Stranded at the Top of the World: A Story of Exploration and Heroic Rescue in the Arctic

by Cornelia Lüdecke and Mary R. Tahan

This book provides a well-researched, well-structured, interesting, and informative narrative depicting the little-known yet successful efforts of the Captain Arve Staxrud Norwegian Arctic Rescue Expedition of 1913 that searched for and saved members of the Lieutenant Herbert Schroder-Stranz German Arctic Expedition of 1912 in Spitsbergen (Svalbard). The book portrays the cooperative and strategic endeavors of the humans and animals involved in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031562879
• ISBN13: 9783031562877
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 369 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"