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    Category Arctic;
    Author Sir William Martin Conway
    Title The First Crossing of Spitsbergen: Being an Account of an Inland Journey of Exploration and Survey.......
    Publishing Information London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1897
    Description 1st Edition: 371 pages. Illustrated colour plate frontispiece and other colour and b/w plates, illustrations in text, 2 colour folding maps. Original publisher's quarter beige cloth and brown cloth with Blindstamped Gilt "Dent" Floral Design in front cover, gilt titling to spine,top edge gilt. Some minor age tanning to pages and prelims, Ex Private Dent Library bookplate to verso front cover. Minor stain to spine. Protection dust jacket. Full Title: The First Crossing of Spitsbergen: Being an Account of an Inland Journey of Exploration and Survey, with Descriptions of several Mountain Ascents, of Boat Expeditions in Ice Fjord, of a Voyage to North-East-Land, the Seven Islands, down Hinloopen Strait, nearly to Wiches Land, and into most of the Fjords of Spitsbergen, and of an almost complete circumnavigation of the main Island. The author spent the summers of 1896 and 1897 exploring the interior of West Spitsbergen. This volume is an account of the first season's voyage to the island and the trips there during which Conway, Gregory, Trevor-Battye, Garwood and H. E. Conway crossed overland from Advent Bay to Bell Sound, northward to Sassen Bay, and from there to Agardh Bay on the east coast and returned to Advent Bay. They made in all 13 mountain ascents, produced a survey sketch of about 600 square miles of central West Spitsbergen, almost completed a circumnavigation of the main island, and made valuable geologic natural history collections.
    Price £150.00
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