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Author Quervain, Alfred de, 1879-1927, author.

Title Across Greenland's ice cap : the remarkable Swiss scientific expedition of 1912 / Alfred de Quervain
Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022

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Contents Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface to This Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Alfred De Quervain's Scientific Legacy: An Appraisal -- About The Colour Plates -- A Note on the Text -- Translators' Foreword -- Author's Preface -- Plans and Preparations -- The Sea Voyage -- Old Friends -- The Dog School -- Northward With The Fox -- Crossing The Rock Border -- To The Inland Ice Lake -- Over The Top Of Greenland's Firn Region -- Eastern Mountains Ahead! -- To Angmagssalik By Umiak -- With The Eastern Eskimos -- Return Via Iceland: Scientific Results -- The Summer Of The Western Party -- A Winter In Greenland -- About The Authors, Translators, And Editors -- Index
Summary "As polar exploration reached its zenith, and in the same month that Captain Robert Falcon Scott perished in Antarctica, four young scientists from Zurich took ship for Greenland. Though they had little previous experience of arctic travel, their ambition was to achieve the first west-to-east crossing of the northern hemisphere's largest ice cap, making scientific observations along the way. Few outside Switzerland have heard of this expedition or its leader, the meteorologist Alfred de Quervain, in spite of its success. In thirty-one days in the summer of 1912, the party sledded across 640 kilometers of untracked snow and ice. Nobody died or fell into a crevasse, although there were some near misses. The voyage was more than a well-executed feat of arctic travel: de Quervain and his colleagues collected data still used today by scientists researching the effects of climate change on Greenland's ice cap. De Quervain's popular account of his adventures, published in German in 1914, is both a minor classic of exploration literature and a sympathetic portrayal of life in Greenland's remote coastal settlements in the early twentieth century. Published to coincide with the expedition's 110th anniversary, Across Greenland's Ice Cap includes the explorer's original text, translated into English by his daughter and son-in-law; a historical and biographical introduction by Martin Hood; reflections on the journey's scientific legacy by the geographers Andreas Vieli and Martin Lüthi; and a treasure trove of hand-tinted lantern slides reproduced in full colour."-- Provided by publisher
Notes Translation of: Quer durchs Grönlandeis: Die Expeditionen 1909 und 1912/13
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Quervain, Alfred de, 1879-1927 -- Travel -- Greenland
SUBJECT Schweizerische Grönland-Expedition (1912-1913) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99014358
Subject Scientific expeditions -- Greenland
HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries
Discoveries in geography
Scientific expeditions
Travel
SUBJECT Greenland -- Discovery and exploration
Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006958
Subject Arctic Regions
Greenland
Form Electronic book
ISBN 022801266X
9780228012665
Other Titles Quer durchs Grönlandeis. English