Die Amerikanische Nordpol-Expedition [Paperback]

An illustrated account of the 18713 American Arctic Expedition, including scientific data on Greenland and descriptions of Inuit life.The German surgeon Emil Bessels (184788) was head of the scientific team on the American-sponsored Polaris Expedition to the Arctic in 18713. In this illustrated 1879 work, written for a popular audience, he describes the explorer's hazardous experiences in Greenland and presents key scientific data from the expedition.The German surgeon Emil Bessels (184788) was head of the scientific team on the American-sponsored Polaris Expedition to the Arctic in 18713. In this illustrated 1879 work, written for a popular audience, he describes the explorer's hazardous experiences in Greenland and presents key scientific data from the expedition.The German surgeon and explorer Emil Bessels (184788) was head of the scientific team on the American-sponsored Polaris Expedition, which in 18713 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. Astonishingly, they survived, but much of the expedition's scientific research remained unpublished as a result of financial wrangling. This 1879 publication is a popular account of the journey, with a substantial scientific appendix based on the expedition papers and additional data shared with Bessels by Sir George Nares. It describes the expedition's landfalls from Newfoundland to Greenland, and experiences, including temperatures so low that mercury froze, hunting for polar bears and seals for food, and the help provided by the local Inuit, whose language, traditions and burial customs Bessels outlines. The book also contains over eighty illustrations, mostly woodcuts.Vorwort; 1. Ursprung der Expedition und deren Ausr?stung; 2. Von New-York nach Neufundland; 3. Von Neufundland nach Gr?nland; 4. Von Holsteenborg nach der n?rdlichsten Ansiedelung der Erde; 5. Historischer R?ckblick; 6. Nach dem unbekannten Gebl£0