Download or read book In Northern Mists Vol 1 2 written by Fridtjof Nansen and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-11 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Northern Mists" is one of the best-known works by a Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen. This carefully crafted DigiCat ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Volume 1: Antiquity, Before Pytheas Pytheas of Massalia: the Voyage to Thule Antiquity, After Pytheas The Early Middle Ages The Awakening of Mediæval Knowledge of the North Finns, Skridfinns (Lapps), and the First Settlement of Scandinavia The Voyages of the Norsemen: Discovery of Iceland and Greenland Voyages to the Uninhabited Parts of Greenland in the Middle Ages Wineland the Good, the Fortunate Isles, and the Discovery of America... Volume 2: Wineland the Good, the Fortunate Isles, and the Discovery of America Eskimo and Skræling The Decline of the Norse Settlements in Greenland Expeditions of the Norwegians to the White Sea, Voyages in the Polar Sea, Whaling and Sealing The North in Maps and Geographical Works of the Middle Ages John Cabot and the English Discovery of North America The Portuguese Discoveries in the North-West...
Download or read book In Northern Mists Vol 1 of 2 written by Fridtjof Nansen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from In Northern Mists, Vol. 1 of 2: Arctic Exploration in Early Times His book owes its existence in the first instance to a rash promise made some years ago to my friend Dr. J. Scott Keltie, of London, that I would try, when time permitted, to contribute a volume on the history of arctic voyages to his series of books on geographical exploration. The subject was an attractive one; I thought I was fairly familiar with it, and did not expect the book to take a very long time when once I made a start with it. On account of other studies it was a long while before I could do this but when at last I seriously took the work in hand, the subject in return monopolised my whole powers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book In Northern Mists Volume 1 of 2 Arctic Exploration in Early Times written by Nansen Fridtjof and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book In Northern Mists Volume 1 of 2 Arctic Exploration in Early Times The Original Classic Edition written by Fridtjof Nansen and published by Emereo Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of In Northern Mists (Volume 1 of 2) - Arctic Exploration in Early Times. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Fridtjof Nansen, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have In Northern Mists (Volume 1 of 2) - Arctic Exploration in Early Times in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside In Northern Mists (Volume 1 of 2) - Arctic Exploration in Early Times: Look inside the book: When our thoughts go back through the ages in a waking dream, an endless procession passes before us—like a singlePg 2 mighty epic of the human mind’s power of devotion to an idea, right or wrong—a procession of struggling, frost-covered figures in heavy clothes, some erect and powerful, others weak and bent so that they can scarcely drag themselves along before the sledges, many of them emaciated and dying of hunger, cold and scurvy; but all looking out before them towards the unknown, beyond the sunset, where the goal of their struggle is to be found. ...A find in the passage-graves of Mycenæ (fourteenth to twelfth century B.C.) of beads made of amber from the Baltic, besides many pieces of amber from the period of the Dorian migration (before the tenth century) found during the recent English excavations of the temple of Artemis at Sparta, furnish certain evidence that the Greek world had intercourse with the Baltic countries long before the Odyssey was put into writing in thePg 15 eighth century, even though the northern lands of this poem seem to have been limited by a communication by sea between the Black Sea and the Adriatic, running north of the Balkan peninsula. ...While some geographers, especiallyPg 16 the Ionians, placed them in the northern regions, beyond the Rhipæan Mountains, Hecatæus of Abdera (first half of the third century B.C.), who wrote a work about the Hyperboreans, collected from various sources, and more like a novel than anything else, declares that they dwelt far beyond the accessible regions, on the island of Elixœa in the farthest northern Oceanus, where the tired stars sink to rest, and where the moon is so near that one can easily distinguish the inequalities of its surface. About Fridtjof Nansen, the Author: In November Nansen announced his plan: when the ship passed latitude 83° he and Hjalmar Johansen would leave the ship with the dogs and make for the pole while Fram, under Sverdrup, continued its drift until it emerged from the ice in the North Atlantic. ...75 Whether this still-distant land was Franz Josef Land or a new discovery they did not know—they had only a rough sketch map to guide them.n 3 On 6 August they reached the edge of the ice, where they shot the last of their dogs—they had been killing the weakest regularly since 24 April, to feed the others.
Download or read book In Northern Mists Vol 2 written by Fridtjof Nansen and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from In Northern Mists, Vol. 2: Arctic Exploration in Early Times A confirmation of the identity of Wineland and the Insulae Fortunatae, which in classical legend lay to the west of Africa, occurs in the Icelandic geography (in MSS. of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries) which may partly be the work of Abbot Nikulas of Thvera (ob. 1159) (although perhaps not the part here quoted), where we read: "South of Greenland is 'Helluland, ' next to it is 'Markland, ' and then it is not far to 'Vinland hit Gooa, ' which some think to be connected with Africa (and if this be so, then the outer ocean [i.e., the ocean surrounding the disc of the earth] must fall in between Vinland and Markland)." This idea of the connection with Africa seems to have been general in Iceland; it may appear surprising, but, as will be seen, it finds its natural explanation in the manner here stated. It also appears in Norway. Besides a reference in the "King's Mirror," the following passage in the "Historia Norwegiae" relating to Greenland is of particular importance: "This country was discovered and settled by the Telensians [i.e., the Icelanders] and strengthened with the Catholic faith; it forms the end of Europe towards the west, nearly touches the African Islands ('Africanas insulas'), where the returning ocean overflows" [i.e., falls in]. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book In Northern Mists Illustrated written by Fridtjof Nansen and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2014-03-22 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Nansen's Introduction This book owes its existence in the first instance to a rash promise made some years ago to my friend Dr. J. Scott Keltie, of London, that I would try, when time permitted, to contribute a volume on the history of arctic voyages to his series of books on geographical exploration. The subject was an attractive one; I thought I was fairly familiar with it, and did not expect the book to take a very long time when once I made a start with it. On account of other studies it was a long while before I could do this; but when at last I seriously took the work in hand, the subject in return monopolised my whole powers. It appeared to me that the natural foundation for a history of arctic voyages was in the first place to make clear the main features in the development of knowledge of the North in early times. By tracing how ideas of the Northern World, appearing first in a dim twilight, change from age to age, how the old myths and creations of the imagination are constantly recurring, sometimes in new shapes, and how new ones are added to them, we have a curious insight into the working of the human mind in its endeavour to subject to itself the world and the universe. A word from this editor: This book can hardly compare to getting the original hardback which by now is a rare book - the wealth of maps and illustrations Nansen placed in his 2 volume work covers a breath of history and makes for a wonderful printed work of timeless value - the poor substitutes we have placed here attempt to touch on this but if you can find the original you should get it.
Download or read book Northern Mists written by Carl Ortwin Sauer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.
Download or read book In Northern Mists written by Fridtjof Nansen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from Norwegian and published in 1911, this two-volume work traces Arctic exploration from antiquity to the sixteenth century.
Download or read book Legendary Islands of the Atlantic A Study of Medieval Geography written by William Henry Babcock and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a serious attempt in determining the location of Atlantis through cartography and historical analysis. Atlantis here refers to an island mentioned in an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias, wherein it represents the antagonist naval power that besieges "Ancient Athens", the pseudo-historic embodiment of Plato's ideal state in The Republic.
Download or read book Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America Vol 1 2 written by Alexander Mackenzie and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 is an account of explorations and expeditions taken by a famous Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie. In 1789 he took, what later became known, as Mackenzie River expedition to the Arctic Ocean. Thinking that it would lead to Cook Inlet in Alaska, Mackenzie set out by canoe on the river known to the local people as the Dehcho on 3 July 1789. On 14 July he reached the Arctic Ocean, rather than the Pacific. Ironically he called the waterway "the River Disappointment," since the river did not prove to be the Northwest Passage, as he had hoped. The river later came to be known as the Mackenzie River in his honor. Mackenzie returned to Canada in 1792, set out once again to find a route to the Pacific, what he managed in the summer of 1973. Having done this, he had completed the first recorded transcontinental crossing of North America north of Mexico, 12 years before Lewis and Clark.
Download or read book In Northern Mists Arctic Exploration in Early Times the Original Classic Edition written by Fridtjof Nansen and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of In Northern Mists (Volume 1 of 2) - Arctic Exploration in Early Times. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Fridtjof Nansen, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have In Northern Mists (Volume 1 of 2) - Arctic Exploration in Early Times in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside In Northern Mists (Volume 1 of 2) - Arctic Exploration in Early Times: Look inside the book: When our thoughts go back through the ages in a waking dream, an endless procession passes before us-like a singlePg 2 mighty epic of the human mind's power of devotion to an idea, right or wrong-a procession of struggling, frost-covered figures in heavy clothes, some erect and powerful, others weak and bent so that they can scarcely drag themselves along before the sledges, many of them emaciated and dying of hunger, cold and scurvy; but all looking out before them towards the unknown, beyond the sunset, where the goal of their struggle is to be found. ...A find in the passage-graves of Mycenae (fourteenth to twelfth century B.C.) of beads made of amber from the Baltic, besides many pieces of amber from the period of the Dorian migration (before the tenth century) found during the recent English excavations of the temple of Artemis at Sparta, furnish certain evidence that the Greek world had intercourse with the Baltic countries long before the Odyssey was put into writing in thePg 15 eighth century, even though the northern lands of this poem seem to have been limited by a communication by sea between the Black Sea and the Adriatic, running north of the Balkan peninsula. ...While some geographers, especiallyPg 16 the Ionians, placed them in the northern regions, beyond the Rhipaean Mountains, Hecataeus of Abdera (first half of the third century B.C.), who wrote a work about the Hyperboreans, collected from various sources, and more like a novel than anything else, declares that they dwelt far beyond the accessible regions, on the island of Elix a in the farthest northern Oceanus, where the tired stars sink to rest, and where the moon is so near that one can easily distinguish the inequalities of its surface. About Fridtjof Nansen, the Author: In November Nansen announced his plan: when the ship passed latitude 83 he and Hjalmar Johansen would leave the ship with the dogs and make for the pole while Fram, under Sverdrup, continued its drift until it emerged from the ice in the North Atlantic. ...75 Whether this still-distant land was Franz Josef Land or a new discovery they did not know-they had only a rough sketch map to guide them.n 3 On 6 August they reached the edge of the ice, where they shot the last of their dogs-they had been killing the weakest regularly since 24 April, to feed the othe
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