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The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe - With a Historical Review of Previous Journeys along the North Coast of the Old World (Paperback)
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The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe - With a Historical Review of Previous Journeys along the North Coast of the Old World (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration, Volume 2
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The Finnish geologist and Arctic explorer A. E. Nordenskioeld
(1832-1901) spent much of his life in exile in Sweden, where he was
made a baron. He served as Superintendent of the Mineralogical
Department of the Swedish Royal Museum, and later became a Member
of the Swedish Academy. Following a number of expeditions during
the 1860s, he concluded that the North Pole could not be reached by
ship, and in 1872 he tried unsuccessfully to reach it overland. A
great historian of cartography, he amassed a huge collection of
maps, now included in UNESCO's 'Memory of the World' Register. This
two-volume work, published in Swedish in 1881, describes his most
famous voyage, the first crossing of the North-East Passage. Volume
2 follows the expedition from the Bering Strait to Yokohama in
Japan, and the return journey to Sweden, through the India Ocean,
the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean, in 1879.
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