Northward Over The "Great Ice". A Narrative of Life and Work along the Shores and upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891-1897.

Name: Northward Over The "Great Ice". A Narrative of Life and Work along the Shores and upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891-1897.
Author: Peary, Robert E.

Book Description

First UK edition. 8vo. 2 vols. pp. [viii], xv-lxxx, 520 & xiv, 624; port. frontis. to each vol., numerous photo. illusts. throughout, folding panorama, large folding map to vol. II; previous owner’s inscriptions to flyleaf of each, minor spotting, else very good copy in original cloth with vignette to upper boards, gilt, t. e.g., a few minor marks but a handsome set.

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Peary's reconnaissance of Greenland and the ice-cap station determined the insularity of Greenland and mapped the previously uncharted northern coastlines.

Author Peary, Robert E.

Date 1898

Binding Original cloth, gilt

Publisher London: Methuen & Co.

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Pages pp. [viii], xv-lxxx, 520 & xiv, 624

Price: £325.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

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