New Land
Four Years in the Arctic Regions
2 volume Set
Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
- Author: Otto Neumann Sverdrup
- Translator: Ethel Harriet Hearn
- Date Published: April 2014
- availability: Available
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108071123
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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, charting and mapping the seas and coastlines of the Arctic. Sverdrup had qualified as a ship's master when he first met Fridtjof Nansen, and took part in the Greenland expedition of 1888. 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, living like the Inuit while exploring as yet undiscovered islands and charting a total of over 250,000 square kilometres.
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- Date Published: April 2014
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108071123
- length: 1044 pages
- dimensions: 233 x 152 x 65 mm
- weight: 1.35kg
- contains: 221 b/w illus. 6 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Preface
Translator's note
1. Introduction
2. In the drift-ice across the coast of Greenland
3. In Foulke Fjord
4. Walrus-catching in Rice Strait
5. Our first meeting with the polar ox
6. A deserted country
7. Our life on board
8. Greely's camping-ground
9. An unsuccessful shooting-trip
10. Eskimo visits on board the Fram
11. Across Ellesmere Land
12. Constitution Day on board the Fram
13. Summer journeys
14. Bears and polar oxen
15. Dr Svendsen's fate
16. Summer work
17. Sledge-journeys ashore and afloat
18. In summer waters
19. Walrus-catching
20. The Fram's second winter harbour
21. Boating expeditions in Havnefjord
22. Captivity in Baadsfjord
23. A sad home-coming
24. Arduous journeys
25. An awkward bear-hunt
26. Stormkap
27. Happy hunting grounds
28. Home to the Fram
29. Carrying meat in the polar night
30. The polar dog and its ailments
31. In winter quarters
32. A merry Christmas and a happy new year
33. Björneborg
34. The great expedition
35. Through Hell Gate
36. Store and Lille Björnekap
37. Towards Cape South-West
38. A toilsome journey
39. Easter in Heiberg Land
40. Through drift and scud
41. Bad-weather camp
42. Towards the north!
43. The return journey
44. A journey of peril
45. Back to Björneborg
46. The commandant's hermit life
47. Fire on board the Fram
48. Schie's narrative
49. The returning party's experiences. Volume 2:
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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