New Land : Four Years in the Arctic Regions
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
New Land 2 volume Set
ISBN-10
1108071104
ISBN-13
9781108071109
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 17th, 2014
Print length
518 Pages
Weight
780 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.90 x 3.40 cms
Product Classification:
Historical geographyHistorical geography
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This well-illustrated 1904 account describes the four years spent by Otto Sverdrup and his crew in charting the seas and coastlines of the Arctic. Volume 1 describes the life and work of the first two years, including extensive trips away from their base, both on land and on the ice.
This well-illustrated account of polar exploration was originally published in Norway in 1903, and in this two-volume English translation in 1904. It tells the story of the four years spent by Otto Sverdrup (1854–1930) and his crew in surveying and charting the seas and coastlines of the Arctic. Sverdrup had qualified as a ship's master when he first met Fridtjof Nansen, whose Greenland expedition of 1888 he accompanied. He advised on the construction of Nansen's wooden ship, the Fram, and became its master in 1895. Both with Nansen and under his own leadership, he undertook many expeditions. In June 1898, he took the Fram and a crew including several scientists to Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic, where they overwintered for four years. Volume 1 describes the life and work of the first two years, including extensive trips away from the Fram, both on land and on the ice.
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