{"product_id":"new-land-four-years-in-the-arctic-regions-paperback-9781108071116","title":"New Land; Four Years in the Arctic Regions (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108071116","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNew Land\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFour Years in the Arctic Regions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA 1904 account of the expedition of Otto Sverdrup and his crew to the seas and coastlines of the Arctic.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eOtto Neumann Sverdrup (Author), Ethel Harriet Hearn (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108071116, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 April 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e526 pages, 109 b\/w illus.  3 maps\u003cbr\u003e15 x 23 x 3 cm, 0.8 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis well-illustrated account of polar exploration was originally published in Norway in 1903, and in this two-volume English translation in 1904. It tells the story of the four years spent by Otto Sverdrup (1854–1930) and his crew in surveying and charting the seas and coastlines of the Arctic. Sverdrup had qualified as a ship's master when he first met Fridtjof Nansen, whose Greenland expedition of 1888 he accompanied. He advised on the construction of Nansen's wooden ship, the Fram, and became its master in 1895. Both with Nansen and under his own leadership, he undertook many expeditions. In June 1898, he took the Fram and a crew including several scientists to Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic, where they overwintered for four years. Volume 2 describes the remainder of the expedition's time on the ice, and also the results of the various scientific surveys made by the crew.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Isachsen relates\u003cbr\u003e 2. Summer journeys and fertility\u003cbr\u003e 3. Westward with the ship\u003cbr\u003e 4. To Gaasefjord\u003cbr\u003e 5. Happy hunting grounds\u003cbr\u003e 6. Snowstorm and misfortunes\u003cbr\u003e 7. Before the polar night\u003cbr\u003e 8. A wolf winter\u003cbr\u003e 9. Christmas and new year\u003cbr\u003e 10. New land!\u003cbr\u003e 11. Spring journeys, 1901\u003cbr\u003e 12. Troldfjord\u003cbr\u003e 13. A polar idyl\u003cbr\u003e 14. Heureka!\u003cbr\u003e 15. A dying people\u003cbr\u003e 16. Seventeenth of May\u003cbr\u003e 17. Towards the south!\u003cbr\u003e 18. To Skaarefjord\u003cbr\u003e 19. Björnesund and Ulvefjord\u003cbr\u003e 20. A stony land\u003cbr\u003e 21. Fuglefjord\u003cbr\u003e 22. A surveyor's life\u003cbr\u003e 23. Fosheim's account\u003cbr\u003e 24. Isachsen and Hassel's journey, spring, 1901\u003cbr\u003e 25. Spring journeys and summer impressions\u003cbr\u003e 26. North Devon and St Helena\u003cbr\u003e 27. Closed in and shut out\u003cbr\u003e 28. Hunting for winter food\u003cbr\u003e 29. The fourth winter and spring\u003cbr\u003e 30. To Smörgrautberget\u003cbr\u003e 31. Seventeenth of May\u003cbr\u003e 32. Blaamanden and Bay Fjord\u003cbr\u003e 33. Home to the Fram\u003cbr\u003e 34. Our comrades' experiences\u003cbr\u003e 35. The last summer\u003cbr\u003e 36. Homeward!\u003cbr\u003e Summary of expenses incurred\u003cbr\u003e Scientific appendices 1-4\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Historical geography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Historical geography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Historical%20geography%20%5BHBTP%5D%22\"\u003eHBTP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266172342552,"sku":"9781108071116","price":43.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108071116i_4958dc99-1dd0-4419-92c0-304580c59321.jpg?v=1696748826","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/new-land-four-years-in-the-arctic-regions-paperback-9781108071116","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}