A rather less engaging book than his later Sledge, but informative on an expedition to scope out air-routes across Greenland by meteorological observations on the icecap. Several reading references:
Those Greenland Days: The British Arctic Air-Route Expedition, 1930-31.
Lindsay, Martin. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1939. [First published 1931.].
- 1930-31 British Greenland Air Route Expedition.
- Greenland.
- Arctic Reading: Canada
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Man the Ropes.
Courtauld, Augustine. (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1957).
- 1930-31 British Greenland Air Route Expedition.
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
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A short autobiography that covers his early Greenland trip with Gino Watkins, the British Arctic Air Route Expedition of 1930.
The Man on the Ice Cap. The Life of August Courtauld.
Woolaston, Nicholas. (London: Constable, 1980).
- 1930-31 British Greenland Air Route Expedition.
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
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Courtauld was a British yachtsman who notably spent a winter alone as meteorologist on the Greenland icecap in 1930-31, where he had considerable reading matter.