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)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration, Volume 2
Release date:	May 2012
First published:	April 2012
Authors:	Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskioeld
Translators:	Alexander Leslie
Dimensions:	216 x 29 x 140mm (L x W x H)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	506
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-04984-9
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Historical geography Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Geographical discovery & exploration Promotions
LSN:	1-108-04984-2
Barcode:	9781108049849

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