Narrative of an Expedition to the East Coast of Greenland
Sent by Order of the King of Denmark, in Search of the Lost Colonies, under the Command of Captain W. A. Graah of the Danish Royal Navy

Reissued here in its 1837 English translation, this work recounts the harrowing 1828–31 Danish expedition to Greenland.

Wilhelm August Graah (Author), George Gordon Macdougall (Translated by)

9781108075145, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 April 2014

224 pages, 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.29 kg

In 1828 a Danish expedition was sent out from Copenhagen under the command of the naval officer and explorer Wilhelm August Graah (1793–1863). Its goal was to locate lost Norse settlements on the coast of Greenland, which had existed in certain places from around the turn of the millennium until their collapse some centuries later. The Danes did not find any settlement where they searched on the eastern coast, and the men endured harrowing conditions and near starvation during three winters. First published in Danish in 1832 and reissued here in its 1837 English translation, Graah's work opens with a brief history of the exploration and colonisation of Greenland before recounting his own expedition. Observations on the Greenlandic Inuit are incorporated as well. Addressing what was known about the Norse settlements at that time, the appendix also contains the expedition's scientific observations.

Preface
Introduction
Voyage to Greenland, 1828
Voyage in a boat to Juliana's-Hope, 1828–9
Expedition to the east coast, 1829
Wintering at Nukarbik
Fruitless attempt to penetrate further north, return
Appendix.

Subject Areas: Historical geography [HBTP]