Summary of Ejnar Mikkelsen's Against the Ice

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#1 The out-of-work explorer’s situation is not a happy one. He is broke, and often worse than that. He longs to be off again, away from the fretting ties of civilization.

#2 I knew two of the men who died in the expedition: Mylius-Erichsen, a dauntless idealist, dreamer and poet, and the faithful Greenlander Jørgen Brønlund. I thought about their expedition and how they had tried to find the land in the Beaufort Sea, but they never succeeded.

#3 I was able to obtain the money I needed to send an expedition to Greenland. I was promised by the Danish government that it would cover half the cost of mine, and the Committee of the Danmark Expedition, which had undertaken to act as my guarantor, agreed that more should be done.

#4 I found a suitable ship, Alabama, in Stavanger. She was a Nordland yacht and roomy for a ship of her size, for she was only forty-five tons. She was cheap too, costing only 6000 Crowns.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669387152

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The out-of-work explorer’s situation is not a happy one. He is broke, and often worse than that. He longs to be off again, away from the fretting ties of civilization.

#2

I knew two of the men who died in the expedition: Mylius-Erichsen, a dauntless idealist, dreamer and poet, and the faithful Greenlander Jørgen Brønlund. I thought about their expedition and how they had tried to find the land in the Beaufort Sea, but they never succeeded.

#3

I was able to obtain the money I needed to send an expedition to Greenland. I was promised by the Danish government that it would cover half the cost of mine, and the Committee of the Danmark Expedition, which had undertaken to act as my guarantor, agreed that more should be done.

#4

I found a suitable ship, Alabama, in Stavanger. She was a Nordland yacht and roomy for a ship of her size, for she was only forty-five tons. She was cheap too, costing only 6000 Crowns.

#5

The expedition was not able to obtain the dogs it needed, and the motor began to give trouble just when they needed it the most. They eventually realized that their mechanic was not up to par, and they had to replace him with a better one.

#6

Iver P. Iversen