An Arctic passage to the Far East
Subtitle: the visit of the Swedish Vega expedition to Meiji Japan in 1879
By: editors, Urban Wråkberg and Gunilla Lindberg-Wada
Series: Bidrag till Kungl. Svenska vetenskapsakademiens historia -- 34; Bidrag till Kungl. Svenska vetenskapsakademiens historia -- 34.
Publisher: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Center for History of Science
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Stockholm
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9789171900395
Subjects: Relations; Description and travel; Japanese imprints; Exploratie; Vega-expedition (1878-1880)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why the Northeast Passage? : the background to A.E. Nordenskiöld's great expedition  -- Bertil Nordenstam; title: On the development of Nordenskiöld's system of polar exploration and its role as a model for scientific expeditions  -- Eiji Tokunaga; title: The Japanese view of Sweden from the middle of the Edo period to the time of Nordenskiöld's visit to Japan  -- Osamu Nishikawa; title: A.E. Nordenskiöld's impressions of Meiji Japan  -- Urban Wråkberg and Julia Lindkvist; title: Reflections on the Nordenskiöld collection of Japanese books in the Royal Library in Stockholm  -- Gunilla Lindberg-Wada; title: The Nordenskiöld book collection : an evaluation from a Japanese perspective -- Hiroshi Koyama.