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 2506 (755) Category Arctic; Author Mirsky, Jeannette (With an Introduction by Vilhjalmur Stefansson) Title NORTHERN CONQUEST: The Story of Northern Exploration from Earliest Times to the Present. Publishing Information London: Hamish Hamilton,1934. Description 1st UK Edition: [2], ix-xx, 386pp, illustrated, b/w illustrations, plates, 13 maps plus large folding coloured map at end of book. Green cloth covers with white titling, no dustjacket. AB11526 - Northern Conquest...English issue with new title and without half title, of the author's "To the North!" (AB 11527 - Second edition of To the North!, revised and enlarged with some material on Russian achievements of the late 1030s. AB11528 'To The North', was withdrawn shortly after publication because of a libel-action threat by Dr. Frederick Cook." - Publishers statement issued with the Author's "To the Arctic! Also issued in London, 1934, with the title Northern Conquest, q.v.) Covers sunned with some staining, shelfware, contents clean. Good. Price £25.00 Keywords qpolarq S1-Arc ISBN Add this to your basket