Bøger om North-East Greenland

Den golde polarørken i det nordøstlige Grønland bærer på en hemmelighed fra fortiden. I 15 år forsøger Eske Willerslev og hans kolleger at få adgang til den, men den ene efter den anden må de give op – det er, som om der hviler en forbandelse over projektet. Men en dag bliver det umulige muligt: Han og hans kolleger ser forbløffet til, da det pludselig vælter ud med to millioner år gammelt liv. DNA-analysen fremkalder en mangfoldig skov med lærketræer, birketræer, cedertræer, lunde med blomster og forhistoriske mastodonter. For to millioner år siden levede Nordgrønland op til sit navn: Der var virkelig grønt – og meget varmere end i dag.JAGTEN PÅ VERDENS ÆLDSTE DNA er historien om Eske Willerslevs opdagelse af, at DNA findes i vores omgivelser og nedbrydes meget langsommere end hidtil antaget. Det betyder, at jord og is kan fortælle nye og overraskende historier om fortiden – om alt fra istidsdyrenes uddøen til hvilke planter og dyr, der kan leve i hvilket klima. Bogen handler om, hvordan Eske Willerslev og hans specialemakker fik idéen og grundlagde et helt nyt videnskabeligt felt. Den handler om tyve års opsigtsvækkende opdagelser og de mange udfordringer på vejen, og om samarbejde med et hav af kolleger fra nær og fjern, som tilsammen gjorde det muligt at finde verdens ældste DNA.I sidste ende handler bogen om, hvordan den dybe fortid bærer på et håb for fremtiden. For det ældgamle DNA fra Nordøstgrønland stammer fra en periode, der klimamæssigt minder om den, vi er på vej ind i – og det kan give os uvurderlig viden, når fødevareproduktionen en dag må flytte nordpå.

Here, for the first time, an English language account of life and work with the Sirius Sledge Patrol in North and Northeast Greenland; ane man's recol lections of his three years working for the Patrol, in 1977-80. Stories af humour, hardship, life and travel in a spectacular and harsh landscape -now the largest national park in the world. Peter Schmidt Mikkelsen is a former member of the renowned Danish military dogsledge patrol Sirius. He is a co-founder of the North-East GreenlandicCompany Nanok and its director since 1999.

This is an English edition of NORDØSTGRØNLAND 1908-60 - The Trapper Era. This updated and enlarged translation of the classic Danish edition from 1994 has been published in response to the request of the increasing number of English-speaking scientists, adventurers and tourists visiting North-East Greenland. But it's much more than a translation. The book is the overall account of places and people during the pioneer era in the largest national park on Earth: North-East Greenland. It also contains a large amount of new material, recorded by the NANOK-expeditions in 2003-2007 and published here for the first time. It includes an entirely revised catalogue over the more than 350 historical trappers’ huts and houses with GPS-positions as well as new and old photos. A number of newly discovered historical photos are also published here for the first time. In total the book has more than 1,000 photos of places and people, more than twice as many as in the Danish edition. The book is based on about 500 different sources: published books as well as private diaries and the author’s interviews and correspondence with hundreds of pioneers and key persons over more than thirty years. Publisher: Scott Polar Research Institute - University of Cambridge. Language: English. Peter Schmidt Mikkelsen is a former member of the renowned Danish military dogsledge patrol Sirius. He is a co-founder of the North-East Greenlandic Company Nanok and its director since 1999.

THE WAR IN NORTH-EAST GREENLAND is the incredible but truthful account of one of the most peculiar battlegrounds during World War II, when a handful of Danish and Norwegian fur hunters in the eastern North Greenland supported by local Greenlanders formed the world's smallest army and fought the German superior force. A battle that has so far been surrounded by mysticism and many myths. Exciting and intriguing as a crime novel, the story here also tells of how the German military leader, Hermann Ritter, tries to escape this meaningless war and therefore forms an almost unlikely alliance with one of his enemies. The author, Jens Erik Schultz, has uncovered novel documents from the German and American war archives, diaries, letters, etc., and for the first time now we get an insight into what really happened.The book contains maps and approx. 50 illustrations. The book is an English translation of the Danish original.