Author: DEKKER, Kees & Frieda van ESSEN. Title: De Nederlandse Poolexpeditie van 1882-1893. Overwintering op een ijsschots.
Description: Zeist, KNNV, 2014. 4to. Boards. With many illustrations (several in colours. 200 pp. The year 1882 was the first International Pole Year and Dutch meteorologists participated by exploring western Siberia, initiator was Buys Ballot. The crew shipwrecked in the Kara Sea near Novaya Zemlya and was forced to spend the winter in the middle of the frozen sea.
Keywords: Arctic Nova Zembla Pole
Price: EUR 49.50 = appr. US$ 53.80 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 36299