Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund is a postdoctoral research associate in the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, working as part of the Arctic Cultures project. Her research centers on the intersection of Arctic exploration, print culture, science, religion, and medicine in the modern period with a focus on the British and Danish imperial worlds. Kaalund is also a postdoctoral associate at Darwin College.

Perhaps the most valuable aspect of Kaalund’s book for English speakers is her comparison of Danish and Greenlandic writing with the better-known British sources. The Kongelige Grønlandske Handel (Royal Greenland Trading Department) ruled Greenland as all-pervasively as the Hudson’s Bay Company did Canada, but its accommodation of missionaries created a quite different cultural background from the HBC’s hard-nosed focus on trade.

Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund is a postdoctoral research associate in the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, working as part of the Arctic Cultures project. Her research centers on the intersection of Arctic exploration, print culture, science, religion, and medicine in the modern period with a focus on the British and Danish imperial worlds. Kaalund is also a postdoctoral associate at Darwin College.

Perhaps the most valuable aspect of Kaalund’s book for English speakers is her comparison of Danish and Greenlandic writing with the better-known British sources. The Kongelige Grønlandske Handel (Royal Greenland Trading Department) ruled Greenland as all-pervasively as the Hudson’s Bay Company did Canada, but its accommodation of missionaries created a quite different cultural background from the HBC’s hard-nosed focus on trade.

Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund is a postdoctoral research associate in the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, working as part of the Arctic Cultures project. Her research centers on the intersection of Arctic exploration, print culture, science, religion, and medicine in the modern period with a focus on the British and Danish imperial worlds. Kaalund is also a postdoctoral associate at Darwin College.

Perhaps the most valuable aspect of Kaalund’s book for English speakers is her comparison of Danish and Greenlandic writing with the better-known British sources. The Kongelige Grønlandske Handel (Royal Greenland Trading Department) ruled Greenland as all-pervasively as the Hudson’s Bay Company did Canada, but its accommodation of missionaries created a quite different cultural background from the HBC’s hard-nosed focus on trade.