First Edition of the English Translation. An authoritative description and history of Greenland and chronicle of the establishment and progress of the Moravian missionary settlements at New Herrnhuth and Lichtenfels. Cranz's work contains extensive discussion of natural history, whaling, sealing and fishing, the manners and customs of the native Greenlanders, their moral character, diseases, health and medicine, language, &c., and an account of early Norse exploration. Dr. Johnson declared that very few books had ever affected him so deeply as Cranz's. The continuation, covering the period 1763 to 1768, includes the narrative of Matthaeus Stach's travels in the south of Greenland, and further observations on the country and its inhabitants.
The History Of Greenland: Containing a Description of The Country And Its Inhabitants: And Particularly a Relation of the Mission Carried on for above These Thirty Years by the Unitas Fratrum, at New Herrnhuth and Lichtenfels, in that Country.
- Greenland.
- Arctic Reading: Canada
The Snow People.
- Greenland.
- Arctic Reading: Canada
An account by the wife of Wally Herbert of a year living in northern Greenland and a year-old child and the Inuit.
On Greenland’s Closed Shore.
- Greenland.
- Arctic Reading: Canada
On this trip Hutchison took a fair number of books with her and she generously shared them with her hosts.
The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule.
- Greenland.
- Arctic Reading: Canada
Joanna Kavenna went north in search of the Atlantis of the Arctic, the mythical land of Thule. Seen once by an Ancient Greek explorer and never found again, mysterious Thule came to represent the vast and empty spaces of the north. Fascinated for many years by Arctic places, Kavenna decided to travel through the lands that have been called Thule, from Shetland to Iceland, Norway, Estonia, and Greenland. On her journey, she found traces of earlier writers and travellers, all compelled by the idea of a land called Thule: Richard Francis Burton, William Morris, Anthony Trollope, as well as the Norwegian Polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen . . . The Ice Museum is a mesmerising story of idealism and ambition, wars and destruction, survival and memories, set against the haunting backdrop of the northern landscape. Bookseller Inventory #0670913952
Those Greenland Days: The British Arctic Air-Route Expedition, 1930-31.
- 1930-31 British Greenland Air Route Expedition.
- Greenland.
- Arctic Reading: Canada
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:
Etah and Beyond: Or, Life Within Twelve Degrees of the Pole.
- 1926-27 US Northern Greenland Expedition (commanded by Donald MacMillan aboard Bowdoin).
- Greenland.
- Arctic Reading: Canada
A 1926-27 Greenland expedition aboard the Bowdoin, with the purpose of setting up new magnetic stations and resettling old ones.
Greenland by the Polar Sea. The Story of the Thule Expedition from Melville Bay to Cape Morris Jesup.
- Greenland.
- Arctic Reading: Canada
First chapter is a history of Eskimos starting with Ross’s first communication.
The People of the Polar North: A Record.
- Greenland.
- Arctic Reading: Canada
But, as its title implies, it is first and foremost an account of the most northerly dwelling people in the world, that is to say, of the little Eskimo group of nomads who wander from settlement to settlement between Cape York, North of Melville Bay, and Cape Alexander (approximately therefore between 76˚ and 78˚ N. latitude), and who are called in this book the Polar Eskimos [Editor’s Preface].
The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America ca A.D. 1000-1500.
- Greenland.
- Arctic Reading: Canada
Interesting study of the Norse settlement in Greenland during its chief period, and its demise.
Camp Century: City under the Ice.
- Greenland.
- Arctic Reading: Canada
An enjoyable read about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s nuclear-powered city tunneled into the Greenland ice cap. The base was 130 mi. from Thule, 100 from a slightly nearer base (Tuto), and thus Camp Century. It operated for about six years and was intended as a model for future bases. I don’t know if there is any summary study of its accomplishments. This is the human interest part of it, not long after it opened up, a rather saccharine account. There are some casual mentions of the library and plate 1 has a picture of the library at Camp Century. Plus these citations: