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    Category General Polar;
    Author Hartwig, George
    Title THE POLAR WORLD: A Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the Globe.
    Publishing Information London: Longmans,Green, and Co. 1869.
    Description 1st UK Edition: [2 publishers advertisements], xviii, 548 pages. Illustrated, 8 plates, 3 maps, numerous woodcuts. Brown cloth covers with gilt vignette of sldge to front cover and titling to spine, black end papers with contemporary booksellers stamp to front end paper. Describing the Polar World at that time including principal natural features, influence of its long winter-night and fleeting summer on the development of flora and fauna, and how man survives the climate as the inhabitant or as the explorer. Covers bumped and beginning to fray, pages slightly warped and some beginning to loosen, age toning, some spotting, foxing, pencil annotations.
    Price £75.00
    Keywords qpolarq, polar, eskimos, reindeer, polar bear S1-Pol
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