SVERDRUP, Otto; HEARN, Ethel Harriet (translator).

New Land.

Name: New Land.
Brand: SVERDRUP, Otto; HEARN, Ethel Harriet (translator).
SKU: 123815
Price: 800.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

Four Years in the Arctic Regions.

Stock Code 123815

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1904

£800

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A fine copy of this narrative of the second Fram Expedition, 1898-1902, under the Norwegian explorer Otto Sverdrup. Includes the mapping of southern & western Ellesmere Island, and the discovery of Axel Heiberg, Ellef Ringnes, Anud Ringnes, and Findlay Islands. The expedition filled in the last major unknown area on the map of the western Arctic. It includes good detailed descriptions of surviving in Arctic conditions.

First English edition; 2 vols, 8vo (25 x 16 cm); numerous illustrations from photographs, 3 folding maps including 2 in pocket at rear of vol. I; publisher's blue cloth with pictorial motif in silver on upper cover, spine lettered in silver, a fine copy; xvi, 496; xii, 504 pp.

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