Polar Books Catalogue

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    Reference 2630 (828)
    Category Arctic;
    Author Nansen, Fridtjof
    Title HUNTING AND ADVENTURE IN THE ARCTIC: Fully illustrated from drawings by the Author.
    Publishing Information London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1925,
    Description 1st uk Edition; 462pp., illustrated, portrait frontispiece, full page plates, text illustrations and maps. The copyright page contradicts the title page stating that this copy was "printed in the United States" with copyright held by Duffield and Company. Green cloth covers with colophon of publishers to front cover and titling to spine, School vignette on front cover and contemporary school presentation bookplate on fep. Arc Bib 11991 Retrospective account of the author's first trip to the Arctic in the sealer "Viking" 1882, to study animal life and the physical features of the arctic sea. Descriptions of the voyage in Greenland Sea, of seals, whales, polar bears and hunting adventures, and the drift of the "Viking" in Denmark Strait. Damp damage to cover and eps, rear hinge split, contents clean. Fair.
    Price £25.00
    Keywords qpolarq, polar S1-Arc
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