The First Crossing Of Greenland

The Daring Expedition that Launched Arctic Exploration

Fridtjof Nansen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2023
Gibson Square Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78334-230-3 (ISBN)

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This exploration classic was the first arctic bestseller and it is gripping narrative spawned the arctic expeditions that followed and a whole new genre of writing in the golden age of exploration. Includes the original photographs.

Before Fridtjof Nansen's Greenland expedition of 1888, the vast impenetrable arctic regions exasperated nineteenth-century scientists. The twenty-six-year-old thought he knew better. Convinced that he would succeed by skiing, a sport practically unknown at the time, he put together a group of only six members to cross the arctic interior of Greenland for the first time. They would pull their own sledges and, on a shoe-string, arrange transport to Greenland on two steam liners to drop them off in the icy Arctic sea. They could only afford a basic camera to document their trip. Astonishingly, this audacious but much criticised plan succeeded! Nansen's riveting expedition classic including his diary entries are here republished for the first time in full. His words and captivating expedition photographs caught with a student camera set in motion a golden age of exploration.

Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) was the spiritual mentor to Amundsen, Scott and Shackleton and single-handedly made polar expeditions as popular as they are now. Drawn to extremes, obstinate and a restless Faustian character, he was a gifted writer, scientist and diplomat who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922.

Map of Greenland 12
Introduction 13
1. The Equipment 26
2. Skis and Skiing 46
3. Voyage to Iceland 54
4. Cruising the Ice 60
5. Point of No Return 70
6. Danger 76
7. Adrift 87
8. Land in Sight, at Last 101
9. Cape Bille 116
10 An Icy Greenland Idyll 134
11. Rapid Progress 148
12. Glaciers and “Nunataks” 163
13. The Conquest of the Inland Ice 174
14. 7930 Feet above Sea Level 190
15. Snowstorms of the Interior 205
16. Shipwreck on the Icy Plains 216
17. Water, but no Land 226
18. Rocks and Land 236
19. Splitting Up 247
20. A Change in Fortune 253
21. Ny Herrnhut 261
22. Civilisation 270
23. Winter Quarters 275
24. The Hvidbjörnen 282

Erscheinungsdatum	17.05.2023
Zusatzinfo	60 b/w illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Welt / Arktis / Antarktis
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	1-78334-230-7 / 1783342307
ISBN-13	978-1-78334-230-3 / 9781783342303
Zustand	Neuware