Stranded at the Top of the World A Story of Exploration and Heroic Rescue in the Arctic /

This book provides a well-researched, well-structured, interesting, and informative narrative depicting the little-known yet successful efforts of the Captain Arve Staxrud Norwegian Arctic Rescue Expedition of 1913 that searched for and saved members of the Lieutenant Herbert Schröder-Stranz German...

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Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Tahan, Mary R. (Συγγραφέας), Lüdecke, Cornelia (Συγγραφέας)
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Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:Αγγλικά
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2024.
Έκδοση:1st ed. 2024.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56288-4
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: Norwegians and Germans in Spitsbergen (Svalbard)
  • Part I: Visions of Northeast Land: The Failed Herbert Schröder-Stranz Expedition
  • Chapter 2: German Interest in Spitsbergen
  • Chapter 3: Herbert Schröder-Stranz’s Training Expedition for His Planned Northeast Passage (1912)
  • Chapter 4: Three Long Christmas Treks, Wilhelm Eberhard’s Disappearance, and Captain Alfred Ritscher’s Lonely Journey Across the Ice
  • Part II: The Stranded: Seven Men Marooned on an Iced-In Ship and in Hunter’s Huts
  • Chapter 5: The Remaining Expeditioners: Hermann Rüdiger, Christopher Rave, Einar Rotvold, Knut Stave, August Stenersen, and Julius and Jørgen Jensen
  • Chapter 6: The Scramble to Form Rescue Expeditions, and the Plight of the Stranded Expeditioners (February 1913)
  • Chapter 7: The Arve Staxrud Expedition Coalesces: Local Norwegian Experts, Sámi Guides, Experienced Sled Dogs, Reliable Reindeer, and an Ice-Worthy Vessel
  • Chapter 8: The Stranded Expeditioners’ Efforts to Save Themselves, and the Detrimental Rescue Activities of the Kurt Wegener Expedition
  • Chapter 9: The Arrival of the Schröder-Stranz Expedition’s Four Norwegians in Advent Bay, and the Welcoming of Staxrud’s Hertha at Green Harbour
  • Part III: Interspecies Cooperation and Perseverance: The Arve Staxrud Rescue Expedition
  • Chapter 10: Staxrud’s Rescue Expedition: Embarking on the Northward Journey to Treurenberg Bay – with Daniel Nøis, Per Hansen, Klemet Samuelsen, Lussi, and Storm.