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New Lands Within the Arctic Circle: Narrative of the Discoveries of the Austrian Ship Tegetthoff in the Years 1872 1874

New Lands Within the Arctic Circle: Narrative of the Discoveries of the Austrian Ship Tegetthoff in the Years 1872 1874

Payer, Julius
Von Payer, Julius

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General World History

ISBN10: 1108041450
ISBN13: 9781108041454
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 29 2011
Pages: 326
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This two-volume work by the nineteenth-century Arctic explorer and artist Julius von Payer (1841-1915), originally published in German and translated into English almost immediately in 1876, documents his experiences during the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition, which he commanded from 1872 to 1874 with his colleague Karl Weyprecht. Early into the expedition, of which the original aim was to find a north-eastern passage, their ship, the Tegetthoff, became trapped in ice, and its resultant drifting into unknown territories led to the discovery of Franz-Josef Land. Volume 2 describes the crew's exploration of Franz-Josef Land by sledge, and their survival by means of bear-hunting, rationing of food, and making clothes from animal skins, in severe weather conditions, and encountering the challenges posed by icebergs and glaciers, until they were able to make their way to safety. The work contains both maps and paintings, the latter by von Payer himself.

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