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03303aam a2200517 i 4500 001 BDBC78163E2911ED85B95C534CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220927010045 008 220424s2022 nyu b 001 0deng 010 $a 2022008994 020 $a 0393868117 020 $a 9780393868111 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-gl--- $a n-gl--- 050 00 $a G760 $b .R57 2022 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23/eng20220528 100 1 $a Roberts, David, $d 1943-2021, $e author. 245 10 $a Into the Great Emptiness : $b Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap / $c David Roberts. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, N.Y. : $b W.W. Norton & Company, $c 2022. 300 $a pages cm $b Hardcover ; 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Prologue: The man on the ice cap -- "He never discussed anything seriously" -- Edgeøya -- The land that God gave Cain -- Gino at home -- Base camp -- "That cat's on the roof again" -- Autumn with the Inuit -- Interlude. The cosmos of the East Coast Inuit -- "All, all alone" : Courtauld on the ice cap -- Winter with the Inuit -- Courtauld in purgatory -- Asking for trouble : Gino's finale -- Epilogue. To slip betimes away. 520 $a "The riveting story of one of the greatest but least-known sagas in the history of exploration from David Roberts, the "dean of adventure writing." 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 23-year-old explorer, led thirteen scientists and explorers on an ambitious journey to the east coast of Greenland and its vast and forbidding interior. Their mission: chart and survey the region and establish a permanent meteorological base 8,000 feet high on the ice cap. That plan turned into an epic survival ordeal when August Courtauld, manning the station solo through the winter, became entombed by drifting snow. David Roberts, "veteran mountain climber and chronicler of adventures" (Washington Post), draws on firsthand accounts and rich archival materials to tell the story of this daring expedition and of the ingenious young explorer at its helm"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Watkins, Henry George, $d 1907-1932. 600 10 $a Courtauld, Augustine, $d 1904-1959. 611 20 $a British Arctic Air Route Expedition $d (1930-1931) 650 0 $a Explorers $z Great Britain $v Biography. 651 0 $a Greenland $x British. $x British. 941 $a 14 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240524010452.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314024528.0 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214014755.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117022200.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010031920.0 952 $l WHPE115 $d 20230823010927.0 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230629015237.0 952 $l SEPC074 $d 20230427010528.0 952 $l AQPC277 $d 20230308010419.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20230302010648.0 952 $l SIPD314 $d 20230201023436.0 952 $l KJPF566 $d 20230119011704.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230104013427.0 952 $l TNPD062 $d 20221221010339.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BDBC78163E2911ED85B95C534CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search