New Land 2 Volume Set: Four Years in the Arctic Regions

by Otto Neumann Sverdrup

This 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, charting and mapping the seas and coastlines of the Arctic. Sverdrup had qualified as a ship's master when he first met Fridtjof Nansen, and took part in the Greenland expedition of 1888. He advised on the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108071120
• ISBN13: 9781108071123
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 1044 Pages
• Weight: 2.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"