Fridtjof Nansen

In Northern Mists (eBook, PDF)

Arctic Exploration in Early Times

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780243751648
• Artikelnr.: 59114070

Autorenporträt

Fridtjof Nansen was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, scientist, diplomat and humanitarian. He led the team that made the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, traversing the island on cross-country skis.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Antiquity, before Pytheas
2. Pytheas of Massalia: the voyage to Thule
3. Antiquity, after Pytheas
4. The early middle ages
5. The awakening of medieval knowledge of the north
6. Finns, Skridfinns, and the first settlement of Scandinavia
7. The voyages of the Norsemen: discovery of Iceland and Greenland
8. Voyages to the uninhabited parts of Greenland in the middle ages
9. Wineland the Good, the Fortunate Isles, and the discovery of America.