The author of the standard early twentieth-century textbook on fossil plants, A. C. Seward (1863 1941) was Professor of Botany at Cambridge, Master of Downing College and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. This account of his first research trip to Greenland is an evocative portrait of the country, its immense and sublime landscape, its people, and life on the Danish scientific station. This little book, written in an engaging conversational tone, conveys Seward's enthusiasm for Greenland. It includes an explanation for non-specialists of some of Seward's findings relating to fossil...
The author of the standard early twentieth-century textbook on fossil plants, A. C. Seward (1863 1941) was Professor of Botany at Cambridge, Master of...
