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"The following story is based in part upon the experiences of that unfortunate expedition which, on board the steamer Miranda, came to grief off the coast of Greenland in the summer of 1894."--Pref.

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Books about Catalogue of Books, Maps, Plates on America, and of a Remarkable Collection of Early Voyages, Offered for Sale by Frederik Muller at Amsterdam ...

How could a community of 2000–3000 Viking peasants survive in Arctic Greenland for 430 years (ca. 985–1415), and why did they finally disappear? European agriculture in an Arctic environment encountered serious ecological challenges. The Norse peasants faced these challenges by adapting agricultural practices they had learned from the Atlantic and