Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879–1962)
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Stefansson, Canadian-born of Icelandic parentage and the last of the dog-sled explorers, spent many years in the Arctic. His books aim to combat popular misconceptions about the Far North. They show that it is a good place for colonization, that human life can be supported there on a diet of seal visa mer alone, and that it has possibilities for commercial usefulness. Stefansson's "findings changed man's prevailing concepts. By "humanizing' the icy north, he became known as the man who robbed the Arctic Circle of all its terrors and most of its discomforts" (Boston Globe). As far back as 1915, he suggested the feat that the atom-powered Nautilus finally accomplished---submerging under the Arctic ice on the Pacific side and emerging, after two months, on the Atlantic side. The whole fascinating search for a northwest passage is told with scholarly authority in his Northwest to Fortune (1958). "Clearly and lovingly written, the book brings color and even warmth to regions which for so many of us have seemed wrapped in cold, fog, and ice" (Christian Science Monitor). (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Foto taget av: Photo by Louis Fabian Bachrach: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division
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Verk av Vilhjalmur Stefansson
The Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum: Preliminary Ethnological Report 3 exemplar
The Fat of the Land 1 exemplar
Ferda Baekur III 1 exemplar
Friendly Arctic 1 exemplar
Ultima Thulr 1 exemplar
Ferda Baekur II 1 exemplar
Ferda Baekur I 1 exemplar
The problem of Meighen Island: Intended as the third chapter but suppressed in the publication of Unsolved mysteries of… (1939) 1 exemplar
Northward Ho! 1 exemplar
Hunters of the Great North 1 exemplar
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Abandoned: The Story of the Greely Arctic Expedition 1881-1884 (1961) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor — 23 exemplar
Best-in-books: the Land Beyond the Mountains / Miss Plum and Miss Penny / Northwest to Fortune / The Professor and I /… (1959) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Stephenson, William
- Andra namn
- Stephenson, Villi
Stephenson, William - Födelsedag
- 1879-11-03
- Avled
- 1962-08-26
- Begravningsplats
- Pine Knoll Cemetery, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Canada
- Födelseort
- Gimli, Manitoba, Canada
- Dödsort
- New York, New York, USA
- Bostadsorter
- New York, New York, USA
Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Gimli, Manitoba, Canada
North Dakota, USA - Utbildning
- University of North Dakota
University of Iowa
Harvard University - Yrken
- explorer
ethnologist
anthropologist
book collector
writer - Organisationer
- Dartmouth College
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
Explorers Club
American Polar Society
History of Science Society
American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Birobidjan
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- 31
- Även av
- 2
- Medlemmar
- 360
- Popularitet
- #66,630
- Betyg
- 4.1
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- ISBN
- 37