description: How and why did 9,000 Norse settlers in Greenland in the Middle Ages dissapear? How was Sir John Franklin's expedition lost? What lay behind the strange death from gunshot wounds of Thomas Simpson, the Canadian explorer, in 1840? What really hapenned to Andrée and his companions, who disappeared on a balloon voyage in 1897 and whose bodies were found on one of the Spitsbergen islands in 1930? And how did Levanevsky and his crew of five come to grief on their aeroplane flight from Moscow to America via the North Pole in 1937?These are the problems that Stefansson, the greatest living authority on the Arctic (author of The Friendly Arctic, The Northward Course of Empire, etc.) discusses here. He has always maintained that life in the Arctic is easy enough, if explorers will only learn the rules and abide by them.
language: English
title: Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic
titlecomplete: Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic
genres: History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 21
publisher: Ayer Co Pub