ENG "Problems of Polar Research": Thirty-one authors, most with personal experience of the polar regions and each an expert in some branch of research, have contributed to this work. The result is a collection of papers of the highest value, which reflects great credit on the enterprise of the American Geographical Society. There must obviously be a certain overlap among several of the papers, just as certain topics are overlooked, but this does not detract from the value of the collection. 

Among authors are: Fridtjov Nansen, Knud Rasmussen, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, David Hunter Miller, Sir Douglas Mawson, Erich von Drygalski, Richard E. Byrd, Umberto Nobile, Robert A. Bartlett and others.

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"The Geography of the Polar Regions": "With mystic force the Polar regions, like other distant and little known parts of the globe, have long appealed to our imagination and interest. To be sure, man in general is primarily interested in studies that deal with man himself, and in this respect the Polar regions have little to offer, if we disregard the story of man's long struggle to conquer even these, the most inaccessible parts of the globe. But few subjects arouse greater general interest than the description of our natural environment, and this holds especially true of the parts of the globe where the natural forces seem to conspire to prevent and deter human presence and development - regions that man has not yet succeeded wholly in penetrating..." 

This book consists of a general characterisation of polar nature, by Otto Nordenskjöld, and a regional geography of the Arctic and the Antarctic, by Ludwig Mecking.

1st edition (in English).

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