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Author : Hans Egede
Release : 1818
Genre : Greenland
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Download or read book A Description of Greenland written by Hans Egede. This book was released on 1818. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hans Egede
Release : 2019
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis A Description of Greenland by : Hans Egede
Download or read book A Description of Greenland written by Hans Egede. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Release : 1818
Genre : Greenland
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Download or read book A Description of Greenland written by Hans Egede. This book was released on 1818. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hans Egede
Release : 2019-12-09
Genre : Travel
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Download or read book A Description of Greenland written by Hans Egede. This book was released on 2019-12-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Danish author and Christian minister, Hans Egede, pens the geographical novel, "A Description of Greenland". Following a request he made to be allowed permission to go to Greenland as a Christian missionary, Frederick IV, King of Denmark, issued an order to the magistrates at Bergen to make inquiries of all the masters of vessels and traders, who had been in Davis's Straits, concerning the state of the traffic with Greenland; and, at the same time, to learn their opinion about forming a new settlement upon that coast. Egede embarked for Greenland, with his wife and four small children, upon the 12th of May, 1721; and he landed in Ball's River, in the 64th degree of North latitude, upon the 3d of July, in the same year. The company on board the ship consisted of forty persons. They lost no time in building a house of stone and earth, upon an island near Kangek, which they called Haabets Oe, or Hope Island, after the name of the ship in which they had made the voyage. He published the Description of Greenland at Copenhagen, in the Danish language, the year preceding his death, which took place in 1758.
Author : Hans Egede
Release : 2013-09
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Download or read book A Description of Greenland written by Hans Egede. This book was released on 2013-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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...
