New Land: Four Years in the Arctic Regions, in Two Volumes

Complete in two volumes. xvi, 496; xii, 504 pp. 8vo. Original navy blue cloth, silver titles, silver Arctic motif on front boards. Numerous photographs throughout, including many plates. A biographical account of Arctic expeditions by the companion of Fridtjof Nansen during his Fram Expedition, who later commanded the ship in other voyages. Scientific appendices with geological, botanical, zoological, and meteorological data, as well as extensive index, follow text. Arctic Bibliography 17322: "Translation of Nyt land; fire aar i arktiske egne, with the addition of the following scientific appendices, each of which appears in this Bibliography under it's author's name. 1. Schei, P. Preliminary account of the geological investigations made during the second Norwegian polar expedition in the 'Fram'; 2. Simmons, Herman G. Summary of the botanical work of the expedition, and its results. 3. Bay, E. Animal life in King Oscar Land, and the neighboring tracts. 4. Simmons, Herman G. Summary of the meteorological observations." Sverdrup started his Arctic expeditions with Nansen, and was given command of the Fram in 1893. He undertook a second expedition with the ship in 1898, and (unsuccessful in a circumnavigation of Greenland) overwintered on Ellesmere Island. He overwintered in the three successive years as well, charting a vast terrain, and discovering what are now named the Sverdrup Islands.