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An Adventurous Life: Johan Koren, polar explorer and naturalist

An Adventurous Life: Johan Koren, polar explorer and naturalist

Harboe-Ree, Cathrine
Wikan, Steinar

Paperback

Series: Natural History, Book 1

Adventurers & ExplorersBiographies GeneralArctic History

Publisher Price: $72.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 22, 2026

ISBN10: 1760467529
ISBN13: 9781760467524
Publisher: Anu Press
Published: Oct 22 2026
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.73
Height: 0.91 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

Johan Koren commenced a life of exploration at the age of 17, when he attained a position on the RV Belgica, leaving his native Norway in 1897 on an expedition to the Antarctic. Trapped by ice floes closing in around them, Koren and his fellow crew members over-wintered in the Antarctic, the first people ever to do so.An ardent naturalist by the time he became an orphan at age 11, this far-from-ordinary teenager was to grow into an extraordinary adult, participating in expeditions in the polar north and south and becoming a ship's captain leading expeditions in northeastern Siberia and Alaska. During a period in which museums and private collectors clamoured for rare flora and fauna specimens, Koren's personal qualities and professional expertise made him almost uniquely qualified for their pursuit. Enduring shipwrecks in the sub-Antarctic and polar north, destructive storms and the deaths of expedition companions, and surviving for a time in Siberia with assistance from local Chukchi people, Koren would eventually make important ornithological discoveries and have bird and animal species named after him by the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.'An Adventurous Life' is the first English-language translation of Steinar Wikan's comprehensive biographical study, published in Norwegian in 2000. Cathrine Harboe-Ree's careful and sensitive translation will make known to the world the remarkable story of this major figure of polar exploration and zoology.

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