Nytt land. Fyra år i polartrakterna

SVERDRUP, Otto Neumann.

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Stockholm, Albert Bonniers, 1904. 2 volumes. Original pictorial cloth, gilt lettering, with illustration of the Fram on the front boards. With 3 folding coloured maps and 223 illustrations. XIV,503; IV,524 pp. First Swedish edition; first English edition published in London the same year New land: four years in the Arctic regions. - On the way north in 1898, the ship met with severe ice north of Smith Sound, and had to spend the winter of 1898-1899 to the north-west of Pim Island, situated off the east coast of Ellesmere Island. As a result, the expedition turned into vast unknown regions and, from a geographical viewpoint, became one of the most triumphant arctic ventures of all time (Liljequist, High latitudes, p. 232). The second Fram Expedition, 1898-1902, under Sverdrup, charted a total of 260.000 square kilometres - the largest area ever investigated by a surface-based polar expedition (Howgego III, p.622). It filled in the last major unknown area on the map of the Canadian Arctic. - A fine copy. Arctic Bibliography 17324; Stam, Books on ice, p.67.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nytt land. Fyra år i polartrakterna
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Arctic