Die Amerikanische Nordpol-Expedition
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- Author: Emil Bessels
- Date Published: December 2011
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108041478
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The German surgeon and explorer Emil Bessels (1847–88) was head of the scientific team on the American-sponsored Polaris Expedition, which in 1871–3 made an unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole. Some of the crew spent months adrift on an ice floe and others were marooned in Greenland. Astonishingly, they survived, but much of the expedition's scientific research remained unpublished as a result of financial wrangling. This 1879 publication is a popular account of the journey, with a substantial scientific appendix based on the expedition papers and additional data shared with Bessels by Sir George Nares. It describes the expedition's landfalls from Newfoundland to Greenland, and experiences, including temperatures so low that mercury froze, hunting for polar bears and seals for food, and the help provided by the local Inuit, whose language, traditions and burial customs Bessels outlines. The book also contains over eighty illustrations, mostly woodcuts.
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- Date Published: December 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108041478
- length: 694 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 39 mm
- weight: 1kg
- contains: 87 b/w illus. 1 map
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Vorwort
1. Ursprung der Expedition und deren Ausrüstung
2. Von New-York nach Neufundland
3. Von Neufundland nach Grönland
4. Von Holsteenborg nach der nördlichsten Ansiedelung der Erde
5. Historischer Rückblick
6. Nach dem unbekannten Gebiete
7. Die ersten Tage in Polaris-Bay
8. Die erste Schlittenreise
9. Hall's Schlittenreise
10. Im Banne der Finsterniss
11. Das neue Jahr
12. Durch Finsterniss zum Licht
13. Die Schlittenreise nach Süden
14. Der Vorsommer
15. Die Bootfahrt nach Norden
16. Der Sommer
17. Nach Süden
18. Auf festem Boden
19. Eine ethnographische Skizze
20. Weitere Schritte
21. Der Beginn der Schollenfahrt
22. Zwischen Hoffnungslosigkeit und Zuversicht
23. Der Frühling auf der Scholle
24. Die Robben
25. Die Erlösung
26. Die Bootfahrt durch's Eismeer
27. Auf dem Walfischfang
28. Die Fahndung
29. Die Heimkehr
Wissenschaftlicher Anhang:
1. Hydrographie
2. Erdmagnetismus und Nordlichter
3. Meteorologie
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