Die Amerikanische Nordpol-Expedition
The German surgeon and explorer Emil Bessels (1847–88) was head of the scientific team on the American-sponsored Polaris Expedition, which in 1871–3 made an unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole. Some of the crew spent months adrift on an ice floe and others were marooned in Greenland. Astoni...
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Cambridge University Press
2011
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139151580 |