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MARC recordThe terrors of ice and darkness / Christopher Ransmayr.
| Title: | The terrors of ice and darkness / Christopher Ransmayr. |
| Author(s): | Ransmayr, Christopher. |
| Date: | 1991. |
| Publisher: | London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson |
| Abstract: | Recounts fictitious journey of Joseph Mazzini to Arctic regions and Austro-Hungarian expedition of 1873 led by Julius Payer, whose route Mazzini follows, reconstructed from notes in logbooks, private diaries and letters. Story of Mazzini's disasters mirrors those of 1873 expedition to Franz-Joseph Land (Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa) and other polar disasters. Translated from German. |
| Keywords: | 82-3 -- Prose. Fiction. 91(08) -- Expeditions: 1872-74 Weyprecht and Payer. 91(091) -- Exploration, history. 93"187" -- 1870-1879. S -- Literature and Language. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*32) -- Svalbard. (*38) -- Greenland. (*526) -- Novaya Zemlya. (*527) -- Frantsa-Iosifa, Zemlya. (*60) -- Arctic Ocean and adjacent waters. |
| Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: 82-3 : (*3)[Ransmayr] |
| SPRI record no.: | 110972 |
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