Greetings from Spitsbergen

Spitsbergen, the largest wilderness in Europe, is as close as you can get to the North Pole. Each year, tens of thousands of visitors experience the island's dramatic landscape with its fragile beauty -- fjords, glaciers, pack-ice, midnight sun, polar bears, reindeer and a fantastic wealth of bird life. But who were the first tourists and how did they reach this uninhabited 'no-man's land'? Greetings from Spitsbergen traces their untold story and, with the use of many unpublished photographs and postcards from the authors own collection, presents a unique insight into the 'golden era' of arctic tourism, which lasted until 1914.