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    Reference 1817 (2432)
    Category Arctic;
    Author Banks, Michael and Erskine, Angus
    Title HIGH ARCTIC: The Story of the British North Greenland Expedition. With Four Chapters by Angus Erskine.
    Publishing Information London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1957.
    Description 1st Edition; xii, 276 pages, illustrated, colour frontispiece, 22 b/w photos, b/w drawings, chapter headings by Lilas Stirling, 9 maps. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Michael Banks, a Royal Marine Captain and mountaineer, 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. Some foxing, mainly to prelims, previous owners signature, badly scrawled out in pen on front end paper otherwise contents clean. Dust jacket stained on reverse of spine.
    Price £15.00
    Keywords BNGE, greenland, polar, north pole S1-Arc
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