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    Reference 1818 (2369)
    Category Arctic;
    Author Banks, Michael and Erskine, Angus
    Title HIGH ARCTIC: The Story of the British North Greenland Expedition.
    Publishing Information London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1957.
    Description 1st Edition; xii, 276 pages, illustrated, colour frontispiece, 22 b/w photographs, bw illustrations by Lilas Stirling chapter headings, 9 maps. Original covers in PHOTOCOPIED dust jacket, previous owners signature dated 1966 on verso front cover and thinning paper area on front end paper otherwise contents clean. Michael Banks was a Royal Marine Captain and mountaineer, he was Team Leader of the British North Greenland Expedition of 1952-54, one of the largest and most complex scientific expeditions sent to the Arctic since the turn of the century. As part of the program, Banks led one of the Weasel (snow tractor) Teams on an expedition across the Greenland ice sheet, a distance of some 800 miles.
    Price £15.00
    Keywords BNGE, greenland, polar, north pole S1-Arc
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