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    Reference 3838 (2453)
    Category Arctic;
    Author Tranter, G.J
    Title PLOWING THE ARCTIC.
    Publishing Information London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1944
    Description 1st Reprint (Same year as 1st Edition): 256 pages, illustrated, b/w photos, front end paper map showing route of R.C.M.P. St.Roch. Original covers in PHOTOCOPIED clipped dust jacket. Shelf wear, Gift inscription dated 1944 on half title otherwise contents clean, top of photo page 112 torn away. Covers grubby. Account of the voyage through the North-West Passage from West to East of the St. Roch, Henry A. Larsen,Commander. The first boat to complete this journey in that direction. The St. Roch, Captained by Larsen in 1940-1944 to complete the Northwest Passage from the West to the East and would become the first to have traversed the continent in both directions.
    Price £2.50
    Keywords polar,qpolarq, arctic, polarbook, S1-Arc
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