Date 21 August 2019
Pages 313
Format cm 12 x 22
Price € 21.00
EAN 9782330124946
Publisher Website www.actes-sud.fr

A World Without Shores

Publisher Actes Sud
Keywords Exploration
Kvitøya, summer 1930: the melting ice caps reveal the remains of a polar expedition.

Summer, 1930: a boat of seal-hunters sets out from Svalbard for Kvitøya, some of the last solid ground before the North Pole. The melting ice caps have opened up usually inaccessible areas. Nearing the island, they find bodies and a makeshift campsite, solving a disappearance that has remained a mystery for thirty-three years: the fates of Salomon August Andrée, Knut Frænkel, and Nils Strindberg when they disappeared trying to reach the North Pole by hot-air balloon in July, 1897. Among their belongings is a roll of negatives, of which a hundred-some images will be recovered...

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  • As of: June 2021