MIKKELSEN, Ejnar.

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Complete set of his memoirs, uniformly bound, each inscribed. First editions, first impressions, of Danish explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen's autobiographical travel narratives, each volume warmly inscribed by the author to the Danish book dealer Johannes Schou; signed copies are notably scarce in commerce.Mikkelsen (1880-1971) "was largely responsible for exploring the east coast of Greenland. [He] also founded the Inuit colony of Scoresby Sound and led an expedition to search for land reported north of Alaska" (Mills, p. 426). Additionally, Mikkelsen is famed for his enforced wintering for two years in north-east Greenland. Farlig Tomandsfœrd is the account of the Alabama expedition, which was Mikkelsen's journey to recover the lost journals and maps of the Denmark Expedition (1906-8), led by Ludwig Mylius-Erichsen, which surveyed north-east Greenland. It had originally set out to disprove the claims of Robert E. Peary, who in 1891 outlined the eastern coast of Greenland and mapped a channel separating what he believed to be an island from the mainland, something that would have allowed America to make a land claim. Mikkelsen's party of six men made winter quarters at Dove Bay, Shannon Island. In the autumn of 1909, Mikkelsen and the mechanic Iver P. Iversen took their first sledging excursion, penetrating as far as Lamberts Land in search of the Mylius-Erichsen documents. "Crossing the Greenland ice cap, the two men eventually arrived at Danmark Fjord, where Mylius-Erichsen's docu

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