- Fiction, Air pilots, Aerial photography in archaeology, Discoveries in geography
Aviator contracts to take an Oxford Don to Greenland, and there to discover the truth of whether the Norwegians were the first settlers in Greenland.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Nevil Shute, Rob Spence
- First published
- 1940
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Heinemann Educational Publishers, Lancer
- Editions
- 47
- Language
- Dutch, English
- ISBN
- 9798848355307
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