Danish Explorers: Vitus Bering, Knud Rasmussen, Eigil Knuth, Hans Egede, Therkel Mathiassen, Jens Munk, Peter Freuchen, Frits Holm, Fran

Chapters: Vitus Bering, Knud Rasmussen, Eigil Knuth, Hans Egede, Therkel Mathiassen, Jens Munk, Peter Freuchen, Frits Holm, Frans Blom, Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, Gustav Frederik Holm, Ejnar Mikkelsen, Christian Friedrich Ecklon, Hans Hendrik, Richard Parkinson, Barclay Raunkiaer, Christian Barnekow, Carl Ryder, Jacob Ulfeldt, Ole Olufsen, Frederic Louis Norden, Johan Peter Koch, Eberhard Isbrand Ides, Frederik Marcus Knuth. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 77. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Count Eigil Knuth (8 August 1903 12 March 1996) was a Danish explorer, archaeologist, sculptor and writer. He is referred to as the Nestor (elder statesman) of Danish polar explorers. His archaeological investigations were made in Peary Land and adjacent areas of High Arctic Greenland. Knuth was made a Knight of the Dannebrog. Knuth was born in Klampenborg, Denmark (near Copenhagen). His parents were count Eigil Knuth sr, a captain, and Djimphna (nee Gamel). His hero was the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen who, in 1888, was the first to cross the Greenland icecap; the trip was financed by State Councillor Augustinus Gamel, a Danish businessman, and Knuth's maternal grandfather. Gamel's birth gift to his grandson was a present Gamel had received from Nansen: the compass Nansen carried on his Greenland icecap expedition. Knuth studied building technology at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and then woodcarving at Val Gardena in Italy between 1926 and 1928. He published his first book, on the subject of philosophy, in 1927, revealing an affinity with the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. In 1932, Knuth graduated as a gymnastics teacher from Ollerup Physical Training College in Denmark. Knuth first trip to Greenland occurred in 1932 accompanying Dr. Aage Roussel from the Danish National ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=216133