB/MAR
Language:
English
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BRN:
2844819
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