Desert 79: 3 Journeys Beyond The Know World

Anna Abrahams

Netherlands / 2010 / Documentary, Experimental / 19’0”I1104453

Desert 79: 3 Journeys Beyond The Know World
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SYNOPSIS

Three reports by polar travellers, filmed in various tints of white. The Greek Pytheas was the first to describe the Arctic Ocean (330 BC). The second Admiral John Ross met the only inhabitants on an unknown Arctic coast (1819). Swedish inventor Andree's hot air balloon crashed on its way to the North Pole (1897).

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