Ejnar Mikkelsen - Lost in the Arctic. Being the Story of the 'Alabama' Expedition, 1909-1912. - 1913

"Mikkelesen's account of the expedition to recover
the lost 1906-8 Denmark Expedition surveying north-east
Greenland, where Mikkelsen and his engineer Iver Iversen
became stranded for two winters."

Publishers decorative cloth.
Silver titles and large vignette to cover.
Gilt title to spine.
xviii, 400 pages.
Frontispiece portrait plate.
69 half-tone plates.
Folding colour map of the expedition's route.

Ejnar Mikkelsen (1880 1971) had previously embarked
on three polar missions when he set out in 1909 to
recover the records and bodies of Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen
and Niels Peter Høeg Hagen. The men had succeeded in
their mission to chart previously unmapped portions of
Greenland but had faced harsh conditions on their return to
their ship and succumbed to the environment. In the autumn
of 1909, Mikkelsen took his first sledging excursion, penetrating
as far as Lamberts Land. On March 1910, with Iversen as his sole
companion, Mikkelsen set out towards the north in search of the
Mylius-Erichsen documents. Crossing the Greenland ice cap, the
two men eventually arrived at Danmark Fjord, where Mylius-Erichsen's
documents were discovered inside a cairn. After a harrowing journey
back, during which Mikkelsen and Iversen suffered every conceivable
hardship, the two explorers arrived at Dove Bay on 25th November.
There they discovered that not only had their ship been crushed by
ice but also that the remaining members of the expedition, who had
given up Mikkelsen and Iversen for dead, had gone home on a passing
sealing-vessel. Fortunately, before departing, they had erected a cabin
and left a stock of food. In the event, Mikkelsen and Iversen were forced
to endure another two winters on the Greenland coast, suffering great
hardships, until rescued by a Norwegian sealer. By then, nearly all hope
of seeing them again had been abandoned.

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