New Land
Four Years in the Arctic Regions
Volume 2
Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
- Author: Otto Neumann Sverdrup
- Translator: Ethel Harriet Hearn
- Date Published: April 2014
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108071116
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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 2 describes the remainder of the expedition's time on the ice, and also the results of the various scientific surveys made by the crew.
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- Date Published: April 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108071116
- length: 526 pages
- dimensions: 150 x 230 x 30 mm
- weight: 0.8kg
- contains: 109 b/w illus. 3 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Isachsen relates
2. Summer journeys and fertility
3. Westward with the ship
4. To Gaasefjord
5. Happy hunting grounds
6. Snowstorm and misfortunes
7. Before the polar night
8. A wolf winter
9. Christmas and new year
10. New land!
11. Spring journeys, 1901
12. Troldfjord
13. A polar idyl
14. Heureka!
15. A dying people
16. Seventeenth of May
17. Towards the south!
18. To Skaarefjord
19. Björnesund and Ulvefjord
20. A stony land
21. Fuglefjord
22. A surveyor's life
23. Fosheim's account
24. Isachsen and Hassel's journey, spring, 1901
25. Spring journeys and summer impressions
26. North Devon and St Helena
27. Closed in and shut out
28. Hunting for winter food
29. The fourth winter and spring
30. To Smörgrautberget
31. Seventeenth of May
32. Blaamanden and Bay Fjord
33. Home to the Fram
34. Our comrades' experiences
35. The last summer
36. Homeward!
Summary of expenses incurred
Scientific appendices 1-4
Index.-
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