Escape From An Icy Grave.(Features) From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: December 29, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2001 MGN Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: William Leece

THE summer of 1913 saw a world in transition. The date may have been in the twentieth century, but seen from nearly 90 years later the era has more in common with the century before.

Cars, aeroplanes and radios were in their infancy, and there were huge, almost unbelievable gaps in scientific and geographical knowledge.

The anthropologist and explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, for example, was convinced that there was a lost conti...

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