New Land

• Main Author: Sverdrup, Otto Neumann
• Other Authors: Hearn, Ethel Harriet
• Format: Book
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2014
• Subjects: Arctic; Ellesmere Island; Fridtjof; Greenland; Norway; Fridtjof Nansen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107281295

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. Sve...