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Mentioned in BBC News: http: //www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24281727 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 of his work to scientific societies. Yet, the Royal Geographic Society's Sir Clements R. Markham referred to him as a polar explorer of the first rank. Traveling to the Arctic islands that Leigh Smith explored and crisscrossing England to uncover unpublished journals, diaries, and photographs, archaeologist and writer P. J. Capelotti details Leigh Smith's five major Arctic expeditions and places them within the context of the great polar explorations in the nineteenth century

The expedition led by Norwegian explorer Bjorn Larsen and Italian archaeologist Paolo Serengetti takes an unexpected turn when they discover a shipwreck in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Instead of finding evidence of the lost 1928 Italia dirigible, they uncover a submarine resembling Jules Verne's Nautilus from "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." This revelation suggests that Verne's tale may have been based on a real undersea voyage from 1867, blurring the lines between fiction and reality in a thrilling archaeological adventure.

Explores places and things that people don't typically think of as archaeological sites and artifacts, introducing readers to the most extreme fieldwork taking place today. P.J. Capelotti shows that even seemingly ordinary objects from the recent past hold secrets about the cultural history of humans.