A Summer in Greenland

Theauthorofthestandardearlytwentieth-centurytextbookonfossilplants,A.C.Seward(1863–1941)wasProfessorofBotanyatCambridge,MasterofDowningCollegeandVice-ChancellorofCambridgeUniversity.ThisaccountofhisfirstresearchtriptoGreenlandisanevocativeportraitofthecountry,itsimmenseandsublimelandscape,itspeople,andlifeontheDanishscientificstation.Thislittlebook,writteninanengagingconversationaltone,conveysSeward'senthusiasmforGreenland.Itincludesanexplanationfornon-specialistsofsomeofSeward'sfindingsrelatingtofossilplantsfoundthere,whichprovideevidencethatthecountryhadamuchmilderclimateinpreviousgeologicalperiods.Seward'sownphotographsareafascinatingrecordofthetraditionallifeoftheInuitpopulationasitthensurvived,aswellastheruggedsceneryoficebergsandglaciers.