TWO AGAINST THE ICE: Translated from the Danish By Maurice Michael
Mikkelsen, Ejnar
Published by Travel Book Club, London, 1957
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Travel Book Club Edition: 224 pages, map of N.E.Greenland. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Previous owners neat dated inscription and a pen mark on front end paper otherwise contents clean. Shelf wear, covers faded where pieces of dust jacket are missing. Dust jacket repaired has some neat archival tape repairs but also has a rather crude strengthening repair with white paper. Classic Arctic survival, a remarkable account. In 1910 Mikkelsen & his companion set out to find the diaries of the lost Mylius-Erichsen expedition. Made into a film "Against the Ice" in 2022 A Classic Arctic Survival Story and a Remarkable Account of companionship in the Face of Adversity by Mikkelsen, Ejnar. In 1910 Mikkelsen & his companion set out to find the diaries of the lost Mylius-Erichsen expedition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3820. Seller Inventory # 3820
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Title: TWO AGAINST THE ICE: Translated from the ...
Publisher: Travel Book Club, London
Publication Date: 1957
Binding: Hardcover (Original Cloth)
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
Edition: Book Club Edition.
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Two Against the Ice ⦠Translated from the Danish by Maurice Michael.
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Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom
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London, Rupert Hart-Davis, [1955]. 8vo. Original boards with illustrated dust-wrappers (not price-clipped); pp. 224, sketch map and plates after photographs; very light rubbing to the rarely seen wrappers, minimal offsetting from endpapers, otherwise remarkably clean and fresh. First edition in English (and not the Travel Book Club edition) of a classic tale of survival by an unheralded but important figure in the history of Arctic exploration. 'In 1910 he [Mikkelsen] decided to search for the diaries of the ill-fated Mylius-Erichsen expedition, which had set out to prove that Robert PearyÂ's outline of the East Greenland coast was a myth, erroneous and presumably self-serving. Iver Iversen was a mechanic who joined Mikkelsen in Iceland when the expeditionÂ's boat needed repair. Several months later, Mikkelsen and Iversen embarked on a journey during which they would suffer virtually every travail in the Arctic repertoire: implacable cold, scurvy, starvation, frostbite, snow blindness, plunges into icy seawater, Sisyphean sledging conditions, Vitamin A poisoning, debilitated dogs, apocalyptic storms, gaping crevasses, and assorted mortifications of the flesh. MikkelsenÂ's diary was eaten by a bear. Three years of this, coupled with seemingly no hope of rescue, would drive most crazy, yet the two retained both their sanity and their humor. Indeed, what may have saved them was their refusal to become as desolate as their surroundings' (blurb of the first US edition of 2003). Seller Inventory # 2118103
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