Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap

by David Roberts and David Roberts

Book Overview

By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed "Gino"), a twenty-three-year-old British explorer, led thirteen scientists and explorers on an ambitious expedition to the east coast of Greenland and into its vast and forbidding interior to set up a permanent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393868117
• ISBN13: 9780393868111
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"