Polar Journeys Polar Journeys Polar Journeys: The Role of Food and Nutrition in Early Exploration - Softcover

Feeney, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0912006978 ISBN 13: 9780912006970

Verlag: University of Alaska Press, 1997

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Book by Feeney Robert

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Feeney, a distinguished biochemist, relates the history of arctic and antarctic exploration to the the science of nutrition. Vivid descriptions of explorers and their plights include the expeditions of Stafansson, Franklin, Nares, Greelyl, DeLong, Peary, Cook, Amundsen, Mawson, Scott, and Shackleton.

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In this unique book, distinguished biochemist Robert E. Feeney relates the history of polar exploration to the history of the science of nutrition, showing, for example, how advances in food preservation helped make possible human survival on the expeditions. The text covers the problems caused by too scant a supply of vitamins, most notably the role of diminished vitamin C in scurvy and too much of a good thing, in the case of hypervitaminosis from unknowingly overdosing on vitamin A. The author discusses also the Eskimo knowledge of foodstuffs and how the explorers learned valuable lessons from them, as well as how expedition members delayed in applying that learning because of their Eurocentric prejudices.

With extensive quotes from explorers' journals, historical menus, tables, and numerous illustrations, the author presents a vivid description of what the expeditions experienced, making a powerful case that the explorers not only traveled metaphorically on their stomachs, they lived and died by the quantity of their food and especially the quality of their nutrition.

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• Verlag: University of Alaska Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0912006978
• ISBN 13: 9780912006970
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 279