SVERDRUP, KAPITAN OTTO (3 risultati)

Brockhaus Verl. Leipzig 1903, 576 und 542 S., 225 Abb., 69 Seperatbilder auf Tafeln, 9 farb. Faltkarten, beide Titelblätter fehlen ebenso das Porträt von Band 1 vor dem Titel und Teilnehmerfoto Band 2 vor dem Titel!!, der Erste Band mit zwei kleinen Löchern auf Einbanddeckel, einige Seiten am Rand eingedrückt, Da die Bücher aus Lettland verschickt werden, beträgt die Versandkostenpauschale unabhängig der Menge 6 EUR bis 30 kg nach Deutschland und 12 EUR innerhalb der EU-Länder!.

Octavo. First German edition. Two volumes, uniformly bound. Tan coloured cloth with gold gilt and black lettering and decorations stamped to the front board and spine; silver gilt and black illustration of the Fram and colour illustration mounted to the front board. Patterned endpapers. Heavily illustrated with 225 in-text illustrations and sixty-nine full page plates with nine maps, six of which are large folding colour maps. previous owner's signature to the verso of the ffep of both volumes. Some light rubbing to the head and tail of both spines. A tight and clean set in very good condition. The German edition of Arctic Bibliography 17324. Narrative of the second Fram Expedition, 1898-1902, under Sverdrup; this expedition filled in the last major unknown area on the map of the western Arctic and was published in English the same year as the Swedish edition as New Lands with some appendices added. An abridged version was published in Germany in the 1930s.

2 Bände (cpl.). Gr.-8° (23.5 x 16.5 x 5 bzw. 4.5 cm). XI+1, 1 Bl., 576 u. X, 542 SS. Schriftsatz in 7-Punkt Fraktur, Druck a. satiniertem Papier. Je photogr. Portr.-Front., zahlreiche photogr. Tafeln u. Abbildungen, 6 farb. (Falt-) Karten a. 4 Bll., bzw. 3 farb. Faltkarten i. Anhang (so cpl.). OFeinleinen (erdbraun, lamin.; leicht berieben u. min. fleckig) mit vergold. (R-) Titel, schwarzem Dekor u. mont. farb. Deckelbildern (diese etwas berieben). Erste (einzige) dt. Ausgabe. Vord. Vorsatzspiegel v. Bd. 1 marginal etwas beschabt; Seiten unterschiedlich etwas fingerfleckig (v.a. äusserste Lagen v. Bd. 1), Karten mit einigen marginalen Reparaturstellen, teilw. etwas griffknittrig u. v.a. marginal u. verso unterschiedlich (stock-) fleckig (Darstellungen kaum tangiert). Etwas Alters- u. spezifischere Gebrauchsspuren. Gesamthaft weitgehend sauberes, sehr ordentliches Exemplar. - - Norwegische Originalausgabe 1903 u.d.T.: Nyt land. Fire aar i arktiske egne (Kristiania, Aschehoug; Norweg. VK) - Englische Übersetzung 1904 u.d.T.: New land. Four years in the Arctic regions, by Otto Sverdrup (London u.a., Longmans, Green, and Co.; Brit.Lib.) - "Otto Sverdrup's polar expedition report New Land (Nyt land), a two volume work from 1903, from the second Fram expedition 1898-1902 to north-west Greenland and northern Canada, is in comparison never reprinted. He is not in the Polar library. And his name is among readers of travelogues very much forgotten. Why is this, and what kind of book is New Land?" (researchgate net, online; diese Fram-/Sverdrup-Expedition nicht in Greenland timeline, schudak de) - Im September 1896 gelangte Fridtjof Nansen an Otto Sverdrup mit der Frage, ob er, Sverdrup, "eine neue Reise nach dem Norden zu unternehmen" bereit wäre (p. 1). "Ich kann nur sagen, daß ich mich über das ehrenvolle Anerbieten freute. Auf der Karte dort oben im Norden war noch Verschiedenes weiß, auf das norwegische Farbe aufzusetzen mir sicherlich Vergnügen machen würde. Damit war die Reise beschlossen. Mit Dr. Nansen und meinen Rhedern [sic] einigte ich mich über folgende Route für die neue Polarexpedition: Hinauf sollten wir durch den Smithsund und das Kanebecken, durch den Kennedysund und Robbensund längs der Nordküste von Grönland so weit wie möglich nach Norden, um dort zu überwintern; von dort aus sollten Schlittenexpeditionen nach der Nordspitze von Grönland unternommen und darauf an der Ostküste so weit hinunter gefahren werden, als wir kommen könnten. Vom Vordringen zum Nordpol war keine Rede." (p. 1 f.) - Sverdrup stellt sodann die 15 Expeditionsteilnehmer näher vor (mit Geburtsdatum u. -Ort, sowie deren einschlägigen Qualifikationen) und schildert den Start in die lange Reise: "Am Johannistage, 24. Juni 1898 waren wir seeklar." (p. 5) -- "Due to the formidable success with the First Fram Expedition, the financing of the second one was not a problem. [.] The expedition focused on science. Scientists representing zoology, geology, botany, cartography and meteorology, participated. On midsummer's day 1898 the Fram left Kristiania (Oslo) with 16 men on board. The main object of the expedition was to map the unknown north part of Greenland and some white spots on the east coast of Greenland. [.] On the 18th of August 1898 the expedition was stopped by ice at Pim Island at Ellesmere Island. Efforts to penetrate the Kane Basin were in vain. Now the Fram had entered her first winter harbour. [.] Before the winter starts, expeditions were sent out to investigate and map unknown areas of Ellesmere Island and to collect scientific data. Preparations for the winter were made. [.] The summer [1899] was used for mapping unknown areas, hunting and collecting scientific data and material. [.] One of the main expeditions starts when spring [1900] is arriving. [.] In early August Sverdrup tries, without success, to penetrate Cardigan Strait and Helvetesporten (Hells Gate) to get farther north. In the middle of September he finds a safe haven in Gåsefjorden. [.] In March [1901] preparations are made for the most extensive expeditions so far. [.] The question with regard to Axel Heiberg's Land being an island or a part of Ellesmere Island needed to be clarified. [.] Isachsen and Hassel [.] mapped Amund and Ellef Ringnes islands, the Eastern part of Kong Christian's Land and the northern North Cornwall. [.] North Devon was mapped during the summer. It was found that Grinnell Island was a peninsula, not an island. The job was done. [.] Due to the circumstances, one more year [1901-02] had to be spent. [.] The 'Fram' was now in the area where the Franklin expedition with two ships and 130 men disappeared in 1845. [.] Sverdrup went north together with Schei on a final expedition, a trip of 77 days with a distance of 1550 km. Sverdrup reached a point he named Land Lokk at 81 degrees 40 minutes north. This came to be the northernmost point during all the years they stayed in the area. [-] The results of the expedition were magnificent. 150 000 square kilometres of new land had been mapped. No expedition, before or later, has discovered and mapped an area of the same size. [.] Sverdrup claimed Norwegian sovereignty over the newly discovered area. Neither the united kingdom (Norway and Sweden), nor the later independent Kingdom of Norway showed any interest in Sverdrup's claim." (frammuseum no, online) - "Otto Sverdrup is one of our country's foremost polar explorers, equal to Fridtjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen. It is a shame to which extent his great exploits have been overlooked. It is high time that Otto Sverdrup's important achievements are made known in our country. (Helge Ingstad)" (ibid.). -- NETTOGEWICHT / Net weight / Poids: 3.6 kg - VERSANDKATEGORIE / Weight category / Poids brut 5 kg - Sprache: de.