Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879–1962)
Auteur de My Life with the Eskimo
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Crédit image: Photo by Louis Fabian Bachrach: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-116932)
Œuvres de Vilhjalmur Stefansson
The Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum: Preliminary Ethnological Report 3 exemplaires
The Fat of the Land 1 exemplaire
Ferda Baekur III 1 exemplaire
Friendly Arctic 1 exemplaire
Ultima Thulr 1 exemplaire
Ferda Baekur II 1 exemplaire
Ferda Baekur I 1 exemplaire
The problem of Meighen Island: Intended as the third chapter but suppressed in the publication of Unsolved mysteries of… (1939) 1 exemplaire
Northward Ho! 1 exemplaire
Hunters of the Great North 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Abandoned: The Story of the Greely Arctic Expedition 1881-1884 (1961) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 23 exemplaires
Best-in-books: the Land Beyond the Mountains / Miss Plum and Miss Penny / Northwest to Fortune / The Professor and I /… (1959) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
- Nom légal
- Stephenson, William
- Autres noms
- Stephenson, Villi
Stephenson, William - Date de naissance
- 1879-11-03
- Date de décès
- 1962-08-26
- Lieu de sépulture
- Pine Knoll Cemetery, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Canada
- Lieu de naissance
- Gimli, Manitoba, Canada
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Gimli, Manitoba, Canada
North Dakota, USA - Études
- University of North Dakota
University of Iowa
Harvard University - Professions
- explorer
ethnologist
anthropologist
book collector
writer - Organisations
- 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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Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 31
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 360
- Popularité
- #66,630
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 37