ENG The Finnish geologist and Arctic explorer A. E. Nordenskiöld (1832–1901) spent much of his life in exile in Sweden, where he was made a baron. He served as Superintendent of the Mineralogical Department of the Swedish Royal Museum, and later became a Member of the Swedish Academy. Following a number of expeditions during the 1860s, he concluded that the North Pole could not be reached by ship, and in 1872 he tried unsuccessfully to reach it overland. A great historian of cartography, he amassed a huge collection of maps, now included in UNESCO's 'Memory of the World' Register. 

This two-volume work, published in Swedish in 1880-81 (titled in English "The Voyage of the Vega Round Asia and Europe") describes his most famous voyage, the first crossing of the North-East Passage. Volume 1 includes details of the flora, fauna, people and geology encountered on the journey from Tromso to the Bering Strait, along with a review of previous exploration in the region. Volume 2 follows the expedition from the Bering Strait to Yokohama in Japan, and the return journey to Sweden, through the India Ocean, the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean, in 1879.

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SWE Vegaexpeditionen 1878–1880 under ledning av Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld var den första expeditionen som fann och genomseglade hela Nordostpassagen, en redan i mitten på 1700-talet förmodad sjöväg mellan Europa och Asien genom Norra ishavet. Kantad av strapatsrika äventyr och problem avslutades den dock lyckligt och expeditionen anses vara bland de främsta svenska vetenskapliga framgångarna.

1st edition (in Swedish).

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