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Ships of wood and men of iron
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ISBN: 9786611967819 1554882923 1281967815 1280578122 9786613607874 1770704477 9781554882922 9781897045060 1897045069 1897045069 Year: 2005 Publisher: Toronto Natural Heritage Books

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A history of explorations of the Arctic in Canada, beginning with Otto Sverdrups 18981902 Norwegian expedition.


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New Land : Four Years in the Arctic Regions.
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ISBN: 1107281296 1108071112 Year: 1904 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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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 and charting the seas and coastlines of the Arctic. Sverdrup had qualified as a ship's master when he first met Fridtjof Nansen, whose Greenland expedition of 1888 he accompanied. He advised on the construction of Nansen's wooden ship, the Fram, and became its master in 1895. Both with Nansen and under his own leadership, he undertook many expeditions. In June 1898, he took the Fram and a crew including several scientists to Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic, where they overwintered for four years. Volume 2 describes the remainder of the expedition's time on the ice, and also the results of the various scientific surveys made by the crew.

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