Svalbard: Spitsbergen, Jan Mayen, Franz Josef Land

by Andreas Umbreit, James Proctor, Roger Norum

Book Overview

The Bradt guide to Svalbard, including Spitsbergen, Franz Josef Land and Jan Mayen, is a unique, standalone guidebook to this evocative Arctic archipelago, a place that is plunged into darkness for four months each year and where there are 4,000 snow scooters for a population of just 2,500, and where the main city, Longyearbyen, was founded by an American (John Longyear, a Bostonian, started the Arctic Coal Company and set up a mining operation for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784770477
• ISBN13: 9781784770471
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.4"