1939 Greenland Journey

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First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First UK edition, translated from the seventh German edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, sixty-six images across forty-six plates, and six maps. Collated complete. The story of the German Expedition to Greenland in 1930-1931 as told by members of the expedition alongside the diary of the expedition leader Alfred Lothar Wegener, a German climatologist, geologist, geophysicist, meteorologist, and polar researcher. The journey which was to be Wegener's last Greenland expedition began in 1930 with fourteen participants intending to establish three permanent stations from which the thickness of the Greenland ice sheet could be measured and year-round Arctic weather observations made. Edited by his wife, Else Wegener, the daughter of his former teacher and mentor, the meteorologist Wladimir Koppen. With assistance from Fritz Loewe, a German polar explorer, glaciologist, geophysicist and meteorologist who, after emigrating from Nazi Germany, founded the first Meteorological Institute in Australia at the University of Melbourne.