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100 1 _aHedin, Sven Anders,
_d1865-1952
245 1 0 _aVan pool tot pool
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-09-22
508 _aJeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg
520 _a"Van pool tot pool : Tweede reis : van de Noordpool naar den Aequator" by Hedin is a travel narrative and popular history of exploration written in the early 20th century. It follows a sweeping north-to-south journey that begins in Scandinavia and the Arctic, blending first-hand travel impressions with accessible retellings of historic polar expeditions, natural history, and cultural observation. The likely focus is on landscapes, peoples, and scientific exploration from the North Pole region toward the Equator, presented as an educational adventure for general readers. The opening of the work carries the reader from Stockholm by rail through Sweden’s forests and ore country to the Arctic Circle and Kiruna, then across the mountains to Narvik and by steamer along fjords to Tromsø, Hammerfest, and the storm-lashed North Cape, with vivid scenes of midnight sun, Sami life, and iron-ore ports. It then pivots to a compact, dramatic history of polar exploration, centering on Franklin’s doomed voyage of the Erebus and Terror: the icebound winters, Franklin’s death, the desperate sledge retreat, the “Dead Men’s Bay,” and later Inuit testimonies that illuminate the expedition’s end. Further chapters recount the German expedition to East Greenland (the ship Germania), its organized overwintering, scientific routines, arduous sledge journeys, and the stark realities of the polar night. The section closes by turning to the dangers of wildlife in that environment, beginning with an encounter with a polar bear. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cUtrecht: W. de Haan, 1913
653 _aVoyages and travels -- Juvenile literature
653 _aGeography -- Juvenile literature
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76913
999 _c117638
_d117638