Polar Books Catalogue
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Sections : Antarctic; Arctic; Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society; Maps; Miscellaneous; Mountaineering; General Polar; Scott; Other travel; Whaling;
Reference 2148 (532) Category General Polar; Author Greely, A.W Major-General Title THE POLAR REGIONS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: THEIR DISCOVERY AND INDUSTRIAL EVOLUTION. Publishing Information Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1928. Description 1st Edition; x, 270pp, illustrated, 28 b/w illustrations, Blue cloth covers with blue titling. An account of "the discovery and industrial evolution" of the Polar regions by a Civil War hero & North polar explorer who eventually was responsible for laying thousands of miles of telegraph cable in the U.S. Signal Corp. Greely covers Arctic discoveries prior to 1800; the Northwest Passage; Bering Sea; Arctic Alaska and Polar Canada; Kane Sea; Greenland; Iceland; Arctic Asia; etc. [Ricks: p.112]. Ex Libris, library number to spine, library stamps, some erased by black ink, to page edges, prelims and rear ep. Old sellotape repairs to title page. Shelfware, spine loosening, pages loosening at beginning of book, lacking coloured map at end of book. Fair Price £15.00 Keywords qpolarq S1-Pol ISBN Add this to your basket