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Author : Hans Egede
Publisher : London : Printed for T. and J. Allman, ..., W.H. Reid, ... , and Baldwin, Craddock, and Joy
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Greenland
ISBN : HARVARD:HWGBWW
Author : Hans Egede
Publisher : Nova Snova
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Science
ISBN : 1536150789
Hans Egede was a Lutheran missionary who launched mission efforts to Greenland. He embarked for Greenland, with his wife and four small children, the 12th of May, 1721; and he landed in Ball's River, the 3d of July. He established a successful mission among the Inuit and is credited with revitalizing the island.
Author : Hans Egede
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230416641
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 edition. Excerpt: ... the regions in the neighbourhood of the North Pole have lately become the objects of increased curiosity; and among these regions Greenland has attracted a more than usual interest. This country was first peopled by a colony from Iceland, which occupied both the Western and Eastern parts of the Island. The first h settlers in the West appear to have been destroyed by the natives, who are denominated Skrellings; and though a communication was preserved for several centuries between the Eastern coast of Greenland and some parts of the Danish territory, yet it was interrupted about the close of the fourteenth century by accumulated masses of ice, which formed an impenetrable barrier of considerable extent around the shore; and though various attempts have been made, at different times, to explore a passage throiigh this frozen rampart, yet there is no definite account of any attempt of this kind which has hitherto been successful. May we hope that the execution of this project, which is prompted, not only by curiosity but by philanthropy, is reserved for the present era, and that it will be finally accomplished by the nautical skill and enterprise of this cdtntry! As we possess indubitable evidence that a considerable extent of this coast was formerly occupied by a flourishing colony, and that it contained numerous villages, with a bishop's see, we cannot but be anxious to know what has been the fate of so many human beings, so long cut off from all intercourse with the more civilized world. Were they destroyed by an invasion of the natives, like their countrymen on the Western coast? or have they perished by the inclemency of the climate, and the sterility of the soil? or do they still subsist? If they subsist, it must greatly interest our...
Author : Hans Povelson EGEDE (Bishop of Greenland.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026709735
Author : Hans Egede
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1745
Category : Greenland
ISBN : OCLC:221052676
Author : Hans Egede
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0282577424
Excerpt from A Description of Greenland Chap. X. Of the Customs, Virtues, and vzccs, and the Hfanncrs or Way of Life of the Greenlanders chap. XI. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : David Cranz,John Gambold
Publisher : London : Printed for the Brethren's Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel Among the Heathen and sold by J. Dodsley [and 5 others], and at all the Brethren's chapels
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1767
Category : Eskimos
ISBN : HARVARD:HWK1JM
Author : James Nicol
Publisher : Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd ; London : Simpkin, Marshall & Company
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Faroe Islands
ISBN : HARVARD:32044084726777
Author : HANS. EGEDE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033845736
Author : Egede
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1745
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00123473
Author : Tom Schiøtte
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Mollusks
ISBN : 8763511959
Author : Philip W. Conkling,Richard B. Alley,Wallace S. Broecker,George H. Denton
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 0262015641
Viewed from above, Greenland offers an endless vista of whiteness interrupted only by scattered ponds of azure-colored melt water. Ninety percent of Greenland is covered by ice; its ice sheet, the largest outside Antarctica, stretches almost 1,000 miles from north to south and 600 miles from east to west. But this stark view of ice and snow is changing--and changing rapidly. Greenland's ice sheet is melting; the dazzling, photogenic display of icebergs breaking off Greenland's rapidly melting glaciers has become a tourist attraction. The Fate of Greenland documents Greenland's warming with dramatic color photographs and investigates Greenland's climate history for clues about what happens when climate change is abrupt rather than gradual. Geological evidence suggests that Greenland has already been affected by two dramatic changes in climate: the Medieval Warm Period, when warm temperatures in Northern Europe enabled Norse exploration and settlements in Greenland; and the Little Ice Age that followed and apparently wiped out the settlements. Greenland's climate past and present could presage our climate future. Abrupt climate change would be cataclysmic: the melting of Greenland's ice shelf would cause sea levels to rise twenty-four feet worldwide; lower Manhattan would be underwater and Florida's coastline would recede to Orlando. The planet appears to be in a period of acute climate instability, exacerbated by carbon dioxide we pour into the atmosphere. As this book makes clear, it is in all of our interests to pay attention to Greenland.--Publisher description.
Author : Jon Gertner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812996623
An urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change. As Greenland's ice melts and runs off into the sea, it not only threatens to affect hundreds of millions of people who live in coastal areas. It will also have drastic effects on ocean currents, weather systems, economies, and migration patterns
Author : Niels Elers Koch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538181256
Greenland is a comprehensive full color book with a myriad of information about the country; it contains maps, and hundreds of photos. Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark is the patron of Greenland., and Greenlandic and Danish experts across the Unity of the Realm have helped to create a contemporary and detailed picture of Greenland.
Author : Robert Rix
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009359474
A gripping account of one of the most contested questions in colonial history: what became of Greenland's vanished Viking settlers?