Across Greenland's Ice Cap (Hardcover)

Langue : anglais

Edité par McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, 2022

0228010667 / 9780228010661

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Hardcover. As polar exploration reached its zenith, and in the same month that Captain Robert Falcon Scott perished in Antarctica, four young scientists from Zurich took ship for Greenland. Though they had little previous experience of arctic travel, their ambition was to achieve the first west-to-east crossing of the northern hemispheres largest ice cap, making scientific observations along the way.Few outside Switzerland have heard of this expedition or its leader, the meteorologist Alfred de Quervain, in spite of its success. In thirty-one days in the summer of 1912, the party sledded across 640 kilometres of untracked snow and ice. Nobody died or fell into a crevasse, although there were some near misses. The voyage was more than a well-executed feat of arctic travel: de Quervain and his colleagues collected data still used today by scientists researching the effects of climate change on Greenlands ice cap. De Quervains popular account of his adventures, published in German in 1914, is both a minor classic of exploration literature and a sympathetic portrayal of life in Greenlands remote coastal settlements in the early twentieth century.Published to coincide with the expeditions 110th anniversary, Across Greenlands Ice Cap includes the explorers original text, translated into English by his daughter and son-in-law; a historical and biographical introduction by Martin Hood; reflections on the journeys scientific legacy by the geographers Andreas Vieli and Martin Luethi; and a treasure trove of hand-tinted lantern slides reproduced in full colour. In the summer of 1912, four young scientists sledded across 640km of untracked snow and ice, crossing central Greenland from west to east for the first time. This minor classic of exploration literature by the expeditions leader, Alfred de Quervain, is a sympathetic portrayal of life in remote coastal settlements in the early twentieth century. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titre
Across Greenland's Ice Cap (Hardcover)
Auteur
Alfred de Quervain
Éditeur
McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal
Année de publication
2022
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0228010667
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780228010661

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