Polar Books Catalogue
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Sections : Antarctic; Arctic; Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society; Maps; Miscellaneous; Mountaineering; General Polar; Scott; Other travel; Whaling;
Reference 3203 (1992) Category Arctic; Author Mirsky, Jeanette (With an Introduction by Vilhjalmur Stefansson) Title TO THE ARCTIC! The Story of Northern Exploration from Earliest Times to the Present. Publishing Information London: Allan Wingate,1949. Description 1st Edition: xxii, 334 pages, xviii index, illustrated, b/w illustrations, plates, maps including large folding map at end of book. Original covers in price clipped dust jacket. Covers sunned, shelf wear, some spotting to page edges and end papers, prelims. To the Arctic is a revised and enlarged with some material on Russian achievements of the late 1930s of 'To The North' which was withdrawn shortly after publication because of a libel-action threat by Dr. Frederick Cook." Price £12.50 Keywords ISBN Add this to your basket