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    Reference 2145 (1516)
    Category Arctic;
    Author Greely, A.W
    Title THREE YEARS OF ARCTIC SERVICE: AN ACCOUNT OF THE LADY FRANKLIN BAY EXPEDITION OF 1881-84 AND THE ATTAINMENT OF THE FARTHEST NORTH.
    Publishing Information London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1886.
    Description 1st UK Edition, Vol I. xxv, 428 pages, illustrated, frontispiece, 16 full page engravings, 54 text illustrations, 5 maps, (1 folding) Vol II. frontispiece, 25 full page engravings, 28 text illustrations, maps (LARGE FOLDING MAP IS A COPY). Rebound with part of original cover pasted onto Volume 1, previous owners stamp on front end paper, Volume I - 2 of the plates are COPIES, All the maps are COPIES. Damp staining from page 280 onwards, worse from page 400 but text still readable. Volume 2 Frontispiece, plate at page 333 are COPIES, small folding map at page 36 is missing half but COPY is laid in. Classic harrowing account of survival in the Arctic. After Greely had waited for reinforcements in vain for 2 years, he marched southwards and was finally forced to set up camp on Pim Island. The weeks that followed saw one of the most terrible Polar tragedies of all times. Hunger and cold took their toll and when Captain Schley's rescue expedition arrived, only 7 men, among them Greely, had survived. One of the first U.S. Polar expeditions and one of the most tragic. sold as a READING COPY ONLY. NB: Original American edition published the same year as the English edition.(Arctic Bibliography, I, No 6118, p. 927)
    Price £60.00
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