1882 Nordenskiold's Voyage Round Asia and Europe, a Popular Account of the North-East Passage of the Vega 1878-80

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated

The first English language edition of Danish Navy Commander Andreas Hovgaard's account of Adolf Erik Nordenskiold's Vega Expedition, where Hovgaard was in charge of both meteorological and geomagnetic observations.

Translated from the original Danish by H. L. Braekstad.

Illustrated with three colour maps, two of which are folding, and a further forty seven plates and vignette illustrations consisting of both views of the expedition's surroundings, and portraits of those on board. Collated, complete.

The finest achievement amongst Nordenskiold's many Arctic explorations was the Vega expedition, where the SS Vega became the first vessel to circumnavigate the Eurasian continent, and the first ship to complete a voyage through the Northern Passage.

With the bookplate of the James Hadden Circulating Library to the front pastedown, and no further library markings within, and a thirty-two page publisher's catalogue to the rear.

In this richly illustrated work, Commander Hovgaard provides a thrilling first hand account of a pioneering voyage.