The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe
Alexander Leslie
£46.00
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 1 includes details of the flora, fauna, people and geology encountered on the journey from Tromso to the Bering Strait, along with a review of previous exploration in the region.
Product details
May 2012Paperback
9781108049832
552 pages
216 × 140 × 31 mm
0.69kg
121 b/w illus.
Available
.jpg)
.jpg)
Table of Contents
- Author's preface
- Translator's preface
- Introduction
- 1. Departure
- 2. Departure from Maosoe
- 3. From the animal world of Novaya Zemlya
- 4. The origin of the names Yugor Schar and Kara Sea
- 5. The history of the North-East Passage
- 6. The north-east voyages of the Russians and Norwegians
- 7. Departure from Port Dickson
- 8. The voyage of the Fraser and the Express up the Yenisej
- 9. The new Siberian islands
- 10. Wintering becomes necessary.
