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 2502 (1272) Category Arctic; Author Mirsky, Jeannette (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. Original covers, no dust jacket. Covers sunned, shelf wear, contents clean. 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is a revised and enlarged with some material on Russian achievements of the late 1930s of 'To The North' which was withdrawn shortly after publication because of a libel-action threat by Dr.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 £7.50 Keywords ISBN Add this to your basket