Author: Orléans, Louis Philippe Robert (duc d').
Title: La revanche de la banquise. Un été de dérivé dans la mer de Kara. Juin-Septembre, 1907.
Description: Paris, Libraire Plon, Plon-Nourrit et Cie., 1909. [VII],288 pp. Over [140] b./w. text-ills, 39 tables, [23] b./w. plts & 8 (partly fold. / partly col.) maps/charts. Modern hardcover (green linen), gilt title on the spine, orig. frontcover mounted on the cover. - Frontcover, pages & plates with some foxing.Rather rare first edition of this impressive report of the adventures aboard the ship Belgica, a barque-rigged steamship that was built in 1884 by Christian Brinch Jørgensen at Svelvik, Norway as the whaler Patria, in the summer months of 1907. In 1907-09 the Belgica was used in an expedition to the Arctic to conduct studies in oceanography and natural science. The ship, headed by Philippe, Duke of Orléans, and captained by Adrien de Gerlache, headed northeast for the Barents and Kara Seas. It was planned to map Arctic Russia, but these plans were abandoned when Belgica again became trapped in ice on the 16th of july 1907.

Keywords: Ethnography Travel Russia Polar Exploration Etnografie Reizen Rusland Poolreizen