The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe
Alexander Leslie
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GBPThe Finnish geologist and Arctic explorer A. E. Nordenskiöld (1832–1901) spent much of his life in exile in Sweden, where he was made a baron. He served as Superintendent of the Mineralogical Department of the Swedish Royal Museum, and later became a Member of the Swedish Academy. Following a number of expeditions during the 1860s, he concluded that the North Pole could not be reached by ship, and in 1872 he tried unsuccessfully to reach it overland. A great historian of cartography, he amassed a huge collection of maps, now included in UNESCO's 'Memory of the World' Register. This two-volume work, published in Swedish in 1881, describes his most famous voyage, the first crossing of the North-East Passage. Volume 2 follows the expedition from the Bering Strait to Yokohama in Japan, and the return journey to Sweden, through the India Ocean, the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean, in 1879.
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May 2012Paperback
9781108049849
506 pages
216 × 29 × 140 mm
0.64kg
132 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- 11. Hope of release at the New Year
- 12. The history of the Chukches
- 13. The development of our knowledge of the north coast of Asia
- 14. Passage through Behring's Straits
- 15. The position of Behring Island
- 16. Arrival at Yokohama
- 17. Excursion to Asamayama
- 18. Farewell dinner at Yokohama
- 19. Hong Kong and Canton
- 20. The journey home
- Index.
