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    Reference 3238 (2002)
    Category Arctic;
    Author Peary, R. E
    Title NORTHWARD OVER THE GREAT ICE: A Narrative of Life and Work along the Shores and upon the Interior Ice Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891 1897 - Two Volumes
    Publishing Information London: Methuen & Co., 1898.
    Description 1st Edition; Vol I - lxxx, 520 pages Vol II - xiv, 624pages. Illustrated, portrait frontispieces, plates, about 800 illustrations, folding panorama, maps, (1 folding). Original covers. A very good set, shelf wear, age toning to end papers as expected. Volume 1, some very minor wrinkling to early page edges and page xxv of the preface splitting on edges due to fragility of paper. Charing X Road 4.5.73 on front end paper both volumes otherwise contents clean, some pages still uncut. Folding map and pnorama in excellent condition.With a description of the little tribe of Smith-Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the 'Saviksue' or Great Cape-York meteorites. With details of his summer voyage and reconnaissance of the Greenland Inland Ice in 1886. A thirteen months sojourn in Northern Greenland, including a twelve hundred mile sledge journey across the ice-cap and the determination of the insularity of Greenland, 1891-2. A twenty-five months stay in North Greenland, including a second twelve hundred mile sledge journey across the ice-cap, the completion of the study of the Whale-Sound natives, a detail survey of that region, and the discovery of the great Cape-York meteorites, 1893-5. Lastly summer voyages in 1896 and 1897, including the securing of the last and the largest of the great Cape-York meteorites, the 90-ton mass.
    Price £300.00
    Keywords qpolar1, polar, Arctic, expedition. S1-Arc
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