{"product_id":"9781108049849","title":"The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe : With a Historical Review of Previous Journeys along the North Coast of the Old World (Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Finnish geologist and Arctic explorer A. E. Nordenskiöld (1832–1901) spent much of his life in exile in Sweden, where he was made a baron. He served as Superintendent of the Mineralogical Department of the Swedish Royal Museum, and later became a Member of the Swedish Academy. Following a number of expeditions during the 1860s, he concluded that the North Pole could not be reached by ship, and in 1872 he tried unsuccessfully to reach it overland. A great historian of cartography, he amassed a huge collection of maps, now included in UNESCO's 'Memory of the World' Register. This two-volume work, published in Swedish in 1881, describes his most famous voyage, the first crossing of the North-East Passage. Volume 2 follows the expedition from the Bering Strait to Yokohama in Japan, and the return journey to Sweden, through the India Ocean, the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean, in 1879.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45412602019919,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":2415.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/9174\/2287\/files\/9781108049849-1.jpg?v=1780448814","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9781108049849","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}