A Description of Greenland

Name: A Description of Greenland
Author: Hans Egede

by Hans Egede

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive)

Release date

2018-11-18

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Greenland -- Description and travel

About the author

Hans Egede

1686–1758

A Norwegian missionary and writer, he is best known for reopening sustained European contact with Greenland in the 18th century. His years there shaped books that introduced many readers in Europe to Greenland’s land, people, and daily life.

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