Into the great emptiness : peril and survival on the Greenland ice cap /

The riveting story of one of the greatest but least-known sagas in the history of exploration from David Roberts, the "dean of adventure writing." By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for ce...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Roberts, David, 1943-2021 (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022].
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Watkins, Henry George, > 1907-1932. Courtauld, Augustine, > 1904-1959. British Arctic Air Route Expedition > (1930-1931) Explorers > Great Britain > Biography. Greenland > Discovery and exploration > British.

Table of Contents:

Prologue: The man on the ice cap
One: "He never discussed anything seriously"
Two: Edgeøya
Three: The land that God gave Cain
Four: Gino at home
Five: Base camp
Six: "That cat's on the roof again"
Seven: Autumn with the Inuit
Interlude: The cosmos of the East Coast Inuit
Eight: "All, all alone": Courtauld on the ice cap
Nine: Winter with the Inuit
Ten: Courtauld in purgatory
Eleven: Asking for trouble: Gino's finale
Epilogue. To slip betimes away.