| Journals in Greenland: Being Extracts from a Journal Kept in That Country in the Years 1770-1778 Contributor(s): Egede, Hans (Author) |
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ISBN: 0982170300 ISBN-13: 9780982170304 Publisher: International Polar Institute OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2009 Annotation: A firsthand account of previously almost inaccessible eastern Greenland |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Polar Regions - History | Expeditions & Discoveries - History | Modern - General |
| Series: Adventures in New Lands |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 4.2" W x 5.1" (0.45 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Arctic/Antarctic - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Hans Egede's remarkable 1770-1778 journals were first published in 1818 when the British launched their great nineteenth-century Arctic explorations and such information was in enormous demand. The coast of eastern Greenland had been virtually inaccessible to Europeans for four centuries. Egede's fascinating writings relate his determined quest for remnants of old settlements, keen observations of the Greenlandic Inuit on subjects as varied as polygamy, witchcraft, health, education, how the Inuit's contact with outsiders affected this indigenous people, and previously little-known information about the geography of the island's eastern territories. After years of being out-of-print, Egede's colorful accounts are once again made available to English-speaking readers in this wonderful and timely new series, launched just as the eyes of the world are, not a moment too soon, drawn northward. |