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Hardcover Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap Book

ISBN: 0393868117

ISBN13: 9780393868111

Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap

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By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed "Gino"), a twenty-three-year-old British explorer, led thirteen scientists and explorers on an ambitious expedition to the east coast of Greenland and into its vast and forbidding interior to set up a permanent...

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